Collaborate Disseminate
If there’s one thing [rctestflight] likes, it’s… probably radio controlled test flights. If there are two things [rctestflights] likes, the second one is probably ground-effect vehicles, AKA Ekranoplans. Tired of …read more Continue reading What Do You Call an Ekranoplan With an Outboard Motor?
The human body and sharp objects don’t get along very well, especially when they are being wielded with ill-intent. Since antiquity there have been various forms of armor designed to …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Mail is a Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem
Rust is the new hotness in programming languages because of how solid its memory protections are. Race conditions and memory leaks are hardly new issues however, and as greybeards are …read more Continue reading There’s no Rust on this Ironclad Kernel
Algorithms? Datamining? Brainrot? You don’t need those things to have a social network. As we knew back in the BBS days, long before anyone coined the phrase “social network”, all …read more Continue reading Join the The Newest Social Network and Party Like its 1987
Have you ever imagined what the Nintendo Switch would look like if Nintendo had produced it in the mid-1990s? [Joel Creates] evidently did, because that’s exactly what this retro CRT-toting …read more Continue reading Switch Switch 2 to CRT
In this era of cheap lithium pouch cells, it might seem mildly anachronistic to build AA batteries into a project. There are enough valid reasons to do so, however, and …read more Continue reading Target the Best AA, and Take No Flak
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