There’s an interesting cultural observation to be made as a writer based in Europe, that we like our sans-serif fonts, while our American fri...

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If you’ve ever experimented with a microprocessor at the bare metal level, you’ll know that when it starts up, it will look at its prog...

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3D Printing is great, but it is pretty much the worst way to make any given part– except that every other technique you could use to make tha...

A lot of claims have been made about the purported benefits of adding chopped carbon fiber to FDM filaments, but how many of these claims are actua...