Year: 2008

Peeking inside some LEDs

Peeking inside some LEDs

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories gets up close to some LEDs, and takes a peek beyond the light: I took some close-up pictures of LEDs to get a look at what’s inside. These are just standard T-1 3/4 (5 mm) package superbright LEDs with clear lenses, one of the most common types, and I took the […]

Knitted electromagnetic shields

Knitted electromagnetic shields

Becky @ CRAFT spotted a nice design noir project, she writes – From the technophobic department, Zoe Papadopoulou at the Royal Academy of Art is making these shields for anything electric, knitting a copper filament in her cozies and electrically grounding it. This provides some shielding from the electromagnetic fields these devices emit. Truth is, […]

Vector MAME

There’s a special place reserved in my digital heart for the classic arcades like Tempest and Asteroids, and ironically it’s because of the flawless analog goodness of their vector-based displays. I still boot up a Tempest emulator for the Dreamcast from time to time, though while it remains fun to play, it just has no […]