Much like calling over a buddy or two to help with moving a large piece of furniture and pivot it up a narrow flight of ...

If you are a nerdy kid today, you have your choice of wondrous gadgets and time wasters. When we were nerdy kids, our options were somewhat limited: there was ham radio, or you could blow things ...

You know what’s not fun? Sorting LEGO. You know what is fun? Making a machine to sort LEGO! That’s what [LegoSpencer] did, ...

Amiga and Atari fans used to lord over their Apple-eating brethren the fact that Cupertino never moved to the most advanced ...

Changing the pads on your car’s brakes is a pretty straightforward and inexpensive process on most vehicles. However, many ...

It’s a bit of a truism that bigger sensors lead to better pictures when it comes to photography. Of course everyone who isn’t ...

A while back [Clint Basinger] of Lazy Game Reviews fame purchased a rare 1980s Halikan laptop. When he received the parcel, ...

If you’ve ever combed boxes of old tech detritus in search of a nugget of pure gold, we know you’ll appreciate the excitement ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and ...

In this era of cheap lithium pouch cells, it might seem mildly anachronistic to build AA batteries into a project. There are ...

Old parts such as EPROMs will often find themselves for sale on sites such as eBay, where they are sometimes snapped up by ...

When we talk about HDTV, we’re typically talking about any one of a number of standards from when television made the ...