Collaborate Disseminate
The lightsaber was one of the coolest and most iconic visual effects from the original Star Wars, and people have been trying to get that particular piece of movie magic …read more Continue reading Screen-Accurate Lightsaber As a Practical Effect
It’s a bit of a truism that bigger sensors lead to better pictures when it comes to photography. Of course everyone who isn’t a photographer knows that moar megapixles is …read more Continue reading Medium Format, 3 GigaPixel Camera Puts It All On the Line (Sensor)
Have you ever seen photos of retro movie sets where the cameras seem to be bedazzled with lenses? Of course you can only film via one lens at a time, …read more Continue reading Pi-Powered Camera Turns Heads and Lenses In Equal Measure
The Playstation 3 had a dizzying number of variants from its first launch in 2006 to when they stopped selling the slim models over a decade later in 2017. Of …read more Continue reading The Water-Cooled PS3 Sony Never Made
We get it, CAD software can be daunting to learn. Somehow [Boaztheostrich] found it so daunting he procrastinated his way into a AR voxel-based CAD app he calls “ABCCAD”, written …read more Continue reading ABCCAD is Voxels Meets Legos in AR
Economists have this idea that we live in an efficient market, but it’s hard to fathom that when disposable vapes are equipped with rechargeable lithium cells. Still, just as market …read more Continue reading DIY Powerwall Blows Clouds, Competition Out of the Water
To our younger readers, a car without an all-touchscreen “infotainment” system may look clunky and dated, but really, you kids don’t know what they’re missing. Buttons, knobs, and switches all …read more Continue reading Hacking Buttons Back Into the Car Stereo
There are various CAD challenges out there that come with bragging rights. Some, like the Certified Solid Works Professional Exam (CWSP) might actually look good on a resume. [Deltahedra] is …read more Continue reading SolidWorks Certification… With FreeCAD?
VGA isn’t much used anymore, but it’s not hard to get a hold of monitors with that input. How about the older standards like EGA, CGA, or MDA? Well, it’s …read more Continue reading MCE Blaster Translates TTL For Modern(ish) Monitors
Breadboards are great, but as the world moves more and more to having SMD as a standard, prototyping straight PCBs is becoming more common. If you’re mailing off to China …read more Continue reading Is This The Last PCB You’ll Ever Buy?