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Roman Telescope Saves Fuel, Doubles Mission
Contemplate the events that might end a space mission, and you might picture something dramatic: detonation on the pad, a dead guidance system, or micrometeoroids shattering delicate solar panels. Mor...
Sheety Turns Spreadsheets Into Binaries, For Some Reason
Ever wanted a spreadsheet as an executable with a built-in terminal interface? No? Well, that’s a pity because [Roberto Alsina]’s Sheety project does exactly that. Sheety compiles spreadsheet defi...
A Simple Solution for Streamlining Battery Recycling
Lithium batteries have become the backbone of many modern devices ranging from toothbrushes to semi trucks, so what are we going to do with them when these rechargeable cells finally …read more
No More Windows For The Dutch Government, Ze Kiezen Nu Linux
The events of the last few years have caused many in Europe to re-evaluate their reliance on large offshore technology companies, with a corresponding move to home-grown EU-based alternatives. It’s ...
Determining Diamond’s Properties Under Extreme Pressures
Although graphene gives diamond a solid run for its money when it comes to being the most useful assembly of carbon atoms, both have the distinct property of material scientists …read more
The Deep Magic of 3D Graphics Perspective
Many of us of a certain age will have had their first true, good 3D video game experience with Super Mario 64. Unlike previous 3D games, the camera was an …read more
Designing a Fully 3D-Printed Mechanical Calculator
Even if almost tragically impractical in a world where digital calculators are cheap as chips, mechanical calculators and their big mechanical computer brethren remain an absolute marvel of engineerin...
Improved Double-Sided Toner Transfer Method
In the era before PCB shops would make almost any PCB imaginable, as well making many other manufacturing processes for prototypes available to hobbyists, there were several ways of making …read mor...
Electromechanical TV Goes 3D with This Light-field Display
A mechanical TV — the kind that makes an image with a Nipkow disk and a single lamp with some help from persistence of vision — is easy enough to …read more
Geothermal Cooling For New York’s Subways
You might think that if you dug some tunnels down into the ground where you could be out of the sunshine, that you might find them to be relatively cool …read more
Testing Coulomb’s Law and Similar Fundamentals Yourself Remains Tricky
How easy is it to build a simple demonstration at home that proves fundamental law of physics, such as Coulomb’s inverse square law, or Maxwell’s equations? This is one of …read more
Metal Gear Solid Moves From PlayStation to ESP32
If you haven’t heard of Metal Gear, you probably haven’t played video games these last few decades. The original Metal Gear dates back to 1987 and launched on the MSX, …read more
Pitting a CFD-Optimized Toroidal Propeller Against a Conventional One
Although we often think that we got certain aspects of aerodynamics pretty much licked at this point, details like the optimal shape of a propeller remains hotly debated, both in- …read more
Two-Dimensional Material Now Easier to Manufacture
We often see scientific breakthroughs in journals or other media that’s reported on as if it’s a revolutionary technology guaranteed to reshape human existence, only to never hear about it …read...
This PICO-8 Handheld is No Fantasy
The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually the 8-bit console it pretends to …read more
Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone Gets Interferometric Imaging
Itâs been more than a year since [Henrik Forstén] built the first iteration of his synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imaging drone, and heâs certainly been productive in the meantime. Not on...
Places To Visit: Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
There are many benefits to spending time in the park, but perhaps few of them have a Hackaday angle. There’s a park in Germany you might want to make an …read more
Jet Megatextures Demo for ESP32-S3
Mipmapping is a good way to add a lot more detail to a 3D scene without overburdening the rendering hardware with detail that won’t be seen by the user. This …read more
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