Collaborate Disseminate
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
Anyone who has ever snapped a chain or a crank knows how much torque a bicycle’s power train has to absorb on a daily basis; it’s really more than one …read more Continue reading PLA Gears Fail To Fail In 3D Printed Bicycle Drivetrain
The worst thing about a volume knob is that, having connected it to a computer, it might be wrong: if you’ve manually altered the volume settings somewhere else, the knob’s …read more Continue reading Motors Make the Best Knobs With SimpleFOC
The Component Abuse Challenge is dragging all sorts of old, half-forgotten hacks out of the woodwork, but this has got to be the most vintage: [KenS] started using a transformer …read more Continue reading 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Sweet Sound of a Choking Transformer