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A good shower is a beautiful, rejuvenating experience. Contrarily, a shower that’s either too hot or too cold becomes a harrowing trial of endurance. [Ben Holmen] has been musing on …read more Continue reading A Call For Better Shower Temperature Controls
Need to cut threads into a hole? A tool called a tap is what you need, and a hand-operated one like the one shown here to the side is both economical and effective. A tap’s cutting bit works by going into a pre-drilled hole, and it’s important to keep the …read more
Continue reading A Bit of DIY Helps Cut Straight and Happy Threads
We usually think of the RTL-SDR as a low-cost alternative to a “real” radio, but this incredible project spearheaded by [Rodrigo Freire] shows that the two classes of devices don’t have to be mutually exclusive. After nearly 6 months of work, he’s developed and documented a method to integrate a …read more
If you want to make serious assemblies out of 3D printed parts, you’ll eventually need to deal with threading. The easiest way is to make a nut trap that you can either insert a standard nut into after printing or even during printing. However, there are limitations to this method. …read more
Wood can be the material of choice for many kinds of projects, but it often falls out of the running in favor of metal or plastic if it needs to take a threaded fastener. But with a little ingenuity you can make your own wood taps and cut threads that will perform great.
Making wood do things that wood isn’t supposed to do is [Matthias Wandel]’s thing. Hackers the world over know and use his wood gears designer to lay out gears for all kinds of projects from musical marble machines to a wooden Antikythera mechanism. Woodworkers have been threading …read more
At Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Atlanta today Microsoft announced several new tools and services that are based on their cloud intelligence platform.
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Alexa in your pocket. Or at least your overnight bag. The post Review: Amazon Tap appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Review: Amazon Tap
Experienced administrators at companies that decide to move some workload from on-premises to the cloud are confronted by many challenges. I’ve covered some of those in recent posts, such as the lack of advanced training and figuring out how to cope with service outages.
Continue reading Comparing Office 365 releases to the measured pace of on-premises software
