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Mobile devices generally have one Achilles’ heel when it comes to computing power: thermal throttling. Outside of bul...
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FDM 3D printing is fairly messy on a molecular scale, with the filament being heated up to temperatures high enough t...
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Lots of music events these days hand out various glowing tchotchkes that flash and sync up with the performance. [Ton...
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In a recent video [Saša Karanović] revisits the DIY filament dryer that he gave a shot a couple of years ago. Back th...
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A potentiometer is a simple electrical device that allows resistance to be varied at will. Most everyone in the elect...
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Normally, when you think of a radio transmitter, you want the strongest signal and range. But if your radio operator ...
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Most people take the Moon for granted, not considering its slow cycle where the sun gradually illuminates different p...
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Once upon a time, computing was simple. You had files on a floppy disk. If you wanted to take them to a different com...
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We have probably all at some point had to replace a peripheral not because it is faulty, but because it is no longer ...
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Many of us have suffered the common experience of buying a great deal of (now very expensive) food, only to have it g...
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Custom printed circuit boards have become more and more accessible to the average hobbyist over the last decade. But ...
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Magnetic fields are all around us. We can’t really feel or see them ourselves, per se, but we can map them with the r...
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Even [maurycyz] doesn’t think it is a good idea, but it is possible to use an AVR 8-bit CPU to serve web pages. Of co...
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One of the problems with good science fiction is that it introduces us to all kinds of cool devices that we can’t act...
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Everyone loves those rather bouncy wooden lounge chairs that got popularized by a certain Swedish seller of furniture...
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If you’ve ever had a medical team investigating cardiac issues, you’ve probably had a bunch of electrodes stuck all o...
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Biofeedback is the idea of making one conscious of a biological process or feature, and then using this to try and ex...
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When the World Wide Web surged into existence during the 1990s, we were introduced to the problem of how to actually ...
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Although 1999 might still feel like yesterday for some of us, in the world of technology the intervening years are pr...
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Remember digital organizers? They were like the lower-spec version of a PDA that couldn’t really do much more than st...