Entries
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Recently thermal power stations have been in the news quite a bit, mostly in the context of them being throttled back...
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Lightning, despite being a common and readily-detected phenomenon, is nevertheless difficult to study. One reason is ...
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Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can’t help but keep fal...
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As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic...
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If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moo...
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Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the product...
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Sometimes you see a project just staring at you with proverbial puppy dog eyes and you just cannot look away. In the ...
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It’s often claimed that wearable devices cannot have user-replaceable batteries or even be serviceable at all due to ...
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Transmitting analog video via photons is old hat: that’s how everything started, after all, back in the day with over...
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[Jan] of [Roetz 4.0] has a unique approach to multi-material 3D printing: he’s designed an extruder which takes two d...
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You’ve almost certainly heard of the Xerox Alto, the machine that pioneered the desktop-mouse-keyboard interface and ...
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For whatever reason, [Jeremy] wants to photograph bees in flight. This is one of those things that doesn’t seem that ...
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Paper as a substrate for electronic circuits is not very common, but promising for flexible circuits with low cost an...
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Avian Visitors is a lovely project by [Teddy Warner] that uses a Raspberry Pi and microphone to keep track of which b...
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If you’ve ever worked with produce, you might know about grading. In addition to deciding if, say, a strawberry is go...
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As someone who disassembles and repairs hardware, [Aad] eventually ended up with a huge collection of mixed bolts and...
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We all have that bin in the corner of our shops — the one with all the circuit boards or broken electronics that we a...
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There was a particular treat at the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, as [Tim Hunkin] delivered a talk on...
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With a title like “Intel Just Matched Apple Silicon. Seriously.“, the latest video from [Jeff Geerling] makes some pr...
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[Leaded Solder] took on an interesting challenge. The BBC, apparently, produced a game console known as the BBC Bridg...