Collaborate Disseminate
Today’s hack is an unexpected but appreciated contribution from members of the iFixit crew, published by [Shahram Mokhtari]. This is an ROG Ally Asus-produced handheld gaming console mod that has …read more Continue reading A ROG Ally Battery Mod You Ought To Try
We’re still in the early days of modern EV infrastructure, so minor issues can lead to a full high voltage pack replacement given the lack of high voltage-trained mechanics. [Ed’s …read more Continue reading Tearing into a Sparky Sandwich
At some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, …read more Continue reading Ultimate Power: Lithium-Ion Batteries In Series
Last summer, I was hanging out with a friend from Netherlands for a week, and in the middle of that week, we decided to go on a 20 km bike …read more Continue reading Lithium-Ion Batteries Power Your Devboards Easily
Vanadium flow batteries are an interesting project, with the materials easily obtainable by the DIY hacker. To that effect [Cayrex2] over on YouTube presents their take on a small, self-contained …read more Continue reading A Vanadium Redux Flow Battery You Can Build
One of the biggest issues facing the solid-state lithium-based batteries we all depend upon is of the performance of the anode; the transport of lithium ions and minimization of dendrite …read more Continue reading Harvard claims breakthrough in anode behavior of solid state lithium batteries
We’ve all been there. You’ve cooked up some little microcontroller project, but you need to unhook it from your dev PC and go mobile. There’s just one problem — you …read more Continue reading A Simple Hack For Running Low-Power Gear From a USB Battery Pack
The revolution in portable and cordless appliances has meant that we now own far fewer mains-powered gadgets than we might once have done, but it hasn’t entirely banished the old …read more Continue reading Power Tool Packs Make a Portable Powerhouse
Even though Texas Instruments were the first company to produce an integrated circuit and a microprocessor, their success as a company in the 60s and 70s was not guaranteed. At …read more Continue reading Upgrading At Least One Component of a TI Calculator
While certain dystopian visions of the future have humans power the grid for AIs, Microsoft and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) set a machine learning system on the path of …read more Continue reading AI on the Hunt for Better Batteries