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Nano-engineering happens all day long in our bodies, and California startup Aether is designing and testing millions of new enzymes to do a range of other useful tasks – like directly extracting battery-grade lithium from sources nobody else can use.Co… Continue reading Aether’s nano-machines: From super-cheap lithium to brand new molecules
In the final part of our extended chat, the CEO and co-founder of Triton Submarines takes us through some highlight dives from an extraordinary career, from salvaging the “smoking gun” from the Challenger space shuttle and filming with James Cameron, t… Continue reading Patrick Lahey interview part 3: Memorable dives from a remarkable career
It takes guts to start a company. It takes a lot more guts to start a company manufacturing cutting-edge private submarines. And as Triton’s CEO and co-founder explains, it takes even more guts to slap down your money and become the first customer.Cont… Continue reading Patrick Lahey interview part 2: Starting a new submarine company
2023 is not a good year to be running a submarine company, but we caught up with Patrick Lahey, CEO and co-founder of Florida’s Triton Submarines, for a three-part chat about a remarkable career with highlights as low as a human being can possibly go.C… Continue reading Patrick Lahey interview part 1: Birth of a submarine obsession
On a recent trip to Europe, I got in touch with the Lilium team and asked if I could come visit the company HQ outside Munich. On late notice, thanks to my slapstick organisational skills, the team went out of their way to pull together a full afternoo… Continue reading Interview: Lilium’s Daniel Wiegand on its eVTOL plans and progress
Hardware hackers of a certain age likely got started with microcontrollers via the RCA 1802 — a relatively easy-to-use processor that was the subject of several excellent articles in Popular …read more Continue reading New Zealand’s First Microcomputer May Be This 1802
Over the last 10 years, Brett Adcock has gone from founding an online talent marketplace, to selling it for nine figures, to founding what’s now the third-ranked eVTOL aircraft company, to going after one of the greatest challenges in technology: gener… Continue reading High-tech renaissance man Brett Adcock on Figure’s humanoid robots
If you’re one of the more than 180,000 subscribers to [Alan Wolke]’s YouTube channel W2AEW, you’ll know he’s a lover of old test gear and ham radio hardware. You may …read more Continue reading VCF East 2023: Alan Wolke on His Passion for Tech
While roaming the halls of Vintage Computer Festival East 2023, we ran into [Adrian Black], who was eager to talk about the importance of classic computing in his own life …read more Continue reading VCF East 2023: Adrian Black on Keeping Retro Alive
Do you know core memory? Our prehistoric predecessors would store data in the magnetic fields of ferrite rings, reading out the ones and zeroes by setting the magnetic field and …read more Continue reading VCF East 2023: Andy Geppert Talks Core Memory