Some people love fiddling with their 3D printers, others love printing. Some fiddle so they can spend more time printing, ...

Makers and hardware hackers have been collecting disposable vapes for some time now, usually to salvage their batteries or the unique displays many models now come with. But you can also repurpose ...

We don’t usually speculate on the true identity of the hackers behind these projects, but when [TN666]’s accoustic ...

Supercapacitors rely mostly on double-layer capacitance to bridge the divide between chemical batteries and traditional capacitors, but they come with a number of weaknesses. Paramount among these ...

The Z80 has been gone a couple of years now, but it’s very much not forgotten. Still, the day when new-old-stock and salvaged ...

A switch is simple: connect two pieces of metal together and bam! Except, it’s not that simple at high currents. How much ...

If you’ve ever run a game server or used BitTorrent, you probably know that life is easier if your router supports UPnP ...

Graphics calculators are one of those strange technological cul-de-sacs. They rely on outdated technology and should not be nearly as expensive as they are, but market effects somehow keep prices ...

In the early days of aviation, pilots or their navigators used a plethora of tools to solve common navigation and piloting ...

Here’s a simple project for your Halloween celebration. The other day while looking through our box of Halloween decorations, we noticed that the incandescent lamp in one of the jack-o’-lanterns was ...

[Nicholas LaBonte] shows off a Cyberdeck Handheld that demonstrates just how good something can look when care and attention goes into the design and fabrication. He wanted to make something that ...

Stabilizing an inverted pendulum is a classic problem in control theory, and if you’ve ever taken a control systems class you might remember seeing pages full of differential equations and bode ...