The miniature Christmas village is a tradition in many families — a tiny idyllic world filled happy people, shops, and...
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If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned...
Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to , yes you can. But should you? Well,...
had an interesting problem to solve—his girlfriend often requested Diet Coke, but yelling for one across the apartment was frustrating...
Who wouldn’t want to have a scanning electron microscope (SEM)? If you’re the person behind the ProjectsInFlight channel on YouTube, you...
Playing Star Wars Outlaws sparked an idea with : why not recreate the game’s wrist communicator as a functioning gadget?...
Reverse engineering a payphone doesn’t sound like a very interesting project, at least in the United States, where payphones were...
Every scout knows how to read a compass, and that there is a magnetic north and a true north. That’s...
Although a lot of tools have been digitized and consolidated into our smartphones, from cameras, music players, calendars, alarm clocks,...
RandomGram, A unique CW contest, takes place December 20th. The contest is unique in that participants send random groups of...
Two guys — Stern and Gerlach — did an experiment in 1922. They wanted to measure magnetism caused by electron...
‘Tis the season for holiday hacks, and is here to remind us that we don’t necessarily need a fancy microcontroller...
What if your keychain could tell you the temperature, all while staying battery-free? That’s the essence of this innovative keychain...
SpaceX’s Starship is the most powerful launch system ever built, dwarfing even the mighty Saturn V both in terms of...
A thermal camera is a very handy tool to have, and wanted to try out the Thermal Master P2 for...
It’s easy to use electricity — solar-generated or otherwise — to desalinate water. However, traditional systems require a steady source...
Space and mystery always spark our curiosity, so when we stumbled upon the story of Skynet-1A, Britain’s first communication satellite...
Formerly known as Unidentified Flying Objects, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) is a category of observations that are exactly what the...
Everyone knows those small bags of forbidden “Do not eat” candy that come with fresh rolls of FDM filament as...
Pretty much every modern car has some driver assistance feature, such as lane departure and blind-spot warnings, or adaptive cruise...
is no stranger to these pages, nor is his Museum is not Obsolete. The museum was recently gifted an enormous...
The Geochron World Time Indicator is a clock that doubles as a live map of where the sun is shining...
It’s been about a decade since Amazon began to fly its delivery drones, aiming to revolutionize the online shopping experience...
We always thought the older console games looked way better back in the day on old CRTs than now on...
It’s 2024. You’ve probably got one or more pairs of wireless headphones around the house. prefers wired headphones with a...
