Collaborate Disseminate
Vacuum tubes are pretty, which is why they’re often showcased externally on exquisitely-expensive home Hi-Fi hardware. But if you just want to gaze at their beauty without making any noise, …read more Continue reading Building a Giant Vacuum Tube Smart Lamp
For many of us, the most difficult aspect of a project comes when it’s time to document the thing. Did you take enough pictures? Did you remember all the little …read more Continue reading Tricorder Tutorial isn’t Just for Starfleet Cadets
If you’ve never heard of Aerial Imaging by Retro-Reflection, or AIRR for short, you’re probably not the only one. It’s a technique developed by researchers at Utsunomiya University that uses …read more Continue reading Clever Optics Make Clock’s Digits Float in Space
[Koraks tinkers] was gifted a gargantuan photographic enlarger, a Durst Laborator 138 s, which is a unit designed specifically for black and white usage only. This was not good enough …read more Continue reading Converting A B&W Exposer Head For Colour Analog Photo Printing
What do you do with a Hue smart lightbulb? Well, if you are [Chris Greening], you take it apart and get hacking. If you ever wondered what’s inside, the teardown …read more Continue reading Hacking Hue Lightbulbs
Even if surface-mount skills aren’t in your repertoire, chances are pretty good that most of us are at least familiar with SMD stencils. These paper-thin laser-cut steel sheets are a …read more Continue reading LED Matrix Displays Get New Look Thanks to SMD Stencils
Sometimes, finding new ways to use old hardware requires awesome feats of reverse engineering, software sleight of hand, and a healthy dose of good fortune. Other times, though, it’s just …read more Continue reading Smooth Animations, Slick Bar Graphs, but No Custom Characters on This 16×2 OLED
[Elenavercher] loves engaging her primary school students, inspiring their imagination as well as teaching them the design thinking process. She has found that the very accessible rapid prototyping culture of …read more Continue reading micro:bit Brings 3D Printed Magic Lanterns to Life
We’re not sure, but the number of recognizable alphanumeric characters that a seven-segment display can manage seems to have more to do with human pattern recognition than engineering. It takes …read more Continue reading IOT Message Board Puts Fourteen-Segment Displays to Work
You’ve probably seen three-way bulbs. You know, the ones that can go dim or bright with each turn of a switch. [Brian Dipert] wondered how the LED version of these …read more Continue reading Three Way LED Bulb Gives Up Its Secrets