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There are quite a few rather unconventional methods of propulsion, but perhaps one of the more curious approaches inv...
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We’ve been following Canadian startup Edison Motors for some time now, but their latest offering caught us a bit off ...
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Perfection is an inherently subjective measure, in that one must choose the criteria against which to measure. A perf...
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OLED displays solve many of the problems suffered by LC displays, including color fidelity, dynamic range and power u...
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Aside from global access to cat videos, the presence of thousands of Starlink broadband internet access satellites in...
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FTP isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology. These days, if you control both ends of a connection, you’re probably usin...
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In the 1960s, the home computer was barely a twinkle in anyone’s eye. This was the decade in which computers were use...
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These days open source is everywhere, and frankly, we couldn’t be happier about it. But even with as prevalent as ope...
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The fun thing about thermopolymers like PLA is that you can blend in additives, some of which are necessary to make i...
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Most instruments, with maybe the exception of pianos, have consumable parts. Guitars need string changes, bows need r...
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We’ve heard of wave overhangs before. It is a new technique for printing horizontal overhangs with no supports. Build...
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Usually, the name ‘Famicom’ and the associated Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) don’t exactly bring to mind downlo...
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We’re no strangers to unusual hardware failures around these parts, but even so, a swarm of jellyfish clogging up the...
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It used to be a rite of passage to build some sort of AM radio receiver. Many people started with a crystal radio, of...
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If there’s one defining factor about 3D printing you have to account for when you’re making a design, it’s probably l...
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Unlike biological systems, which can use muscles, robots that try to imitate them don’t have particularly fast, power...
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In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described as r- or K-selec...
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Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected wi...
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In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning model...
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Sometimes claimed to give you wings, energy drinks can, at the very least, be used to make rockets fly. This is what ...