The Mysterious Wobble Of Muons

You might think that particle physicists would be sad when an experiment comes up with different results than their theory would predict, but nothing brightens up a field like unexplained …read more

The Russian Woodpecker: Official Bird Of The Cold War Nests In Giant Antenna

On July 4th, 1976, as Americans celebrated the country’s bicentennial with beer and bottle rockets, a strong signal began disrupting shortwave, maritime, aeronautical, and telecommunications signals all over the world. …read more

The ARMv9 ISA, And What It Can Do For You

The number of distinct ARM Instruction Set Architectures (ISA) versions has slowly increased, with Arm adding a new version every few years. The oldest ISA version in common use today …read more

South Australia Vs. Too Much Home Solar

Once upon a time, the consensus was that renewable energy was too expensive and in too sparse supply to be a viable power source to run our proud, electrified societies …read more

Reinventing The Wheel

You’ve got a perfectly working software library to do just exactly what you want. Why aren’t you using it? Some of you are already yelling something about NIH syndrome or …read more

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Mind-Controlled Flamethrower

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By Bryan Cockfield | May 12, 2021

Mind control might seem like something out of a sci-fi show, but like the tablet computer, universal translator, or virtual reality device, is actually a technology that has made it …read more
Testing 3D Printed Worm Gears

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By Lewin Day | May 12, 2021

Worm gears are great if you have a low-speed, high-torque application in which you don’t need to backdrive. [Let’s Print] decided to see if they could print their own worm …read more
Play Your Favorite Nokia Game On The Raspberry Pi Pico

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By Lewin Day | May 11, 2021

In many people’s memories, Snake lived and breathed on Nokia handsets from the late 90s and early 2000s. However, the game has been around for much longer than that, and will …read more
Simple GUI Menus In Micropython

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By Chris Lott | May 11, 2021

Love ’em or hate ’em, sometimes your embedded project needs a menu system. Rather than reimplement things each and every time, [sgall17a] put together a simple GUI menu system in …read more
The Coffee Must Flow: Replacing A Spent Lithium Cell In A Coffee Machine

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By Maya Posch | May 11, 2021

When [hacky] bought a used Douwe Egberts Gallery 200 all-in-one coffee maker, the machine was known to have a ’empty battery’. Being one of those fancy coffee makers that handle …read more
Guitar With Hot-Swappable Pickups Lights Our Fire

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By Kristina Panos | May 11, 2021

There’s a story that goes something like this: Chet Atkins was playing his guitar when someone remarked, ‘that guitar sounds great!’ Mr. Atkins immediately stopped playing and asked, ‘how does …read more
DIN Rails For… Everything

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By Al Williams | May 11, 2021

One of the great things about the Internet is it lets people find out what other people are doing even if they normally wouldn’t have much exposure to each other. …read more

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