It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, we’re not talking about the holiday season, although that certainly has its merits. What we mean is that it’s time for the final proj…

There are two kinds of people in the world (and, no, this isn't a binary joke). People who love the Arduino, and people who hate it. If you've ever tried to use a standard prototype board to mount on ...

The PicBerry is a student final project by [Advitya], [Jeff], and [Danna] that takes a hybrid approach to creating a portable (and affordable) combination digital oscilloscope and function generato…

Standing Rock, North Dakota has been the site of a major protest this year against the Dakota Access Pipeline project. Protesters have sought to delay the pipeline’s progress by a wide variet…

If the headline makes today’s hack sound like it was easy, rest assured that it wasn’t. But if you’re interested in embedded device hacking, read on. [Andres] wanted to install a …

Many stop lights at street intersections display a countdown of the remaining seconds before the light changes. If you’re like me, you count this time in your head and then check how in sync …

[Robin] is a hobby photographer with some very nice old film camera gear. But who has the money or patience for developing film these days? (Well, lots of people, especially artists, but that's a diff...

At this point, the internet is crawling with butt-kicking homebrew 3D printers made with extruded profiles, but it’s easy to underestimate the difficulty in getting there. Sure, most vendors …

We all wring our hands over the security (or lack thereof!) of our myriad smart devices. If you haven't had your home network hacked through your toaster, or baby cam, you're missing out on the zeitge...

Another week goes by and another new IoT platform surfaces. Google has announced Android Things, a build of the mobile operating system designed for smart devices rather than the latest slab of mobile...

The vintage aesthetic is more popular than ever, and while things like rotary phones aren't particularly useful anymore, there's a lot of fun to be had using them in new and inventive ways. For this p...

Space. The final frontier. Unfortunately, the vast majority of us are planet-locked until further notice. If you are dedicated hobbyist astronomer, you probably already have the rough positions of the...

If you buy an amateur transceiver cheap enough to make a reasonable grab bag gift or stocking stuffer, you get what you pay for. And if this extensive analysis of cheap radios is any indication, yo…

We’re not specialists, but the Maillardet Automaton is one of the more amazing mechanical machines that we’ve seen in a while, and [Fran Blanche] got to spend some time with it in an at…

[Wolf] came into possession of an Extech power supply that wasn't quite in working order. It has been used in battery manufacturing and was fairly corroded. He was able to fix it but found there was ...

Wouldn’t it be great if there were just one standard for attaching to, programming, and debugging hardware?  If you could just plug in and everything would just work? Dream on, dreamer! But o…

Untold miles of film were shot by amateur filmmakers in the days before YouTube, iPhones, and even the lowly VHS camcorder. A lot of that footage remains to be discovered in attics and on the top s…

In Texas -- at least around Houston -- we don't have basements. We do, however, have bilges. Both of these are subject to taking on water when no one is paying attention. A friend of mine asked me wha...

Most of us carry a spectacularly powerful computer in our pocket, which we rarely use for much more than web browsing, social media, and maybe the occasional phone call. Our mobile phones are techn…

[Jaromir Sukuba]  has an awesome BrainF*ck interpreter project going. He's handling the entire language in less than 1 kB of code. Sounds like a great entry in the 1 kB Challenge. The only problem is...