Simplicity, small size, portability, and embeddability set Lua apart from other scripting languages.

General-purpose computers have become ubiquitous and important for everyday life, but they are difficult for people with paralysis to use. Specialized software and personalized input devices can improve access, but often provide only limited functionality.…

A lot can be done with simple motors and linear motion when they are mated to the right mechanical design and control systems. Teaching these principles is the goal behind the LCMT (Low Cost Mechat…

My parents wanted to automate the door to their chicken coop. I saved them money by building a cheap automatic door opener from scratch.

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'Had a Uighur host just greeted a neighbour in Arabic with the words ‘Assalamu Alaykum’? That would need to go in the notebook," says Dr Darren Byler

Deal follows the death of a factory worker from leukemia in 2007

Functional programming is an old idea with a distinguished history. Lisp, a functional language inspired by Alonzo Church

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From a soccer stadium in Zambia to dams that rival the Hoover Dam, China is using construction to forge close bonds around the world.

One of the ways people use FPGAs is to have part of the FPGA fabric hold a CPU. That makes sense because CPUs are good at some jobs that are hard to do with an FPGA, and vice versa. Now that the RI…

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It's called "anting," and it is weird.