Finely Machined Valve Controls Miniature RC Hydraulics
Hydraulic components are the industrial power transmission version of LEGO. Pumps, cylinders, valves – pretty much everything is standardized, and fitting out a working system is a matter of picking...
View ArticleSimplify Your Life with This Pocket Rotary Cellphone
With its constant siren song of distraction and endless opportunity for dopamine hits, a smartphone can cause more problems than it solves. The simple solution would be a no-nonsense flip phone, but...
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Reverse-Engineering a Smoker
In certain parts of the world, cooking meat in a regionally-specific way is a critical part of the local culture. From barbeque in the American south to boerewors and braaivleis in South Africa to...
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Rŏ̽ta: Counting, With Style
Rǒta counts things. That’s it, really — what a cheap little mechanical counter does with a thumb press, or what you can do by counting on your fingers and toes, that’s pretty much all that Rǒta does....
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Rotary Dial Number Pad is the Perfect Prank for Retro-Phone Enthusiast
We’re not sure about the rest of you, but to us, a keyboard without a number pad all the way over to the right just seems kind of — naked? We might not be accountants, but there’s something comforting...
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Pimp My Pot Redux, Now Cheaper and Even Better
If there’s one thing we like around here more than seeing an improved version of a project we’ve already covered, it’s when the improvements make the original project cheaper. In the case of this LED...
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Retro Calculator Build Proves the Space Age Isn’t What It Used to Be
The common wisdom these days is that even if we wanted to get back to the Moon the way we did in the 1960s, we’d never be able to do it. Most of the blame for that usually falls on the loss of...
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