Collaborate Disseminate
Making nylon plastic from raw chemicals used to be a very common demo; depending where and when you grew up, you may well have done it in high school or …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: Beaker to Benchy More Bothersome than Believed
Indycar Racing 2 was a good game, back in 1995; in some ways, it was the Crysis of the Clinton years, in that most mortals could not run it to …read more Continue reading Game of Theseus Gets Graphics Upgrade, Force Feedback 30 Years On
Every Boy Scout or Girl Guide probably had the experience of building a simple solar oven: an insulated box, some aluminum foil, and plastic wrap, and voila! On warm, sunny, …read more Continue reading A Solar Oven for Cloudy Days
Bismuth is known for a few things: its low melting point, high density, and psychedelic hopper crystals. A literal deep-dive into any molten metal would be a terrible idea, regardless …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive into Molten Bismuth
The fact that there exist in our world flat rocks that make lightning when you point them at the sun is one of the most unappreciated bits of wizardry in …read more Continue reading After Trucking Them Home, Old Solar Panels Keep On Trucking
The idea of gamifying all the things might have died down now that the current hype is shoving AI into all the things — but you’ve probably never seen it …read more Continue reading EmuDevz is Literally a Software Game
Tubes! Not only is the internet a series of them, many projects in the physical world are, too. If you’re building anything from a bicycle to a race cart to …read more Continue reading Standalone CNC Tube Cutter/Notcher Does it With Plasma
Anyone into retro Macintosh machines has probably heard of BlueSCSI: an RP2040-based adapter that lets solid state flash memory sit on the SCSI bus and pretend to contain hard drives. …read more Continue reading BlueSCSI: Not Just for Apple
Everyone loves colourful 3D prints, but nobody loves prime towers, “printer poop” and all the plastic waste associated with most multi-material setups. Over the years, there’s been no shortage of …read more Continue reading SLM Co-extruding Hotend Makes Poopless Prints
Researchers call it “hallucination”; you might more accurately refer to it as confabulation, hornswaggle, hogwash, or just plain BS. Anyone who has used an LLM has encountered it; some people …read more Continue reading Your LLM Won’t Stop Lying Any Time Soon