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Automated aquarium fertilizer doser14 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 2 weeks ago: If you are using live plants in your aquarium you must remember to fertilize them at regular interva … more →

Tags: arduino hacks, Aquarium, Fertilizer, fish tank

A very tiny gamma ray detector40 comments

Brian Benchoff wrote 2 weeks ago: When you think of a radiation detector, you’re probably thinking of a Geiger tube and its high … more →

Tags: gamma, Gamma Ray, geiger, geiger counter, Radiation

Reflow soldering improved with carbon dioxide30 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 3 weeks ago: This is exactly what it looks like. [Oleg] calls it soldering in inert atmosphere, but it’s ju … more →

Tags: tool-hacks, carbon dioxide, CO2, Oven, reflow, Solder

Laptop vs Thermite: Slow motion destruction78 comments

Caleb Kraft wrote 3 weeks ago: Years ago we covered using thermite to destroy a hard drive. The idea is that if you melt through th … more →

Tags: computer hacks, Featured, James Bond, thermite

Trimethyl Borate lantern built from garbage18 comments

Mike Szczys wrote 1 month ago: This lantern was built from recyclable goods. It’s a bit dangerous when used like the image ab … more →

Tags: glass, Jar, LAMP, Lantern

kirmaan wrote 2 years ago: Wine cask sensor suite posted Aug 4th 2010 1:00pm by Mike Szczys filed under: chemistry hacks As par … more →

kirmaan wrote 2 years ago: Vapor phase reflow soldering posted Oct 15th 2010 10:00am by Mike Szczys filed under: chemistry hack … more →

More EL chemistry: Luminescent ink

kirmaan wrote 2 years ago: [Jeri Ellsworth] continues her experiments with electroluminescence, this time she’s making EL ink. … more →


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