Collaborate Disseminate
Why do we build radios or clocks when you can buy them? Why do we make LEDs blink for no apparent purpose? Why do we try to squeeze one extra …read more Continue reading Strange Computer Languages: A Hacker’s Field Guide
Nuclear war was very much a front-of-mind issue during the fraught political climate of the Cold War era. Since then, atomic sabre rattling has been less frequent, though has never …read more Continue reading Would Nuclear Winter Cancel Out Global Warming?
While wireless communications are unquestionably useful in projects, common wireless protocols such as WiFi and Bluetooth peter out after only a number of meters, which is annoying when your project …read more Continue reading Casually Chirping Into The World Of LoRaWAN
The buzzword of the moment in the frothier portions of the technology press is inescapable: “Web 3”. This is a collective word for a new generation of decentralised online applications …read more Continue reading Unpicking The Hype Around Web 3, What’s The Tech?
I’ve been following the development of KiCAD for a number of years now, and using it as my main electronics CAD package daily for a the last six years or …read more Continue reading KiCAD 6.0: What Made It and What Didn’t
A couple of weeks ago when it emerged that a new Tesla might have a four-wheel steering capability, our colleague Dan Maloney mused aloud as to how useful a four-wheel …read more Continue reading Four Wheel Steering, Always The Option, Never The Defining Feature
In many ways, the human body is like any other machine in that it requires constant refueling and maintenance to keep functioning. Much of this happens without our intervention beyond …read more Continue reading Regenerative Medicine: The Promise Of Undoing The Ravages Of Time
We here on Earth live at the bottom of an ocean of nitrogen. Nearly 80% of every breath we take is nitrogen, and the element is a vital component of …read more Continue reading Haber-Bosch and the Greening of Ammonia Production
Recently Amazon announced that they would be open sourcing the 3D engine and related behind their Amazon Lumberyard game tooling effort. As Lumberyard is based on CryEngine 3.8 (~2015 vintage), …read more Continue reading Open 3D Engine: Amazon’s Old Clothes Or A Game Engine To Truly Get Excited About?
After pulling late hours in my school machine shop for a few years, I couldn’t help but wonder, who measures the measurement tools? How did they come to be? I’d …read more Continue reading Books You Should Read: The Perfectionists