Motorized Camera Slider Rides on Carbon

While not every camera mount needs to have six degrees of freedom, one or two Read More →

The Neo6502 is a Credit-Card Sized Retro Computer

The venerable MOS Technology 6502 turned up in all kinds of computers and other digital Read More →

Copper Be Gone: The Chemistry Behind PCB Etching

For a lot of reasons, home etching of PCBs is somewhat of a dying art. Read More →

3D Printed Engine Gets Carburetor

3D printed materials have come a long way in the last decade or so as Read More →

Converting Wind to Electricity or: The Doubly-Fed Induction Generator

Humanity has been harvesting energy from the wind for centuries. The practice goes back at Read More →

The 2003 Northeast Blackout and the Harsh Lessons of Grid Failures

The grid failure in 2003 which reverted much of the eastern US and Canada back Read More →

Blame It on the Sockets: Forensic Analysis of the Arecibo Collapse

Nearly three years after the rapid unplanned disassembly of the Arecibo radio telescope, we finally Read More →

Take a PEEK at this 3D Printer

Normally, when you think of PEEK in 3D printing, you think of a part made Read More →

When Does Impedance Matching a PCB Trace Become Unavoidable?

A common joke in electronics is that every piece of wire and PCB trace is Read More →

Linux on a Commodore 64

We are used to seeing Linux running on almost everything, but we were a bit Read More →

Accurate Cycle Counting on RP2040 MicroPython

The RP2040 is a gorgeous little chip with a well-defined datasheet and a fantastic price Read More →

Microsoft Discontinues Kinect, Again

The Kinect is a depth-sensing camera peripheral originally designed as a accessory for the Xbox Read More →

Bypassing Bitlocker with a Logic Analzyer

Security Engineer [Guillaume Quéré] spends the day penetration testing systems for their employer and has Read More →

Next-Gen Autopilot Puts a Robot at the Controls

While the concept of automotive “autopilots” are still in their infancy, pretty much any aircraft Read More →

Flexure PCB Actuators Made Before Your Very Eyes

When we see something from [Carl Bugeja], we expect to see flexible PCBs and magnets Read More →

Doppler Speed Sensor Puts FFT and AGC to Work

Some people hate to revisit projects that are done and dusted. We get that; it’s Read More →

This Car Has Wooden Performance

If you were to take a look at the car parked closest to where you Read More →

Wooden Wide-Angle Wonder Wows World

An old-fashioned film camera can be an extremely simple device to make, in that as Read More →

SLR to DSLR Conversion Becomes Full Camera

At least as far as the inner workings are concerned, there’s not a whole lot Read More →

Random Access Memory From a Rotating Drum in a Bendix G15

When it’s the 1950s and you are tasked to design a computer system that features Read More →

Where Did Your PCB Go Wrong? KiRI knows

When working on a PCB design in KiCad, it’s helpful that the files are all Read More →

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