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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 ...
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Steam power is a staple of the steampunk aesthetic, thermodynamics, and a checkpoint for the budding mechanical engin...
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It’s a sci-fi trope that you can ‘scan for life signs’ and detect if there are humans — or suspiciously human-shaped ...
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[The Modern Rouge] found an old childhood friend in a closet: a Radio Shack 200-in-1 electronic kit. Along with [Josh...
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A friend from my old hackerspace was in grad school for electrical engineering. He had a professor who would ask, whe...
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Do you remember back when electronics came in clear cases? Back around the turn of the millennium, when translucency ...
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If there’s an engineer’s equivalent to those YouTube ASMR videos, then perhaps it comes in a good repair or servicing...
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Remember Animusic? They were these incredible animated music videos with original tunes being played by computer-gene...
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After the Nintendo 3DS handheld console saw most its online services including the online store (eShop) taken offline...
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Doing anything on a frozen lake can carries some amount of risk. Nevertheless, every year events ranging from car rac...
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Any parent with a baby and deep pockets– or friends with deep pockets– will probably sing the praises of the BabyBjor...
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These days, most of us interface with our computing devices in the same old-fashioned ways—via keyboards, mice, and t...
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It’s still hot on both sides of the Atlantic, but Kristina has a new secret weapon for staying cool without making no...
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[Stephen] had an interesting piece of hardware at home—namely, a Flume water monitor. It’s a smart device which repor...