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Brim & Support Cutter Cleaner

“It is a handy help for cleaning the print from Brim and supports. To use it you need mount in a Plexiglas cutter blade. For compatibility with all Blade, Long and Short, dont use two screws. Use Little part off …

Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures

“Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic “building blocks” from which stable structures formed. The findings, reported in Nature Communications, provide insights that may improve design of …

Changing the way we search for antibiotics - with a $200, 3D-printed box

“A small, black box developed in a McMaster University lab could change the way scientists search for new antibiotics. The Printed Fluorescence Imaging Box – or PFIbox, for short – is capable of collecting massive amounts of data that will help researchers …

ChocoRobo - Autonomous Chocolate Delivery Robot

“A simple, easy to build face following robot made with off the shelf parts. Introduction Simple and easy to build face following robot with off-the-shelf parts for anyone to create. No need for expensive or specialized tools such as 3D …

Cordwood I Guitar Tuner

“The Boldport Cordwood has 6 LEDs. My guitar has 6 strings. So let’s make a tuner.. The Boldport Cordwood has six LEDs. Six is one of my favourite numbers .. like the number of strings on a standard guitar. So …

DIY - LAN Cable Tester

“There is nothing worse than running your drops only to realize that you have a fault in one of the cable runs. The best approach is to get it right in the first place by using a “LAN Cable Tester …

Electrons ride plasma wave

“First successful test of the particle accelerators of the future There is a good chance that soon a new door will open to physicists, offering them new insights into the mysteries of the universe. The international AWAKE collaboration has made …

Enginursday: A Glowing Guitar for Decadon

“I was recently approached by music producer Decadon to add lights to an already custom guitar to make it even more one-of-a-kind. Let’s check out some of the challenges I faced. It’s not every day you get handed …

ESP-01 Motion Sensor With Deep Sleep

“I have been working on making homemade motion sensors that send an email message when triggered. There are many example instructables and other examples of doing this. I recently needed to do this with a battery operated PIR motion sensor …

Fish-eye lens may entangle pairs of atoms

“Scientists find a theoretical optical device may have uses in quantum computing. Nearly 150 years ago, the physicist James Maxwell proposed that a circular lens that is thickest at its center, and that gradually thins out at its edges, should …