Although 3D printing it a great tool for making all sorts of things, the nature of the plastics used in most desktop FDM ...

Have you ever looked out across the rooftops of a city and idly gazed at the infrastructure that remains unseen from the ...

Recently [Kerry Wong] had one of his Cyclenbatt LiFePO 4 batteries die after only a few dozen cycles, with a normal voltage still present on the terminals. One of the symptoms was that as soon as you ...

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Handheld consoles are great for gaming on the go, but who wants to hold onto things all the time? Would it not be easier to ...

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The Pokéwalker is a gadget that was sold alongside the Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver games for the Nintendo DS which players could use to take a Pokémon out on a walk in the real world. Not only ...

One of the nice things about magnetic storage is that as long as the magnetic layer remains intact, the data it contains ...

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If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely known is that there are ...

From outer space to down here on Earth, there are many places where ionizing radiation levels are high enough that they effectively bar access for humans, but also make life miserable for anything ...

For those of us who hack old cameras, the 3D printer has undoubtedly been a boon. High precision, or at least consistent precision, lightproof enclosures can be easily made and reproduced for others.