In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles.

Want to feel the heat of nearby fire, explosions, or radiation? Or even just the gentle warmth and breeze of a sunny day in the wasteland? If you said yes, you’re in luck because [GingasVR] ...

A typical response to the previous article on why PLA filament is so darn brittle. This has led some people to not use PLA ...

Humanoid robots, even scaled-down ones, tend to be expensive. The Berkeley Humanoid Lite offers a more accessible and economical option by centering the design around 3D printed actuators that make up ...

After just a little over 25 years of the Haiku project trying to keep the BeOS spirit alive, the team has now released Beta 6 ...

In the business world, a moat is a quality of a business that makes it difficult for competitors to take that company’s profits. With how hard it is to train models for large language models (LLMs) ...

The Claymore mine is a rather fearsome weapon of war, using explosives to blast a cone of shrapnel towards advancing enemies.

There’s a niche genre of text adventure that’s halfway between a traditional novel and a videogame. Think Zork if it had an extra few novels worth of words of well-crafted story to go with the action.

Modern heat pumps, of which air conditioners are a subset, seem like simple machines in theory. They just move heat from one ...

A few years ago Dyson released a desk lamp that could slide up and down, in and out, balancing itself at every position.

A piano’s internal mechanism for translating a key press into sound is surprisingly complicated. It has to do a lot of things ...

The formula of a Raspberry Pi camera is such that it’s almost a self-assembly kit of parts. Over the years we’ve seen a lot ...