Collaborate Disseminate
[My Engines] has been doing some sterling work on Stirling engines for some years now. Their thermoacoustic engine is now finally far enough along to open-source, so the magic of …read more Continue reading If You Like The Sound of a Thermoacoustic Stirling Engine, Check Out These Plans
Ford does sell an electric pickup, but not very many of them. We can’t say for sure, but it’s possible that if the F150 Lightning had the classic cool of …read more Continue reading Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes the EV We Want
Fruit bowls have an unavoidable annoyance– not flies and rotten fruit, those would be avoidable if your diet was better. No, it’s that the bowl is never the right size. …read more Continue reading Perfecting the Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl
Last year, we brought you a story about the BhangmeterV2, an internet-of-things nuclear war monitor. With a cold-war-era HSN-1000 nuclear event detector at its heart, it had one job: announce …read more Continue reading Replicating a Nuclear Event Detector For Fun and Probably Not Profit
Ever since 3D printing has become a popular tool, the question of waste has been looming in the background. The sad reality of rapid prototyping is that you’re going to …read more Continue reading Hands on with Creality’s new M1 Filament Maker
There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking. [ETA Prime] on YouTube seems to think we’ve reached that …read more Continue reading Are We Finally At The Point Where Phones Can Replace Computers?
IBM Selectric typewriters have a lot of unique parts that can be tricky to source, but one we didn’t think of was the clear acrylic(?) dust covers, that are apparently …read more Continue reading Clear Resin Casting Replicates Old Acrylic for Selectric Repair
After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, …read more Continue reading The “Tin Blimp” Was a Neither Tin Nor a Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story
When Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered, it created a bit of a kerfuffle when it was reported it had a couple-percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. At …read more Continue reading The Moon is Safe, For Now: No Collision in 2032 After All
A long winter has a way of making a lot of us northerners a little bit squirrly. In [Build N Pulsejets]’s case, squirly enough to mount a home-made propane-powered pulse-jet …read more Continue reading Pulse Jet Ski Chases the Winter Blues Away