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A Hydroelectric Dam, Built Out of LEGO

Hydroelectric dams are usually major infrastructure projects that costs tens of millions of dollars to construct. But they don’t have to be — you can build your own at home, using LEGO, as [Build it with Bricks] demonstrates! The build is set up in an aquarium with a pump, which serves to simulate flow through

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Fossil is Quitting Smartwatches

Fossil Group has decided to call it quits on smartwatches. The company announced Friday that it would leave the smartwatch business and redirect resources to its less-smart goods instead. From a report: The company has been one of the most prolific makers of Wear OS smartwatches over the years, and its absence will leave a

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Soldering Holder from Old Lamps

One of the neat things about 3D printing is that you can create custom parts to fit salvage to use in projects. For example, [Willyrags05] took a lamp — looks like something you might find at a resale shop — harvested the gooseneck tubes from it. Before 3D printing, it would have required ingenuity to

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Bank of America Sends Warning Letters To Employees Not Going Into Offices

Bank of America is cracking down on employees who aren’t following its return-to-office mandate, sending “letters of education” warnings of disciplinary action to employees who have been staying home. The Guardian: Some employees at the bank received letters that said they had failed to meet the company’s “workplace excellence guidelines” despite “requests and reminders to

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A ZX Spectrum Raytracer, in BASIC

[Gabriel Gambetta] knows a few things about ray tracers, being the author of Tiny Raytracer, a raytracer written in just 912 bytes of JavaScript. As a long-time fellow sufferer of the UK-designed ZX Spectrum, could these two love affairs be merged? Could the Tiny Raytracer fit on the ZX Spectrum? In BASIC? The answer is

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How to Get Microsoft Copilot Pro Subscription

After the massive success of ChatGPT, Microsoft also came up with its own AI companion called Copilot. Microsoft Copilot is more useful than ChatGPT because it provides Windows users integration to apps like Edge and MS Office. After a few months of free launch, Microsoft introduced Copilot Pro, which starts at $20 per month per

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A ZX Spectrum Raytracer, in BASIC

[Gabriel Gambetta] knows a few things about ray tracers, being the author of Tiny Raytracer, a raytracer written in just 912 bytes of JavaScript. As a long-time fellow sufferer of the UK-designed ZX Spectrum, could these two love affairs be merged? Could the Tiny Raytracer fit on the ZX Spectrum? In BASIC? The answer is

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