1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (41+ words) If there's one defining factor about 3D printing you have to account for when you're making a design, it's probably layer adhesion. Sure, there are a lot of factors to consider, but having the z-axis......

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (29+ words) Unlike biological systems, which can use muscles, robots that try to imitate them don’t have particularly fast, powerful, compact linear actuators available. This puts walking robots at a particul......

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (290+ words) Hackaday In ecology, there used to be a concept — now largely unfashionable — that species could be described as r- or K-selected, depending on how they treat their offspring An elephant that has one calf every few years and devotes…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (27+ words) Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex digital buses, and dozens (perhaps hundreds) of......

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (335+ words) Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them Hackaday In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning models can be very, very good at pattern…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (32+ words) Steam power is a staple of the steampunk aesthetic, thermodynamics, and a checkpoint for the budding mechanical engineer studying heat cycles. But because food is largely made of water, steam is also......

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (42+ words) It's a sci-fi trope that you can 'scan for life signs' and detect if there are humans -- or suspiciously human-shaped aliens -- present, but in real life it's harder than that. [The Masked Bear]'s wif......

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (181+ words) [The Modern Rouge] found an old childhood friend in a closet: a Radio Shack 200-in-1 electronic kit. Along with [Josh Nass], he put it through its paces and made a few repairs along the way. As you might expect, the…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (33+ words) A friend from my old hackerspace was in grad school for electrical engineering. He had a professor who would ask, when something went wrong with a student project, “Have you fully characterized the......

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (36+ words) Do you remember back when electronics came in clear cases? Back around the turn of the millennium, when translucency was chic. [3DSage] sure does, which is why he went to great lengths to make a clear......