Reconductoring: Building Tomorrow’s Grid Today

What happens when you build the largest machine in the world, but it’s still not big enough? That’s the situation the North American transmission system, the grid that connects power …read more

Is The Atomic Outboard An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Everyone these days wants to talk about Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) when it comes to nuclear power. The industry seems to have pinned its hopes for a ‘nuclear renaissance’ on …read more

Information Density: Microfilm And Microfiche

Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decades, this wasn’t …read more

Feline Genetics And Why Orange Cats Are The Most Special

Recently, butlers to orange-colored cats got a bit of a shock when reading the news, as headlines began to call out their fuzzy feline friends as ‘freaks of nature’ and …read more

Supercon 2024: From Consultant To Prototyper On A Shoestring Budget

Many engineers graduate from their studies and head out into the workforce, seeking a paycheck and a project at some existing company or other. Often, it’s not long before an …read more

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The GBA Console You Never Knew You Wanted

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By Tyler August | June 13, 2025

Do you like Nintendo games? How about handhelds? Do you prefer the now-venerable Game Boy Advance (GBA) to more modern platforms, but wish your aging eyes could enjoy its content …read more
Build A 400 MHz Logic Analyzer For $35

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By John Elliot V | June 12, 2025

What do you do when you’re a starving student and you need a 400 MHz logic analyzer for your digital circuit investigations? As [nanofix] shows in a recent video, you …read more
Simple Open Source Photobioreactor

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By Al Williams | June 12, 2025

[Bhuvanmakes] says that he has the simplest open source photobioreactor. Is it? Since it is the only photobioreactor we are aware of, we’ll assume that it is. According to the …read more
COTS Components Combine To DIY Solar Power Station

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By Tyler August | June 12, 2025

They’re marketed as “Solar Generators” or “Solar Power Stations” but what they are is a nice box with a battery, charge controller, and inverter inside. [DoItYourselfDad] on Youtube decided that …read more
The Billionth Repository On GitHub Is Really Shitty

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By Jenny List | June 12, 2025

What’s the GitHub repository you have created that you think is of most note? Which one do you think of as your magnum opus, the one that you will be …read more
2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Cat At The Door

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By Matt Varian | June 12, 2025

This Pet Hacks Contest entry from [Andrea] opens the door to a great collaboration of sensors to solve a problem. The Cat At The Door project’s name is a bit …read more
End Of An Era: NOAA’s Polar Sats Wind Down Operations

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By Tom Nardi | June 12, 2025

Since October 1978, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has operated its fleet of Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) — the data from which has been used for a …read more

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