Collaborate Disseminate
Fresh off a world record for the fastest quadcopter, [Luke Bell] decided to try his luck with something more own to earth, namely trying to tackle the world record for …read more Continue reading Trying to Shatter the World’s Fastest RC Car Record
Raspberry Pi just dropped the new Raspberry Pi 500, which like its predecessor puts the similarly named SBC into a keyboard. In a detailed review and teardown video, [Jeff Geerling] …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi 500 and the Case of the Missing M.2 Slot
After recently putting together the paper tape reader for his custom tube-based UE1 computer, [David Lovett] did get squiggles on the outputs, but not quite the right ones. In the …read more Continue reading Debugging the UE1 Paper Tape Reader and Amplification Circuit
Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR) the design of their fuel rods hasn’t changed significantly. Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant zirconium alloy (zircalloy) tubes …read more Continue reading Silicon Carbide May Replace Zirconium Alloys for Nuclear Fuel Rod Cladding
Recently a company called Z-Polymers introduced its new Tullomer FDM filament that comes with a lofty bullet list of purported properties that should give materials like steel, aluminium, and various …read more Continue reading New Tullomer Filament Claims to Beat PEEK, Aluminium and Steel
We were recently notified by a reader that [Tom Evans] had filed a copyright claim against [Mark]’s repair video on his Mend it Mark YouTube channel, taking down said repair video …read more Continue reading The £25,000 Tom Evans Pre-Amp Repair and a Copyright Strike
The Apple FlatMac was one of those 1980s concepts by designer [Hartmut Esslingers] that remained just a concept with no more than some physical prototypes created. That is, until [Kevin …read more Continue reading FlatMac: Building the 1980’s Apple iPad Concept
When thinking of home computers and their portable kin it’s easy to assume that all of them provided BASIC as their interpreter, but for a while APL also played a …read more Continue reading Ampere WS-1: The Other APL Portable Computer
The difference between holography and photography can be summarized perhaps most succinctly as the difference between recording the effect photons have on a surface, versus recording the wavefront which is …read more Continue reading Holograms: the Art of Recording Wavefronts
The 20th century saw humankind’s first careful steps outside of the biosphere in which our species has evolved. Whereas before humans had experienced the bitter cold of high altitudes, the …read more Continue reading Exploring the Sounds and Sights Of Alien Worlds