An oscilloscope is usually the most sensitive, and arguably most versatile, tool on a hacker’s workbench, often taking ...

Polaroid cameras have been very popular for a very long time and are especially hot gifts this year. Fresh film is easy to ...

There are few things more American than driving a car really fast in a straight line. Occasionally, the cars will make a few ...

The “Marauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C.

For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a ...

Recently, [Jeff Geerling] dropped into the bad press feeding frenzy around Sipeed’s NanoKVM, most notably because of a ‘hidden’ microphone that should have no business on a ...

The holidays are rapidly approaching, and you probably already have a topic or two to argue with your family about. But what ...

Here’s a fun build from [RootSaid] that is suitable for people just getting started with microcontrollers and robotics — an Arduino-controlled two-wheeled robot. The video assumes you ...

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 ...

Like many of us of a certain vintage, [Dillan Stock] at The Stock Pot is nostalgic for VHS tapes. It’s not so much the fuzzy picture or the tracking issues we miss, but the physical experience the ...

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering ...

The Nintendo Switch dock set a new bar for handheld docking user experience – just plug your console in to charge it, output image to your monitor, and keep it working with any USB peripherals of your ...