Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve worked with a laser cutter before, you might not find much new in [Maker Design Lab’s] recent post about getting started. But if you haven’t, you’ll find a lot of practical advice and clean clear figures. The write up focuses on a tube-style laser cutter that uses a …read more
Oklahoma cows belch out about a half-pound of methane daily. Continue reading Scientists Use ‘Breathalyzers’ and Lasers to Measure Cow Burps and Farts
Two emerging technologies could be combined to produce a powerful infrared signal that could be spotted from distant planets, according to research in The Astrophysical Journal. Continue reading Aliens Might Notice Us if We Shot a Giant Laser at Them, Study Says
Attention: No pirates maritime wealth redistribution agents were harmed in the making of the video below.
Some projects are for work, some are for fun, and some, like this entirely 3D-printed camera pan-tilt gimbal, start out as work and then turn into fun. As professional digital FX artist [FlorianH] tells the tale, he was in need of such a rig for some motion-control work. Buying off the shelf is always an option, except when it’s boring, so [Florian] invested an untold number of hours in front of Fusion 360 meticulously designing every last part, except for some bearings, the NEMA …read more
Continue reading Pirates Don’t Stand a Chance Against This 3-D Printed Pan-Tilt Gimbal
Nikon’s Small World in Motion honors the best movie or time-lapse photography taken through a microscope. Continue reading Watch the Trippy Winners of a Microscopic Film Contest
Electricity always follows the past of least resistance, and that can make for some dangerously beautiful effects. Continue reading Watch 100,000 Volts of Electricity Course Through a Circuit Board in Slow Motion
The YouTuber ‘Styropyro’ recycles tech to turn old parts into lightsabers and laser bazookas. Continue reading This Scientist Makes the World’s Strongest DIY Lasers Out of E-Waste
In today’s healthy lifestyle oriented world, blowing smoke rings won’t impress too many people anymore. Unless of course you are [NightHawkInLight] and blow them with a vortex cannon and add lasers for visual effects. Although, his initial motivation was to build a device that could shoot lost frisbees out off the trees in his backyard disc golf course, and as avid enthusiast of shooting things through the air using a propane torch, he opted for a vortex cannon to avoid the risk of injuries shooting a projectile may cause.
With safety in mind from the beginning, [NightHawkInLight] chose to build …read more
Continue reading Blowing Rings With Cannons, Fogs, And Lasers
New, drone-frying weapon could go to sea in 2020. Continue reading The US Navy Bought Its First Big Laser Cannon
These special quantum computers are able to model physical interactions that are too complex for conventional supercomputers. Continue reading Physicists Made an Unprecedented 53 Qubit Quantum Simulator