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Improved Double-Sided Toner Transfer Method (opens the original)
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In the era before PCB shops would make almost any PCB imaginable, as well making many other manufacturing processes for prototypes available to hobbyists, there were several ways of making PCBs at home. Many of which involve harsh chemicals and were easy to mess up. Getting a single-layer PCB using the toner transfer method, for example, took a bit of practice (and a fume hood) to get right. [Bettina Neumryr] is working on a custom two-layer PCB, and has a new trick to get it to come out right d
Two-Dimensional Material Now Easier To Manufacture (opens the original)
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We often see scientific breakthroughs in journals or other media that’s reported on as if it’s a revolutionary technology guaranteed to reshape human existence, only to never hear about it again. A more cynical reason for this phenomenon is a certain amount of clickbait or engagement farming, but the real culprit often tends to be the discovery of a process that can’t produce the new material or effect at a scale that makes sense for mass production. One of those are MXenes (“max-enes”), a two-d
An IR Blaster Project, In A Nutshell (opens the original)
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The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a few decades ago. And, although it seems like the speed at which things are getting smaller and faster has slowed a bit compared to the rapid pace of the 90s and 00s, some truly minuscule computers are accessible nowadays. So much so that it’s possible to do useful computing inside a walnut shell. The first step in this buil
Center-Pivot System Modified To Mow Lawn (opens the original)
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When flying over the United States, Australia, and a few other vast and relatively empty parts of the world, strange circular formations can be spotted. These are typically center-pivot irrigation systems, an effective way to irrigate crops if efficient use of space is not too big of a priority. Keeping these massive machines in a straight line is an interesting engineering problem, though, and [rctestflight] built a miniature version of his that works on the same principle but mows his lawn ins
Reverse Engineering Apple’s Mikey Chip (opens the original)
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On the old iPods, generally referred to here in the future as iPod Classic, there lives a tiny, undocumented chip called Mikey. It sits at the headphone output and performs only two functions: powering the Apple wired headset microphone and handling button presses from the three buttons. Despite these headphones and iPods having existed for nearly two decades, no one in the open source community has figured out the protocol Apple used for these buttons until now. As [Hemant] discovered after fin
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