As strong and light as carbon fiber-epoxy composites are, the same can’t always be said of carbon-fiber reinforced 3D printer ...

If you used a serious computer pre-IBM PC, there was a fair chance its operating system was CP/M. CP/M was a staple among ...

Trains and the railways they run on are a great way to move lots of stuff, or lots of people, a long way. Steel wheels on ...

Les] likes lasing lasers, and who doesn’t? [Les] likes larger lasers than lots of folks, with his current project being an Nd ...

Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack 2026 brought me something entirely new: Radio. By which I don’t mean radio in terms of ...

In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the French take ...

Although Li-ion cells have become a lot cheaper over the years, if you wish to buy hundreds of high-quality ones for that performance go-kart project, you may feel financially pressured into going ...

One thing our futuristic world is largely lacking in is droids and robot companions and the like. [solitary dev] is helping to rectify that problem by building a little robot called TongDou. As ...

Circuit bending is a chaotic art. At its simplest, it can just involve making connections between random points on a circuit ...

Cycloidal gearboxes are a recurring theme in the hobbyist space due to the performance they promise in a compact package. They are capable of taking in a high-speed input and reducing it down to a set ...

As easy as it is to make a late 1980s-style game console using a modern microcontroller, there’s arguably more fun in doing ...

The NES Advantage was a cool bit of hardware back in 1987, bringing an arcade stick to the home console gaming experience. Naturally they don’t get much use these days, unless of course they’ve been ...