Collaborate Disseminate
Fresh from AliExpress, [Big Clive] got another fascinating item to tear down: a crane claw, as used in those all too familiar carnival games. These games feature a claw the …read more Continue reading How Crane Games are Playing Claw Games with the Player
Especially within the world of multi-threaded programming does atomic access become a crucial topic, as multiple execution contexts may seek to access the same memory locations at the same time. …read more Continue reading Programming Ada: Atomics and Other Low-Level Details
Owing to the wave nature of light there are many ways that such different waves can interact with each other, but also with materials. Everyone knows about reflecting light with …read more Continue reading Creating Temporal Light Reflections With Metamaterials
When [Tahmid Mahbub] recently reached for his ‘Lavolta’ BPS-305 bench supply, he was dismayed to find that despite it being a 30V, 5A-rated unit, the supply refused to output more …read more Continue reading Repairing a BPS-305 30V Bench Power Supply
Within our comfortable world of causality we expect that reactions always follow an action and not vice versa. This why the recent chatter in the media about researchers having discovered …read more Continue reading Quantum Mechanics and Negative Time With Photon-Atom Interactions
Family Solanum (nightshade) is generally associated with toxins, and for good reasons, as most of the plants in this family are poisonous. This includes some of everyone’s favorite staple vegetables: …read more Continue reading Re-engineering Potatoes To Remove Their All-Natural Toxins
Being able to 3D print FDM objects in more than one color is a feature that is rapidly rising in popularity, assisted by various multi-filament systems that allow the printer …read more Continue reading Full Color 3D Printing With PolyDye and Existing Inkjet Cartridges
Among the current challenges with creating quantum computers is that the timespan that a singular qubit remains coherent is quite limited, restricting their usefulness. Usually such qubits consist of an …read more Continue reading Creating a Mechanical Qubit that Lasts Longer Than Other Qubits
What do you do when a crowdfunded product you really liked gets cancelled? Naturally, you take the idea and build your own version of it. That’s what [Salim Benbouziyane] did …read more Continue reading The Focus Dial Never Shipped, but You Can Build One From Scratch
When ships moved from muscle- and wind power to burning coal and other fossil fuels for their propulsion, they also became significantly faster and larger. Today’s cargo ships and ferries …read more Continue reading Battery-Electric Ships: Coming Soon to a Harbor Near You?