Ayushmaan] states up front that most of his free time is spent “building things that probably didn’t need to exist”. Well, ...

Powered machinery started the industrial revolution, and it was automation that kicked it up another notch in the 20th ...

Once upon a time a doorbell was little more than a button, a transformer, and a bell tucked somewhere around the house. These ...

As popular as the Nintendo Switch and its sequel are, it’s hard to argue that its click-on Joy-Con controllers are ergonomic, ...

Your desk or bench is a work area, so why not make it look the part? That’s the idea behind the miniature blinking traffic barrels that [Glen Akins] recently put together. Of course, just a ...

Here’s a historical hack for you: you have a big, rolling pressurized kettle, also known as a steam locomotive. It needs water to make up for the steam constantly chuff-chuff-chuffing away, ...

As awesome as trebuchets are, the fact that medieval engineers didn’t create versions capable of launching supersonic projectiles is a bit of a bummer. Fortunately it’s possible to correct this ...

It’s often claimed that wearable devices cannot have user-replaceable batteries or even be serviceable at all due to how ...

Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see. You might put it in ...

As someone who disassembles and repairs hardware, [Aad] eventually ended up with a huge collection of mixed bolts and screws.

If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race for the moon. You can capture some of it by watching “Lunar Bridgehead,” a film about JPL ...