This Is What Happens When You Boil an iPhone 7
The results are not what you might expect. Continue reading This Is What Happens When You Boil an iPhone 7
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Pluto Likely Has an Ocean of Water Deep Under Its Surface
The thick, viscous ocean is right beneath its icy heart. Continue reading Pluto Likely Has an Ocean of Water Deep Under Its Surface
How Hot is Your Faucet? What Color is the Water?
How hot is the water coming out of your tap? Knowing that the water in their apartment gets “crazy hot,” redditor [AEvans28] opted to whip up a visual water temperature display to warn them off when things get a bit spicy.
This neat little device is sequestered away inside an Altoids mint tin — an oft-used, multi-purpose case for makers. Inside sits an ATtiny85 microcontroller — re-calibrated using an Arduino UNO to a more household temperature scale ranging from dark blue to flashing red — with additional room for a switch, while the 10k ohm NTC thermristor and RGB LED …read more
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Native Americans Are Resisting the Dakota Pipeline With Tech and Media Savvy
The North Dakota protests are about more than climate change and free speech. They speak to racist assumptions about who’s tech savvy and who’s not. Continue reading Native Americans Are Resisting the Dakota Pipeline With Tech and Media Savvy
Putting Sand, Water, and Metal into A 3D Print
[Adam] over at Makefast Workshop writes about some of the tests they’ve been running on their 3D printer. They experimented with pausing a 3D print midway and inserting various materials into the print. In this case, sand, water, and metal BBs.
The first experiment was a mixture of salt and water used to make a can chiller for soda or beer (the blue thing in the upper right). It took some experimentation to get a print that didn’t leak and was strong. For example, if the water was too cold the print could come off the plate or delaminate. If …read more
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Why Jupiter’s Moon Europa Is the Best Candidate For Finding Life Off Earth
Scientists think they saw vapour plumes spewing from its surface. Continue reading Why Jupiter’s Moon Europa Is the Best Candidate For Finding Life Off Earth
This Microbiologist Is Saving Wisconsin’s Poopy Beaches With DNA Sequencing
Sandra McLellan, and the School of Freshwater Sciences, are cleaning up local beaches. Continue reading This Microbiologist Is Saving Wisconsin’s Poopy Beaches With DNA Sequencing
Abolish Bottled Water
It’s about time. Continue reading Abolish Bottled Water
Enjoy The Last Throes of Summer With a Nice Pool Automation Project
[Ken Rumer] bought a new house. It came with a troublingly complex pool system. It had solar heating. It had gas heating. Electricity was involved somehow. It had timers and gadgets. Sand could be fed into one end and clean water came out the other. There was even a spa thrown into the mix.
Needless to say, within the first few months of owning their very own chemical plant they ran into some near meltdowns. They managed to heat the pool with 250 dollars of gas in a day. They managed to drain the spa entirely into the pool, but …read more
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Home Pool Added to Home Automation
Anyone who owns their own pool knows it’s not as simple as filling it up with water and jumping in whenever you want. There’s pool covers to deal with, regular cleaning with the pool vacuum and skimmers, and of course, all of the chemicals that have to be added to keep the water safe. While there are automatic vacuums, there aren’t a whole lot of options for automating the pool chemicals. [Clément] decided to tackle this problem, eliminating one more task from the maintenance of his home. (Google Translate from French.)
The problem isn’t as simple as adding a set …read more
