Collaborate Disseminate
There are all kinds of old wives’ tales surrounding proper battery use floating around in the popular culture. Things like needing to fully discharge a battery every so often, unplugging …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive on Battery Life
If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it’s the value of testing for infection at home without the need to visit a health facility. Now a series of studies have found that testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the privacy of your … Continue reading Self-testing is accurate & removes the stigma of checking for STIs
The concept of Continuous Integration (CI) is a powerful tool in software development, and it’s not every day we get a look at how someone integrated automated hardware testing into …read more Continue reading How Hardware Testing Got Plugged Into a Continuous Integration Framework
When USB first came on the scene, one of the benefits was that essentially any four conductors could get you to the point where you could send information at 12 …read more Continue reading JITX Spits Out Handy USB Cable Tester
Multimeters are indispensable tools when working on electronics. It’s almost impossible to build any but the most basic of circuits without one to test and troubleshoot potential issues, and they …read more Continue reading Your Multimeter Might Be Lying To You
There are a number of ways to efficiently and elegantly limit an LED’s brightness, but [Tommy] found that using a light pipe or diffuser can integrate better with a device, …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Light Pipe Turns Overly-Bright LED Into Design Harmony
One of the core features of the scientific community is the concept of “peer review” where any claims made by a scientist are open to be analyzed and reproduced by …read more Continue reading Peer-Reviewed Continuity Tester
There are plenty of resins advertised as being suitable for functional applications and parts, but which is best and for what purpose? According to [Jan Mrázek], if one is printing …read more Continue reading When 3D Printing Gears, It Pays To Use The Right Resin
The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a cautionary cliché, but is directly contrary to several other common sayings. In the case of [Spikee]’s planned CNC machine …read more Continue reading Testing an Inexpensive CNC Spindle
Any software that accepts user input must take some effort to sanitize incoming data, lest unexpected and unwelcome things happen. Here to make that easier is the Big List of …read more Continue reading The Big List of Naughty Strings Helps Find Those User Input Problems