Jamie] decided to build a generator, and Lego is his medium of choice. Thus was created a fancy levitating generator that ...

Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative ...

When you think of printing on paper, you probably think of an ink jet or a laser printer. If you happen to think of a thermal ...

Let’s say you had a SNES with a busted CPU. What would you do? Your SNES would be through! That is, unless, you had a ...

We’ve seen plenty of motor projects, but [Jeremy]’s DIY Tubular Linear Motor is a really neat variety of stepper motor in a format we certainly don’t see every day. It started as ...

We are always fascinated by bubble memory. In the late 1970s, this was the “Next Big Thing” that, as you may have guessed, ...

Prototyping is a personal affair, with approaches ranging from dead-bug parts on tinplate through stripboard and protoboard, ...

Detecting single photons can be seen as the backbone of cutting-edge applications like LiDAR, medical imaging, and secure optical communication. Miss one, and critical information could be lost ...

We use ARM devices in everything from our microcontroller projects to our laptops, and many of us are aware of the architecture’s humble beginnings in a 1980s Acorn Archimedes computer. ARM ...

Anyone will tell you that as hard as it is to create a working system, the real trick is making two systems talk to each other, especially if you created only one or none of them. That’s why ...

Another day, another Internet-connected gadget that gets abandoned by its creators. This time it’s Jooki — a screen-free ...

When the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) amateur radio satellite was launched in 1974, its expected lifespan was about five years. The plucky little satellite made it to 1981 when a battery failure caused it ...