Collaborate Disseminate
The worst thing about the getting people together is when everyone starts fighting over their favourite map projection– maybe you like the Watterman Butterfly, but your cousin really digs Gall-Peters, …read more Continue reading All Projections Suck, So Play Risk on a Globe Instead
Names and labels are difficult. Take this “3D Printed” water-cooling loop by [Visual Thinker] on YouTube. It undeniably uses 3D printing — but it also uses silicone casting and laser-cut …read more Continue reading PC Watercooling Uses Everything But CNC Machining
In a curious historical twist, the “Twelve days of Christmas” are actually the days of revelry that followed the 25th. The preceding period, Advent, was traditionally a fast, not unlike …read more Continue reading Twelve Days of Christmas as Performed By 1980s Speech Chip
There’s no accounting for taste, but it’s hard to argue with The Autopian when they declare that this Nixie tube dash by [David Forbes] is “the coolest speedometer of all …read more Continue reading Nixie Tube Dashboard is Period-Appropriate Hack to Vintage Volvo
We love 3D printing here, but we also love clean air, which produces a certain tension. There’s no way around the fact that printing produces various volatile organic compounds (VOCs), …read more Continue reading Breathe Easy While Printing With this VOC Calculator
You’ve probably seen Lichtenberg figures before, those lightning-like traces left by high-voltage discharge. The safe way to create them is using an electron beam to embed charge inside an acrylic …read more Continue reading Lichtenberg Lightning in a Bottle, Thanks To The Magic of Particle Accelerators
3D Printing is great, but it is pretty much the worst way to make any given part– except that every other technique you could use to make that part is …read more Continue reading Pause Print, Add Hardware, and Enjoy Strength
The “Marauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to …read more Continue reading Hardware Store Marauder’s Map is Clarkian Magic
As the saying goes — when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gives you a two-ton surplus industrial robot arm, if you’re [Brian Brocken], you apparently make …read more Continue reading Surplus Industrial Robot Becomes two-ton 3D Printer
Once upon a time, transmutation of the elements was a really big deal. Alchemists drove their patrons near to bankruptcy chasing the philosopher’s stone to no avail, but at least …read more Continue reading Neutrino Transmutation Observed For the First Time