When [Rodrigo Feliciano] realized that the reason his seven-segment LED wall clock wasn’t working was because the original ...

Owing to the wave nature of light there are many ways that such different waves can interact with each other, but also with ...

It’s the end of the year, and a few hardy souls gather in a hackerspace to enjoy a bit of seasonal food and hang out.

When [Tahmid Mahbub] recently reached for his ‘Lavolta’ BPS-305 bench supply, he was dismayed to find that despite it being a ...

A bit ago, I’ve told you about how the Sony Vaio motherboard replacement started, and all the tricks I used to make it ...

Garage 54] is no stranger to vehicle-related projects of the “because why not?” variety, and their latest is using 50 cordless drills combined into a monstrous mega-motor to turn a ...

Within our comfortable world of causality we expect that reactions always follow an action and not vice versa. This why the recent chatter in the media about researchers having discovered ...

The world of audio has produced a variety of different loudspeaker designs over the last century, though it’s fair to say that the trusty moving coil reigns supreme. That hasn’t ...

One of the longest running jokes in our sphere is that the coming year will finally be the year of “Linux on the Desktop.” ...

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

Around here, we love it when someone identifies a need and creates their own solution. In this case, [Engineer Bo] was tired of endless and imprecise scrolling with a mouse wheel. No off-the-shelf ...

We talk about Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred ...