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…

[Claire Chen] and [Mark Zhao], students in [Bruce Land]’s ECE5760 class at Cornell, created a project aimed at the manufacturing sector: quality-checking manufactured products automatically by visu...

[Tuco] is a cat who shares the space of [Micah Elizabeth Scott]. He is a large tabby tomcat, and he is polydactyl, which is to say he has a congenital excess of toes. He is an extremely active and eng...

Radiation patterns for antennas can be utterly confusing, especially when presented in two dimensions, as they usually are. Fear not, [Hunter] has your back with 3D printed and color-coded radiatio…

When you’re a high schooler who built a semiconductor fab in your garage, what’s next on your agenda? Why, adding a scanning electron microscope to your lab, naturally. How silly of you…

Most wireless OEM hardware traditionally use 433MHz OOK modules to exchange information. The encoding and encryption of this data stream is left as a task for the embedded software designer. In mos…