I'm really digging the collection of user-submitted articles on primitive technology over at PrimitiveWays. So far, one of my favorites is this article, by one Dino Labiste, about how to treat the natural pith in a deer antler to make an adhesive bed for a stub-tang blade. Read more | Permalink | Comments | ...
In engineering, fabricating and good all-around making, it is very useful to know the basic drawing styles. This will help you get your ideas out of your head and onto the napkin or into your notebo[...]
Alex at Tinkerlog has been enamored with Braitenberg vehicles recently. Here's his latest batch of "tiny Braitenberg vehicles." I was hugely inspired and influenced by Valentino Braitenberg's book [...]
Well, we've completed our first week of our MAKEcation programming, "Teach Your Family to Solder." We hope we've inspired you to take up the firesticks, grab some noxious metal on a spool, and start[...]
I really heart coiled cords. I think coiling is a very elegant way of dealing with the problem of unsightly slack cables, and often I find myself wishing that this or that appliance had come with a[...]
René Penning de Vries, senior vice president and chief technology officer of NXP, spoke to EDN about how design and R&D is changing as we evolve passed the traditional definitions of Moore’s [...]
LSI recently launched a new era in disk-read-channel technology with the RC9500, a mixed-signal read-channel-IP (intellectual-property)-core cluster. LSI intends the block for integration with a drive[...]
Analog Devices has introduced a single-IC USB (Universal Serial Bus) isolator, which simplifies isolated USB-port implementation in system-critical medical and industrial equipment. USB ports provide [...]
A structured approach can give you meaningful power estimates when there's still time to influence process and architecture decisions. [...]
You can apply dynamic-data-rate and dynamic-output-power techniques to ensure that wireless messages get through with minimal power consumption. [...]
As configurable and programmable analog chips grow more popular, they are raising serious questions about the traditional way to do board-level design. [...]