Collaborate Disseminate
The PlayStation 5 has a very distinctive enclosure that some love and others hate. Its design certainly does not lend itself to lying on its side, even though this is …read more Continue reading Disguising The PS5 With A Custom Wood And Carbon Fiber Enclosure
One of the many advancements brought about by 3D printing is the rapid development of compliant mechanisms and flexure joints. One such example is [jicerr]’s joystick, which uses a pair …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Joystick Using Spherical Flexure Joint
Getting started with model rocketry is relatively cheap and easy, but as you move up in high power rocketry, there are a few hoops to jump through. To be able …read more Continue reading A High Power Wood Rocket In 5 Days
It’s difficult to tell with our dull human senses, but everything around us is vibrating. Sure it takes more energy to get big objects like bridges and houses humming compared …read more Continue reading With a Big Enough Laser, the World is Your Sensor
In response to an online discussion on the Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange, [Joseph Eoff] decided to prove his point by slapping together a bare-bones IV curve tracer using an Arduino …read more Continue reading Rodriguez — IV Curve Tracer on the Cheap
Who wouldn’t want an autonomous drone to deliver cans of fizzy drink fresh from the fridge? [Alex Toussaint] did, and in thinking how such a machine might work he embarked …read more Continue reading A Phased-Array Ultrasonic 3D Scanner From Scratch
When [hacky] bought a used Douwe Egberts Gallery 200 all-in-one coffee maker, the machine was known to have a ’empty battery’. Being one of those fancy coffee makers that handle …read more Continue reading The Coffee Must Flow: Replacing A Spent Lithium Cell In A Coffee Machine
Your smartphone might be able to tell you what the weather is like outside, but you’d have to go outside yourself to really feel it. To do this from the …read more Continue reading Feel What The Temperature Is Like Outside Without Leaving Your Bed
The plethora of wireless communications technologies have cut the comms wire for many applications, but these devices still require power. For home automation, this might mean a battery or mains …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering Self-Powered Wireless Switches
Old CRT computer enthusiast [x86VileR] recently tracked down an IBM 5153 monitor for which he had been searching several years. Unfortunately shipping a heavy glass CRT isn’t easy. In fact, …read more Continue reading Shipping a CRT: Lessons Learned