Collaborate Disseminate
We are absurdly spoiled these days by our microcontrollers. Take the CH32V00X family– they’ve been immortalized by meme as “the ten cent micro” but with a clock speed of 48MHz …read more Continue reading 10 Cent Microcontroller Makes Tracker Music
If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go? Pascal? Well, there was at least one taker …read more Continue reading Web Development in… Pascal?
It’s a truism that a computer must boot before it begins to operate. Nowadays that bootstrapping process is automatic, but in the case of the very first home computers, it …read more Continue reading Give ATMega88 the Boot With This Retro Front Panel
Connectors are wonderful and terrible things. Wonderful, in that splicing wires every time you need to disassemble something is really, really annoying. Terrible in that it can be just such …read more Continue reading Avoid Missed Connections with The Connectorbook’s Web Tool
One of the hardest parts of a project — assuming it makes it that far — is finishing it up in an aesthetically pleasing manner. As they say, the devil …read more Continue reading 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Nail Your Next Decal
LED billboards are cyberpunk-dystopian enough for most, but it can get worse. For example, this project by [Concept Crafted Creations] that takes the whole concept and takes it airborn (literally) …read more Continue reading POV Globe Takes to the Skies
In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth mining– we started talking about hydrothermal fluid deposits. Hydrothermal …read more Continue reading Ore Formation: Return of the Revenge of the Fluids
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