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There’s a point in a component’s thermal regime that’s between normal operation and overloaded to the point of obvious failure. That’s a dangerous region, because the component isn’t quite hot …read more Continue reading Thermochromic Treatment Keeps Solderless Breadboards Smokeless
A Model T Ford customer could famously get their car “in any color he wants, so long as it’s black.” Thus begins a deep dive into the history of car …read more Continue reading Watching Paint Dry for Over 100 Years
[RyderCalmDown] was watching a road painting vehicle lay down fresh stripes on the road one day and started thinking about the mechanism that lets it paint stripes in such a …read more Continue reading Is This The World’s Largest Dot Matrix Printer?
I didn’t intend to write another article like We Need to Talk About Microsoft Word (Premium) at all, let alone so quickly, but then Microsoft has been busy ruining Paint since it released Windows 11. And in recent days, it has gotten even worse.
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Traditional paint gets it color from synthetic pigments, which fade over time and aren’t very eco-friendly. There may soon be a better alternative, though, in the form of a paint which incorporates color-producing nanostructures.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Bio-inspired “plasmonic paint” could make regular paint a thing of the past
Last year, engineers at Purdue University used their expertise in materials science to produce the world’s whitest paint, with an ability to reflect around 98% of incoming sunlight and therefore holds great potential when it comes to energy efficiency … Continue reading World’s whitest paint is now thin enough to coat cars and planes
How can the big box store mix the perfect shade of English Wedgwood right before your eyes? The answer is in highly-concentrated pigments that come in many different sizes up …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Turning Big Box Trash Into Art Student Treasure
We’ve all learned in primary school art classes that blue and yellow make green, and that adding a little black to a color will make it darker. But what if …read more Continue reading The M5Stack Color Maker Can Mix Paint to Match Your Subject
In Banksy’s book, Wall and Piece, there is a very interesting quote; “Imagine a city where graffiti wasn’t illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked…”. This sounds …read more Continue reading Automate your Graffiti with the Graffomat!
As cool as resin-based 3D printers are, they’re not without their shortcomings. One sore point, especially for those looking to document their prints, is that the translucent resins often favored …read more Continue reading Resin 3D Prints Get a New Look with Paint Injection