Many decades ago, when soldering was an activity more often associted with copper fabrication than with electronics, a ...

The Universal Serial Bus. The one bus to rule them all.  It brought peace and stability to the world of computer peripherals.

It isn’t that hard to make an electronic rain gauge if you have a steady source of power or you don’t mind changing batteries ...

This unusual tattoo hack by [Emily The Engineer] is not for the weak of heart, but let’s be frank: we kind of know her for ...

You’ve probably noticed that everywhere you go — the doctor’s office, hotels, or retail shops, there are tiny PCs everywhere.

In his most recent article, [Ken Shirriff] takes a break from putting ASICs under a microscope, and instead does the same in a proverbial manner with the word ‘mainframe’. Although ...

Brian McCafferty] created a nice big RGB LED panel in a poster frame that aimed to be easy to move, program, and display.

How small can an electric motor be without resorting to manufacturing methods like lithography? In a recent video, [Chronova ...

Let’s face it—seeing a good tool go to waste is heartbreaking. So when his cordless drill’s motor gave up after some ...

Stephen] recently wrote in to share his experiments with using the LimeSDR mini to conduct a bit of piracy on the airwaves, ...

Is fire conductive? As ridiculous that may sound at first glance, from a physics perspective the rapid oxidation process we call ‘fire’ produces a lot of substances that can reduce the ...

Redbox was a company with a moderately interesting business model—it let you rent DVDs from automated kiosks. It’s an idea so ...