[Ray] is in a bit of a pickle. All appeared well when he began selling an ESP8266-based product, but shortly thereafter some of them got hot and let the smoke out. Not to worry, he recommends ignoring the problem since once the faulty components have vaporized the device will be fine. The symptom lies in the […]

For nearly 130 years, the kilogram has been defined by a small platinum and iridium cylinder sitting in a vault outside Paris. Every other unit of measurement is defined by reproducible physical phenomenon; the second is a accurate number of oscillations of a cesium atom, and a meter is the length light travels in 1/299792458th of […]

now that’s uncanny. two days before [Ben Krasnow] of the applied science YouTube blog posted this video on anti-theft tags that use magnetostriction, we wrote a blog post about a firm that’s using inverse-magnetostriction to generate electricity. strange synchronicity! [Ben] takes apart those rectangular plastic security tags that end up embarrassing everyone when the sales […]

Motorcycle rally racing is a high-speed, exciting, off-road motorsport that involves zipping across all types of terrain on two wheels. While riding, it’s extremely important for riders to know what’s coming up next —  turns, straightaways, stream crossings, the list goes on. Generally, this is handled by a roadbook — a paper scroll that has […]

We have to say, [Murtaza]’s example game in his newest video isn’t very exciting. However, the OpenCV technique he uses to track a hand and identify its distance from a single video camera is pretty interesting. The demo shows a random button on the screen and you have to use your hand to press the […]

In our no-nonsense journey with the world of audio innovation we’ve so far have looked at digital audio as well as the vinyl disk recording. What’s missing? Magnetic tape, the once-ubiquitous recording medium that very first revolutionised the broadcast as well as recording markets in the mid-20th-century, as well as went on to be a […]

On December 5th, somebody by the IRC nickname of [ubuntu] joined the Pine64 Discord’s #pinephone channel with an IRC bridge. In the spirit of December gift-giving traditions, they have provided their fellow PinePhone individuals with an using – a “Snake” game. What [ubuntu] supposedly created had the prospective to ended up being a stock, out-of-the-box-installed […]