Pictured above is Oscium’s iMSO-104 oscilloscope measuring the waveform of a Mass Air Flow (MAF) sensor for General Motors Vortec V8 engine. In modern post 1990’s vehicles, MAF sensors monitor the flow of air through the engine’s intake and provide

How to Build an Audio Mixer

Oscium iMSO-204 iOS Oscilloscope

(Re-Blogged with permission from Oscium)

Have you ever wondered how music professionals modulate and combine audio signals? They use something called an audio mixer, which takes input from two

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David Akers, who created the Rappidelta large form 3D printer, has started a very cool new kickstarter for his Rappidelta jr 3D printer. This printer is very interesting in its design, in that it is almost entirely 3D printed, and to boot doe

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Google-NASA-and-D-Wave-show-us-the-future-with-quantum-computing_id48220

So, having read through this, there is quite a bit of going on about the more science-fictiony aspects of a quantum computer, but offer nothing eve

I've been watching the Comet ISON saga with interest, although have been understandably disappointed in its performance as it rounded the sun. Ho hum. These long-shot sun slingers aren't that few and far between, but as far as being the 'comet of a l

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20131010-african-inventor-makes-3d-printer-from-e-waste.html

I can only imagine what calibrating this thing must have been like!

"Essentially, a von Neumann probe is a small ship that contains all of the information it needs to recreate itself once it reaches its destination. Acting like a virus, a von Neumann probe would land on a distant planet or asteroid and begin to gathe

Anyone in here attending AU?  I'm going, just wondering if other progressive thinkers from this group are...

Brian

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/12/intel_shows_off_winepowered_processor_and_biometric_boffinry/

Is there a list of these sorts of "natural batteries" anywhere? I wonder why they chose wine, aside from the air of elegance i suppose. I am curious

This nifty little crowdsourced gadget uses clever software to track your head movements and adapt the display of your device to stabilize it while you run, jog, or walk. For those of us using a treadmill as a standup desk (which I've considered but a

An interesting take on rolling out "revolutionary" new features in existing products, like driverless cars:

http://www.techradar.com/news/car-tech/ford-ceo-driverless-cars-nowhere-near-ready-yet-1180523

I was looking over an interesting concept for a new phone "platform" today - Phonebloks. The general idea is that the "phone" portion of the device is really just a glorified breadboard that one attaches components, or Bloks, to. These bloks comprise

This thing is pretty cool looking, and i like it out of hand because you can print your own, but what would one use such a thing for? The quote in the article mentions woodworking, but this doesn't seem sturdy enough for say, a spinning lathe or some

The Bay Bridge opened as expected over the Labor Day weekend, after nearly being delayed multiple times. For such a large project to open on time, nevermind even close to on time, is somewhat of a marvel itself. And if you read about how this bridge

3d printing kickstarters are dime a dozen, but this one seems like it has potential:

http://fabbaloo.com/blog/2013/8/28/it-does-everything-the-fabotum.html#!

Its really the low price for a scanner that makes this so awesome. They'll probably need to lo

If you're an engineer now, it's likely that you don't regret it as a career choice. And if you're considering getting into engineering after high school, there are few careers that will give you more bang for your university buck. College costs have

eBay is at it again. Clearly not satisfied with being an online auctioneer (for years now) they are introducing another nifty service called MyGadgets on the back of their interesting 1-day delivery service and 3D printing portal. I tried it out by a

Ok, probably not. But it's still exciting that this tech is hitting the mainstream so hard after flirting with it for so, so long.

I first used it to make impeller prototypes back in 2006ish. It was expensive, but worth it.  Have you used 3D printers

I love this concept of front loading your schedule. It's basically using a risk management methodology to identify priorities and move them to the front of the queue. And that can be done relatively quickly with some practice, although the key is to

And in horrifying news, that guy that keeps making the 3D printed rifles apparently keeps getting better at it!