Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative ...

Jamie] decided to build a generator, and Lego is his medium of choice. Thus was created a fancy levitating generator that ...

Let’s say you had a SNES with a busted CPU. What would you do? Your SNES would be through! That is, unless, you had a ...

When you think of printing on paper, you probably think of an ink jet or a laser printer. If you happen to think of a thermal ...

We are always fascinated by bubble memory. In the late 1970s, this was the “Next Big Thing” that, as you may have guessed, ...

Prototyping is a personal affair, with approaches ranging from dead-bug parts on tinplate through stripboard and protoboard, ...

We’ve seen plenty of motor projects, but [Jeremy]’s DIY Tubular Linear Motor is a really neat variety of stepper motor in a format we certainly don’t see every day. It started as ...

Detecting single photons can be seen as the backbone of cutting-edge applications like LiDAR, medical imaging, and secure optical communication. Miss one, and critical information could be lost ...

Lithium technology has ushered in a new era of batteries with exceptionally high energy density for a reasonably low cost.

USB flash drives get cheaper and hold more data. Unfortunately, they don’t always get faster. The reality is, many USB 3.0 ...

The Pomdoro technique of time management has moved on a little from the tomato-shaped kitchen timer which gave it a name, as ...

Another day, another Internet-connected gadget that gets abandoned by its creators. This time it’s Jooki — a screen-free ...