Today, Apple has announced their latest bit of hardware. Following in the tradition of the Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, and the Intel Edison, Apple have released a single board computer meant for embe…

The venerable ESP8266 has rocked the Internet of Things world. Originally little more than a curious $3 WiFi-to-serial bridge, bit by bit, the true power of the ESP has become known, fully programm…

When working on a new project, it’s common to let feature creep set in and bloat the project. Or to over-design a project well beyond what it would need to accomplish its task. Over at Black …

After months of cross-disciplinary meetings, some of the largest professional associations just announced their plans to submit an entire standard set for engineers with egos too fragile to accept des...

What if we could reduce the cost of a photopolymer resin-based 3D printer by taking out the most expensive components -- and replacing it with something we already have? A smartphone. That's exactly w...

Remember Pogs? They're back, in OSH Park form!

Some of you might be too young to remember, but the 90s were weird. If you need an example of this, you need only look at pogs. This was a schoolyard...

[TK] is a retro computer enthusiast who's had some difficulty locating a joystick for his trusty Amiga 500. New 'sticks are expensive, and battered survivors from the 80s go for more than they s...

While searching for signs of Dalek activity in the vast depths of outer space, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico stumbled across a most interesting find. They were receiving modulated radio signa...

We all have reasons why we're not building cool robots. "I don't have a lasercutter." "I don't have a 3D printer." [JAC_101]'s hexapod robot dances all over your excuses with its tongue-depressor body...

Let’s face it: 3-dimensional odometry can be a computationally expensive problem often requiring expensive 3D cameras and optimized algorithms that can be difficult to wrap our head around. N…

You heard right. There's a team of scientists in Europe who are arranging the world's first Cyborg Olympics, called the Cybathlon. Hosted in Zurich this October, it aims to help gauge the performanc...

Ah laundry day. The washing machine, the dryer, the ironing, and the folding. No one is a fan of doing laundry, but we (I hope) are all fans of having clean clothing. Hackers, makers, and engineers ar...

A good multimeter (or a few of them) is an essential part of anyone’s electronics workbench. The only thing more useful than a multimeter is a logging multimeter that can take recordings over…

Alongside printers from all walks of manufacturing, one can naturally expect to find people selling different kinds of filament at a 3D printing festival. One of these purveyors of plastic was Prot...

[Brody Berson] is at it again, but this time he's hacked the services floating in the aether around him to give him beer on demand. Finally the future we've been waiting for.

This hack is not as ha...

It was high-tech encryption for an important period of time in the mid-1940s, so perhaps you can forgive us our obsession with the Enigma machine. But did you know that you can make your very own E…

Faced with a project requiring a lot of sanding, [George] had two options. Suck it up and buy a belt sander -- or re-purpose a tool he already had to do the same job. He chose the latter, and turned a...

Wherever you stand on the topics of road safety and vehicle speed limits it’s probably fair to say that speed cameras are not a universally popular sight on our roads. If you want a heated ar…

In any motorsport, the more you know about how the engine is performing, the better a driver is likely to do in a race. That holds for bicycles, too, where the driver just happens to also be the en…

This is a hacking and gaming tour de force! [Seth Bling] executed a code injection hack in Super Mario World (SMW) that not only glitches the game, but re-programs it to play a stripped-down versio…