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The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics

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By Maya Posch | July 23, 2025

It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it instantly …read more
Annealing In Space: How NASA Saved JunoCam In Orbit Around Jupiter

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By Maya Posch | July 23, 2025

The Juno spacecraft was launched towards Jupiter in August of 2011 as part of the New Frontiers series of spacecraft, on what would originally have been a 7-year mission, including …read more
An Open Source Flow Battery

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By Aaron Beckendorf | July 23, 2025

The flow battery is one of the more interesting ideas for grid energy storage – after all, how many batteries combine electron current with fluid current? If you’re interested in …read more
Nylon-Like TPU Filament: Testing CC3D’s 72D TPU

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By Maya Posch | July 22, 2025

Another entry in the world of interesting FDM filaments comes courtesy of CC3D with their 72D TPU filament, with [Dr. Igor Gaspar] putting it to the test in his recent …read more
The Hall-Héroult Process On A Home Scale

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By Aaron Beckendorf | July 22, 2025

Although Charles Hall conducted his first successful run of the Hall-Héroult aluminium smelting process in the woodshed behind his house, it has ever since remained mostly out of reach of …read more
Video Tape Hides Video Player

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By Tyler August | July 22, 2025

While it might not be accurate to say VHS is dead, it’s certainly not a lively format. It continues on in undeath thanks to dedicated collectors and hobbyists, some of …read more
2025 One Hertz Challenge: A 555, But Not As We Know It

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By Tyler August | July 22, 2025

We did explicitly ask for projects that use a 555 timer for the One Hertz Challenge, but we weren’t expecting the 555 to be the project. Yet, here we are, …read more

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