Collaborate Disseminate
It might seem like 3D printing is a thoroughly modern technology, but the fact is, it’s been used in the industry for decades. The only thing that’s really new is …read more Continue reading Learning 3D Printing Best Practices from a Pro
We’ve all tangled with unwelcome plant life at one point or another. Whether crabgrass infested your lawn, or you were put on weeding duty in your grandfather’s rose patch, you’ll …read more Continue reading Smoke Some Weeds: Lasers Could Make Herbicide Obsolete
As the race towards the first commercially viable nuclear fusion reactor heats up, the UK-based Tokamak Energy has published a paper on its recent achievements with its ST40 spherical tokamak. …read more Continue reading The UK’s ST40 Spherical Tokamak Achieves Crucial Plasma Temperatures
If you’ve seen the John Wick movies, you’ve probably had to suspend your disbelief about many things, but the bulletproof suits are perhaps the hardest thing to swallow. They look …read more Continue reading The Real John Wick-Style Bullet Proof Suit
Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can …read more Continue reading Self-Healing Concrete: What Ancient Roman Concrete Can Teach Us
Those of us who build our own electronics should have some idea of the process used to assemble modern surface-mount printed circuit boards. Whether we hand-solder, apply paste with a …read more Continue reading Tour A PCB Assembly Line From Your Armchair
On the technology spectrum, railroads would certainly seem to skew toward the brutally simplistic side of things. A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to …read more Continue reading Feeling the Heat: Railway Defect Detection
In our previous article on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route the signals coming out of a BGA package. But designing …read more Continue reading Working with BGAs: Soldering, Reballing, and Rework
PCIe, also known as PCI-Express, is a highly powerful interface. So let’s see what it takes to hack on something that powerful. PCIe is be a bit intimidating at first, …read more Continue reading PCIe For Hackers: The Diffpair Prelude
Last year, I found myself compelled to make a scaled-down replica of the iconic test chamber signs from the video game Portal. If you’ve played the game, you’ll remember these …read more Continue reading A Hacker’s Introduction to DIY Light Guide Plates