12+ hour, 25+ min ago  (223+ words) Hackaday A buckminsterfullerene, also known as a buckyball, is typically a fullerene consisting of sixty carbon atoms (C60) arranged in a way that resembles a football-like sphere Extending this arrangement to other types of atoms has until now however proven as…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (35+ words) Although cryocoolers are capable of pretty impressive cooling, for many of them the underlying working principle is simple enough that you do not need any special skills or a big budget to make your o. .....

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (30+ words) When the topic of 'electrolysis' is mentioned, people typically think of just splitting plain old dihydrogen monoxide (hydric acid: H2 O) into its constituent atoms, but this barely scratches the surfa. .....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (395+ words) Chemistry Hack Hackaday Plastics, oil, petrol" the modern world is entirely dependent on hydrocarbons. The good sources are slowly running low and supply is increasingly complicated by geopolitical factors we really don't want to get into, but hey! It's just…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (312+ words) Hackaday Plastics, oil, petrol" the modern world is entirely dependent on hydrocarbons The good sources are slowly running low and supply is increasingly complicated by geopolitical factors we really don't want to get into, but hey! It's just hydrogen and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (377+ words) Attack Of The Atomic Oxygen Hackaday While designing anything for operation in space has its challenges, there is at least one thing that is more of a problem for objects in Earth orbit than for deep-space probes: atomic oxygen. We…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (246+ words) Hackaday While designing anything for operation in space has its challenges, there is at least one thing that is more of a problem for objects in Earth orbit than for deep-space probes: atomic oxygen We like oxygen because we need…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (201+ words) Hackaday They operate by the oxidation of metallic zinc using air, and the zinc comes in the form of a paste spread between two electrodes Can their astounding energy density be harnessed for something useful? [Zoller Lab] has designed a…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (27+ words) [caption id="attachment_1111990" align="alignright" width="399"] Credit: Keith Best, Semiengineering. [/caption] Glass-based substrates are slowly beginning to push out organic substrates commonly use. .....

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (436+ words) Typically, when we think of touch screens, we think of LCDs or OLEDs with a resistive or capacitive sensing layer laid over the top. However, a team from the University of Chicago has developed an ent. .....