In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles.

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After just a little over 25 years of the Haiku project trying to keep the BeOS spirit alive, the team has now released Beta 6. The spicy details of what is now all better can naturally be found in ...

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.

The Claymore mine is a rather fearsome weapon of war, using explosives to blast a cone of shrapnel towards advancing enemies. It’s not really something you should try and build at home. An ...

If you’ve heard the high-pitched whine or buzz from an electronic device when a current-carrying inductor is vibrating, you’ll know how unpleasant it can be. It’s common in all ...

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

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

The formula of a Raspberry Pi camera is such that it’s almost a self-assembly kit of parts. Over the years we’ve seen a lot ...

The phones! They were one of the basic utilities of the 20th century, and were just about as reliable as death and taxes. Even when then power grid went down, you still had a fair shot of getting ...

Perhaps the most annoying kinds of faults are those that involve expensive equipment that just sit around in a cupboard, only ...