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A Pi Calculating Pi for Pi Day
What is it about pi that we humans — at least some of us — find so endlessly fascinating? Maybe…
Solar Powered Split Wireless Mechanically Keyboard
When thinking about a perfect keyboard, some of us have a veritable laundry list: split, hot-swapping, wireless, 3d printed, encoders,…
Pocket-Sized Thermal Imager
Just as the gold standard for multimeters and other instrumentation likely comes in a yellow package of some sort, there…
Cheap Camera Gives Clay-Pigeon’s-Eye View of Trap Shooting
Speaking from experience, it’s always fun to build something with the specific intention of destroying it. Childhood sessions spending hours…
Mice Play in VR
Virtual Reality always seemed like a technology just out of reach, much like nuclear fusion, the flying car, or Linux…
Three Way LED Bulb Gives Up Its Secrets
You’ve probably seen three-way bulbs. You know, the ones that can go dim or bright with each turn of a…
The Curious Etymology Of The Elements
It’s not often that the worlds of lexicography and technology collide, but in a video by the etymologist we may…
Hack Your Heathkit to Trace MOSFET Curves
has an old Heathkit model IT-1121 curve tracer, and wants to modify it so he can plot the I-V curves…
A Fancy Connected Caliper For Not A Lot
An essential for the engineer is a decent caliper, to measure dimensions with reasonable accuracy. Some of us have old-fashioned…