Collaborate Disseminate
Here’s a historical hack for you: you have a big, rolling pressurized kettle, also known as a steam locomotive. It needs water to make up for the steam constantly chuff-chuff-chuffing …read more Continue reading Historical Hack: Henri Griffard’s Steam Injectors
Link shorteners have been a staple of the online world for over two decades now, but they’ve got some issues– for one thing, it’s totally non-transparent where the link actually …read more Continue reading Compress Links For Optimal QR Codes
Some projects seem too good to be true until you dig into it and find the secret magic that makes it all work. Take Paper Tunes by [Makestreame], a project …read more Continue reading Store Tunes on Paper and Stream Them Over LoRA
We’ve been following Canadian startup Edison Motors for some time now, but their latest offering caught us a bit off guard– their BDE-sieries truck will be offered first without the …read more Continue reading Edison Motors Offering All-Mechanical Trucks, At Least to Start
Perfection is an inherently subjective measure, in that one must choose the criteria against which to measure. A perfect circle is an absolutely rubbish octagon, for example. So when you …read more Continue reading One Man’s Perfect Retro-Style Monitor Takes All Inputs
If there’s one defining factor about 3D printing you have to account for when you’re making a design, it’s probably layer adhesion. Sure, there are a lot of factors to …read more Continue reading Laser Layers for (Almost) Isotropicly Strong Prints
In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described as r- or K-selected, depending on how they treat their offspring. An …read more Continue reading r-Selecting Tiny Probes to Shotgun Into Saturn’s Rings
In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning models can be very, very good at pattern recognition if …read more Continue reading Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them
It’s a sci-fi trope that you can ‘scan for life signs’ and detect if there are humans — or suspiciously human-shaped aliens — present, but in real life it’s harder …read more Continue reading Scanning for Lifesigns with ESP32 and Raspberry Pi
Do you remember back when electronics came in clear cases? Back around the turn of the millennium, when translucency was chic. [3DSage] sure does, which is why he went to …read more Continue reading ESP32 Music Sequencer is Clearly Nailing the Y2K Aesthetic