Collaborate Disseminate
Quadcopters tend to have very poor efficency because of their high disk loading. High disk loading– that is, how much weight each square meter of area swept by the propellers …read more Continue reading Variable-Pitch Propellers for More Efficient Quadcopter
Odds are, if you like neon lights, you’re not thrilled with the LED faux-“neon” strips that are supposed to replace them. They’ve got their advantages, but the light quality of …read more Continue reading Bending Faux-Neon LEDs Make for Animations Glass Tubes Can’t Match
“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” — so …read more Continue reading Are We Surrendering Our Thinking To Machines?
When you’re programming microcontrollers, you’re likely to think in C if you’re old-school, Rust if you’re trendy, or Python if you want it done quick and have resources to spare. …read more Continue reading TinyGo Boldly Goes Where No Go Ever Did Go Before
There’s been a lot of virtual ink spilled in environmental circles about the cooling water requirements of data centers, but less consideration of what happens with all the heat coming …read more Continue reading The Heat Island Effect is Warming Up the AI Data Center Controversy
When the inevitable Kessler Syndrome cascade sweeps Starlink and its competitors from Low Earth Orbit in what will doubtless be a spectacular meteor shower of debris, the people behind Sceye …read more Continue reading Flying Cell Towers for Lower-Latency
There were a plethora of tiny, local ISPs in the days of dial-up internet. Along with the big providers, many cities would have more than one. Some of those have …read more Continue reading The Smallest Dialup ISP is a Raspberry Pi and a Prison Phone
For once, we can avoid debating in the comments what constitutes a “cyberdeck”, because [LCLDIY] does not refer to his cyberpunk masterpiece as such — he calls it a laptop. …read more Continue reading Open Graphics Card Powers Cyberpunk “Laptop”
Before there was pressure-treated wood, before modern paints, there was pine tar. Everything from tool handles to wagons to ships were made of wood preserved with pine tar, once upon …read more Continue reading Burning Wood to Brew Wood to Preserve Wood : Pine Tar
Over the history of this business, a lot of people have foreseen limits that look rather silly in hindsight– in 1943, IBM President Thomas Watson declared that “I think there …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: How Much Compute is Enough?