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] ...

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

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

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

In a move that’s no doubt going to trigger a lot of confusion and nostalgia, Mklinux is back, in a sense. As the announcement makes clear, this is multikernel Linux, not microkernel Linux, which is an ...

If you’ve heard the high-pitched whine or buzz from an electronic device when a current-carrying inductor is vibrating, ...

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

There’s plenty of substances that can theoretically be extruded from a nozzle, but only a regrettably small subset of them can actually be used for 3D printing. One limiting factor is the liquid range ...

Flip disc displays can be quite a task to drive, what with having some sort of actuator mechanism for each and every dot in ...

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

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.