Exhaust Fan-Equipped Reflow Oven Cools PCBs Quickly

With reflow soldering, sometimes close is good enough. At the end of the day, the home gamer really just needs a hot plate or an old toaster oven and a calibrated Mark I eyeball to get decent results. This exhaust fan-equipped reflow oven is an attempt to take control of …read more

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2D-Scanner Records Surfboard Profiles for Posterity

[Ryan Schenk] had a problem: he built the perfect surfboard. Normally that wouldn’t present a problem, but in this case, it did because [Ryan] had no idea how he carved the gentle curves on the bottom of the board. So he built this homebrew 2D-scanner to make the job of …read more

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The Geoduck Diver

Hozoji Matheson-Margullis is widely recognized for her pummeling drum chops. But at 37, the emerging marine biologist is making waves at the forefront of Native American STEM in an age of climate change and Trump. Continue reading The Geoduck Diver

Meet the French researcher the Shadow Brokers keep calling out

The Shadow Brokers appear to be obsessed with Matthieu Suiche. A bevy of security researchers have spent time studying the mysterious group of hackers best known for leaking a cache of National Security Agency hacking tools. But Suiche is one of few analysts to have been called out by the Shadow Brokers multiple times, with the acknowledgement straddling the line between begrudging respect and reverent admiration. No one, even Suiche, understands why. A 29-year-old French security researcher and entrepreneur, Suiche is one of the foremost experts when it comes to the peculiar group.  In an effort to understand why and who The Shadow Brokers — an entity still at the center of an expansive federal counterintelligence investigation — are so enamored by his work, it’s important to understand how Suiche’s background led to this point in time.  In late July, Suiche spoke at the large Vegas-based cybersecurity conference known as BlackHat about […]

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