Sony recently unveiled Toio, an educational robotics toy for young programmers. We all know Sony as an electronics giant, but they do dabble in robotics from time to time. The AIBO dog family is proba...

When I was at Bay Area Maker Faire a few weekends ago I stopped by the Monoprice booth to chat with [Chris Apland], their head of 3D Printing. Earlier in the week, the company had just announced pr…

You would be forgiven to think that 3D printing is only about rolls of filament and tubs of resin. The fact is, there are many more 3D printing technologies out there. Everything from powders to paper...

[Ben Bradley], a member of Freeside Atlanta, built a capacitive touch Jankó keyboard for the Georgia Tech Moog Hackathon. Jankó Keyboards are a 19th-Century attempt to add a more compact piano ke...

When [Jason Dorie] tipped us off on this, he said, "This barely qualifies as a hack." We disagree, as would any other dog lover who sees how it improved the life of his dog with a simple mood-alterin...

It's probably safe to say that most hackers and makers don't really want to fuss around with the details of making video documentation of their work. They would rather spend their time and energy on t...

We often read about the minicomputers of the 1960s, and see examples of their use in university research laboratories or medium-sized companies where they might have managed the accounts. It's temptin...

When do you need a portable Jacob's Ladder? We don't know, but apparently [mitxela] doesn't want to leave home (or the laboratory) without one. So he built a portable unit that works for a few minutes...

Just about everything the US Government publishes is available to the public. Granted, browsing the GPO bookstore yields a lot of highly specialized documents like a book on how to perform pediatri…

Thanks to CERN and their work in detecting the Higgs Boson using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), there has been a surge of interest among many to learn more about the basic building blocks of the …

Like friendship, JB Weld is magic. Rumors persist of shade tree mechanics in the Yukon repairing cracked engine blocks with JB Weld, and last month this theory was proved correct. [Project Farm] ov…

If you are a hillwalker, wherever your preferred stomping ground may be you'll know the importance of a pack with a good strap system. A comfortable pack will make the difference between tiredness an...

This interesting project out of MIT aims to use technology to help visually impaired people navigate through the use of a haptic feedback belt, chest-mounted sensors, and a braille display. The bel…

Deep-sea exploration is considered as a relatively new area of research and the electronics involved has to be special in order to survive some of the deepest parts of the ocean. Pressure Tolerant …

One of the driving principles of a lot of the projects we see is simplicity. Whether that's a specific design goal or a result of having limited parts to work with, it often results in projects that a...

When working collaboratively, it is handy to be able to see someone's screen. For the GUI, there are plenty of options. There are a few ways to share a terminal screen (such as screen, tmux, and tmate...

[Ross Fish], [Darcy Neal], [Ben Davis], and [Paul Stoffregen] created "the Monolith", an interactive synth sculpture designed to showcase capabilities of the Teensy 3.6 microcontroller.

The Monol...

Part lightshow, part art piece, part exploratory technology, Light Barrier (third edition) by South Korean duo [Kimchi and Chips] crafts a visual and aural experience of ephemeral light structures usi...

Seismic waves travel through the Earth’s crust at about four kilometers a second. Light travels through fiber at about 200,000 kilometers per second. Taking network lag into account, it&#8217…

[Paul de Groot] wrote in to let us know about a drop-in controller replacement he designed for those economical K40 laser engravers that are everywhere on eBay. With the replacement controller, gre…