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Building A Desk Display For Time And Weather Data

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By Lewin Day | October 2, 2025

Just about every laptop, desktop, and smartphone in your life can tell you the date, time, and current weather predictions. However, sometimes it’s nice to have simple data displayed on …read more
Building A Functional Aliens Motion Tracker

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By Lewin Day | October 2, 2025

Aliens is the second film from the legendary science-fiction series about, well… aliens. Naturally, it featured some compelling future-tech — such as the M314 Motion Tracker. [RobSmithDev] wanted to recreate …read more
How Hydraulic Ram Pumps Push Water Uphill With No External Power Input

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By Lewin Day | October 2, 2025

Imagine you have a natural stream running through a low-lying area on your farm. It’s a great source of fresh water, only you really need it to irrigate some crops …read more
Sending TOSLINK Wirelessly With Lasers

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By Lewin Day | October 2, 2025

TOSLINK was developed in the early 1980s as a simple interface for sending digital audio over fiber optic cables, and despite its age, is still featured on plenty of modern …read more
On 3D Scanners And Giving Kinects A New Purpose In Life

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By Maya Posch | October 2, 2025

The concept of a 3D scanner can seem rather simple in theory: simply point a camera at the physical object you wish to scan in, rotate around the object to …read more
The Internet We Didn’t Get

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By Bryan Cockfield | October 2, 2025

Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden in mist, or deep in the jungle. From Atlantis, Avalon, …read more
3D Print Smoothing, With Lasers

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By Fenix Guthrie | October 2, 2025

As anyone who has used an FDM printer can tell you, it’s certainly not the magical replicator it’s often made out to be. The limitations of the platform are numerous …read more

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