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It used to be you could crack open a TV or radio and really work on the components inside. The smallest thing in there was maybe a disc capacitor a …read more Continue reading Repairing a Component on a Flex Connector
It used to be you could crack open a TV or radio and really work on the components inside. The smallest thing in there was maybe a disc capacitor a …read more Continue reading Repairing a Component on a Flex Connector
The Marimbatron is [Leo Kuipers] ‘s final project as part of the MIT “Fabacademy program” supervised by [Prof. Neil Gershenfeld] of the Center for Bits and Atoms. The course aims …read more Continue reading Marimbatron: A Digital Marimba Prototyping Project
A subset of hackers have RFID implants, but there is a limited catalog. When [Miana] looked for a device that would open a secure door at her work, she did …read more Continue reading Bespoke Implants are Real—if You put in the Time
Flexible PCBs are super-useful things, but they can have a limited fatigue life. [Carl Bugeja] has been using them to create flexible actuators, though, and he’s getting an amazing 100,000,000 …read more Continue reading Flexible Actuator Flaps For 100,000,000 Cycles Without Failure
Sometimes the journey itself is the destination. This one started when [Samy] was 10 and his mom bought a computer. He logged on to IRC to talk with people about …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Samy Kamkar’s Glowing Breath
[Carl] is always looking at making heater plates for PCB reflow and other applications. In his latest video, he shows how he is using thin flexible PCBs with adhesive backs …read more Continue reading Sticker Brings the Heat
[Carl] wanted to put his force sensors on a transparent PCB and had to ask his board vendor for a special sample. Flexible PCBs are available on transparent substrates made of PET, but they are not as common as polyimide …read more
If you think polyimide-based flexible PCBs are cool, wait until you get a load of what polymerized liquid metal networks can do.
Seems like [CNLohr] has some pretty cool friends, and he recently spent some time with a couple of them who are working with poly LMNs and finding out …read more
Continue reading Circuit Boards You Can Stretch: Liquid Metal Nanomaterials Make a Strange Flex
When thoughts turn to measuring the degree to which something bends, it’s pretty likely that strain gauges or some kind of encoders on a linkage come to mind. Things could be much simpler in the world of flex measurement, though, if [Fereshteh Shahmiri] and [Paul H. Dietz]’s capacitive multi-bend flex …read more
Continue reading Slipping Sheets Map Multiple Bends in this Ingenious Flex Sensor