Dealing with electronics, we’ll inevitably need to deal with wires at one point or another. The first thing you’ll have to do is to strip the insulation to get to the meat of it, so to speak. So what are your options? Here’s a video about the different options: As covered in our Show &…
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This week’s post will be a repair tutorial for a Boxy watch winder. Watch winders are devices that will rotate your watch a specific amount of times a day. Why would you want to do that? Aside battery powered watches, there are automatic watches – these watches use springs and motions to keep themselves powered.…
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Originally this post was going to be about EveryCircuit. Every circuit is an app (IOS/Android) that allows you to drag and drop electrical components and power sources and link them together. It then shows you how the circuit would behave if you actually acquired and connected real components together. I have recommended this paid app…
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Welcome to another Python tutorial everyone! Web severs are everywhere. Heck you are interacting with one right now! What is an HTTP Server? An HTTP web server is nothing but a process that is running on your machine and does exactly two things: 1- Listens for incoming http requests on a specific TCP socket address (IP address…
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Before I got into mechanical keyboards, I thought keyboards come in at most two sizes, the keyboard like the one in every laptop and the “bigger ones” with a number pad and other things. Now I know that there are way more than that. Other than that, they are not only come with the most…
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If you’re a Mac user, you’ve probably run into those few softwares that are Windows only. Virtual machines are great for quick Windows tasks, but they lack power and are quite slow. If you have an extra hard drive laying about, you can turn it into a small Windows computer that you just plug and…
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Many of us have some old consoles and hardware lying around that we don’t know what to do with. Well, if you have an old Nintendo 3DS, you can install some custom firmware onto it that lets you do some cool new things with it. From homebrew games to custom themes and unlocking region-locked games,…
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When talking about game engines, Unity and Unreal tend to dominate the conversation. Today, I want to introduce a completely free and open-source game engine called Godot. Godot is a great game engine for beginners and those new to coding, so I’ve found a few great starter tutorials to learn the basics of coding and…
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You know pixel art from retro games like Donkey Kong and Super Mario, but even now many indie games feature pixel art. Some of my favourite pixel art games are Celeste with its super smooth animations and Hyper Light Drifter with its cyberpunk colour palette and detailed environments. To get started making pixel art, I’ve…
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In the last tutorial of the ios application building, I learned that I need to start with knowing how to code with Swift. I already downloaded Xcode (go check the last tutorial!) and I will be work from there. This tutorial is three hours and a half long but it is divided into very easy…
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