Despite the recent rise of affordable sous vide machines, the cooking concept has always skewed a little nerdy. Preparing food in vacuum-sealed bags in a temperature-controlled water bath sounds like ...
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A common project among electronics tinkerers is the joule thief, a self-oscillating circuit that can “steal” the remaining energy in a battery after the voltage has dropped so low that most devices ...
ChefSteps hardware lead Kevin Finke, CEO Chris Young and software lead Emmett Barton with Joule at the ChefSteps headquarters at Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Measuring just 11 inches tall and 1.85 ...
We have all no doubt at some point released the magic smoke from a piece of electronics, it’s part of what we do. But sometimes it’s a piece of electronics we’re not quite ready to let go, and ...
It seems impossible, but biofuel startup Joule Biotechnologies claims that it has successfully produced fuel out of thin air–sort of. The company’s mysterious engineered microbes require just sunlight ...