Here’s something fun from [Chad Kapper] over on HackMakeMod: Escape Room Lockbox with the Cheap Yellow Display. You may have heard of the “cheap yellow display” (CYD), so-called due to the board’s ...

Digital multimeters (DMM), once called voltmeters, have been described as the tape measure for engineers in the new millennium. With electronics and electrical circuits included in almost every ...

Engineering consultant Frank Hertel outlines a method of measuring an inductor’s value using only an oscilloscope and a signal or function generator.

Katie Brown is an editor for Food & Wine specializing in kitchen product reviews. An avid home cook and baker, she has tested countless kitchen tools, appliances, and cookware over the years. As ...

Join us for this talk about Diane Coyle’s latest book The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters. Professor Coyle argues that the way we measure the economy—developed in the 1940s—no longer ...

The World Bank’s mission is to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. To effectively monitor progress toward this goal, it is critical to measure poverty on a regular ...

Finally, eco-friendly music.

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have revised that knowledge using new data and ...

Carrying too much weight around your waist can cause health problems. Your health is affected by where you store body fat, even if you have a healthy weight or a normal body mass index (BMI).

Tape measures are available in a range of lengths, from 6-foot keychain versions to 100-foot “long tapes” for home appraisals and construction use. Twenty-five-foot tape measures are the most common, ...

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