Since early 2004 I have been doing a regular column in Geare magazine, called 'Know It All'. In each one I endeavour to explain how something works.
These are those columns.
| Title | About | Geare Issue |
|---|---|---|
| When Only the Best Will Do | How even the world's worst digital audio cable still delivers the goods | Issue #57, 2009 |
| Entertai1n1n6 Numb3rs | How video frames are counted | Issue #56, 2009 |
| The Weird and Wacky World of Video compression | How Video Compression works | Issue #55, 2009 |
| The Hybrid, or the Half Electric Car | How Hybrid Cars work | Issue #54, 2009 |
| Elevator To Heaven | How To Get To Space In Comfort | Issue #53, 2009 |
| Nuclear Power | How Nuclear Power works | Issue #52, 2008 |
| Inside the Bomb | How Atomic Bombs work | Issue #51, 2008 |
| Why We Don't Work | How We work | Issue #50, 2008 |
| Little changes, big results | How Life works | Issue #49, 2008 |
| How To Stop A Tank | How HEAT Weapons work | Issue #48, 2008 |
| Standby Standoff | How not to save power with your TV | Issue #47, 2008 |
| Squeezing stuff to size | How Data Compression works | Issue #43, 2007 |
| Natural energy | How Renewable Energy works | Issue #42, 2007 |
| Waves of power | How Electrical Power Distribution works | Issue #41, 2007 |
| By Your Bootstraps | How Computer Booting works | Issue #39, 2006 |
| Decoding Digits | How Digital Signals work | Issue #38, 2006 |
| Going Down | How Scuba Diving works | Issue #37, 2006 |
| Catching the Ball | How Hawk Eye works | Issue #36, 2006 |
| Bang Bang | How Guns works | Issue #35, 2006 |
| Position, Position, Position | How GPS works | Issue #34, 2005 |
| Podcasting | How Podcasting works | Issue #33, 2005 |
| Holograms, or Seeing in the Round | How Holograms work | Issue #32, 2005 |
| Pretty in Prints | How Laser Printers work | Issue #31, 2005 |
| SCRAM Snails! | How Scramjet engines work | Issue #30, 2005 |
| From Farts to Fuel | How Fuel Cells work | Issue #29, 2004 |
| Raising the Bar | How RFID works | Issue #28, 2004 |
| Over the Rainbow | How Three Panel Projectors work | Issue #27, 2004 |
| Broken DVD secrets | How DVD encryption got broken | Issue #26, 2004 |
| Safety through scrambling | How data encryption works | Issue #25, 2004 |
| Reflected Glory | How DLP projectors Work
With a note on how I got it wrong! | Issue #24, 2004 |