We’re always happy to see hackers inspired to try something different by what they see on Hackaday. To [SimpleTronic] has a project that will let you stretch your analog electronics skills in a really ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian approaches! 🕰️🔬 In this video, we explore the motion of a simple pendulum from three different perspectives: the Newtonian approach (using forces and ...

The answer is yes. Yes, you can get a value of pi using a pendulum. Well, you need a few other things. Of course, this is the experimental part of my previous post on the connection between pi and the ...

Check out Dr. Bob Grober on YouTube. I heard the term “harmonic oscillator” a few years ago and was lost until I found out it was simply a pendulum. Understanding how a pendulum works and how we can ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. Remember Magic 8-Balls? If you ever had one, you probably asked it fun questions, like if your latest ...

Frequent Griffith Observatory visitor Pamela Garner thought she had the place pegged. Her first stop was always the Los Angeles landmark’s soaring central rotunda. There, she paused to watch the giant ...

In 1665 Christiaan Huygens discovered that two pendulum clocks, hung from the same wooden structure, will always oscillate in synchronicity. Today, some 350 years on, Eindhoven and Mexican researchers ...

In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, noticed a curious phenomenon. When two identical pendulum clocks are mounted next to each other on a wall, their swings ...

Anyone who says regulation stifles innovation clearly knows as little about business as they do about motorsport. Necessity is the mother of invention, and every rule ever made to slow cars down has ...