Meet Project Patchouli, an open-source drawing tablet project to 'build your own tablet from scratch'

For something intended to mimic good old pencil and paper, drawing tablets and the tech behind them are surprisingly complicated. If you fancy a crash course in how they work and want to build your ...
Rhode Island School of Design

Multiyear RISD Project in the Azores Promotes Biodiversity and Sustainable Design

Architecture faculty members Jonathan Knowles and Laura Briggs are working with students to design and build a butterfly ...
Hackaday

Tired Of Burnt Fingers? Try PID Tuning The Hot Glue Gun

Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You turn it on, and the heater starts warming up; ...
CNN

The disaster-prone Philippines invested billions in flood control. Then officials looted the funds

Ace Aguirre was just two bites into his oatmeal on the morning of November 4 when he noticed something strange: mud had seeped onto the living room floor of his bungalow in Cotcot, a village in the ...
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COA flags 4 Bulacan flood control projects worth P330M

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Audit (COA) sought a criminal investigation by the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) of four “ghost” flood control projects in Bulacan province ...