Chocolate-Coating Machine Mk. 2: the Merry-Go-Round Kristina Panos | usagoldmines.com
This holiday season, wanted to continue his family’s tradition of enrobing a little bit...
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The Japanese Console You Maybe Haven’t Heard Of Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
The games consoles which came out of Japan in the 1980s are the stuff of...
Homebrew Phosphorescence Detector Looks for the Glow in Everyday Objects Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
Spoiler alert: almond butter isn’t phosphorescent. But powdered milk is, at least to the limit...
Even Apple Get Their Parts Wrong Sometimes Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
There can be few among those of us who produce printed circuit boards, who have...
A Look Under the Hood of Intermediate Frequency Transformers Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
If you’ve been tearing electronic devices apart for long enough, you’ll know that the old...
DIY Pipe Inspector Goes Where No Bot Has Gone Before Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
If you think your job sucks, be grateful you’re not this homebrew sewer inspection robot....
Would an Indexing Feature Benefit Your Next Hinge Design? Donald Papp | usagoldmines.com
of Maker’s Muse has a video with a roundup of different 3D-printable hinge designs,...
FLOSS Weekly Episode 811: Elixir & Nerves – Real Embedded Linux Jonathan Bennett | usagoldmines.com
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Lars Wikman chat about Elixir and Nerves — a modern...
Could Nuclear Be The Way To Produce Synthetic Fuel On The Cheap? Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Fossil fuels can be a bit fussy to access, and geopolitics tends to make prices...
Retrotechtacular: The Deadly Shipmate Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
During World War II, shipboard life in the United States Navy was a gamble. No...
Boss Byproducts: Corium Is Man-Made Lava Kristina Panos | usagoldmines.com
So now we’ve talked about all kinds of byproducts, including man-made (Fordite), nature-made (fulgurites), and...
Life Found On Ryugu Asteroid Sample, But It Looks Very Familiar Donald Papp | usagoldmines.com
Samples taken from the space-returned piece of asteroid Ryugu were collected and prepared under strict...
Getting Started In Laser Cutting Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
If you were to walk into most of the world’s hackerspaces, it’s likely that the...
Massive Mural from Thermal Receipt Paper Heidi Ulrich | usagoldmines.com
Turning trash into art is something we undoubtedly all admire. did just that...
Your Undocumented Project May Also Baffle People Someday Donald Papp | usagoldmines.com
What’s life without a little mystery? There’s one less rolling around after historians finally identified...
A Robot Meant for Humans Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
Although humanity was hoping for a more optimistic robotic future in the post-war era, with...
A Laser with Mirrors makes a CRT-like Display Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
’s laser-based display pretending to be a an old-school vector CRT. Phosphor-based displays like CRTs...
Alternatives Don’t Need to be Bashed Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
By default, bash is the most popular command language simply because it’s included in most...
Linux Fu: Audio Network Pipes Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
Life was simpler when everything your computer did was text-based. It is easy enough to...
Recreating Unobtainium Weather Station Sensors Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Imagine you own a weather station. Then imagine that after some years have passed, you’ve...