Phase-coherent lasers are crucial for many precision tasks, including timekeeping. Here on Earth the most stable optical ...

You may or may not be reading this on a smartphone, but odds are that even if you aren’t, you own one. Well, possess one, ...

Running a nuclear power plant isn’t an easy task, even with the level of automation available to a 1980s Soviet RBMK reactor.

Old desk phones are fairly useless these days unless you’re building a corporate PBX in your house. However, they can be fun ...

One of the ongoing rumors and scandals in professional cycle sport concerns “motor doping” — the practice of concealing an ...

Nobody likes power cords, and batteries always need recharging or replacing. What if your device could run on only the power ...

Before it became viable to distribute and play music tracks on home computers, the use of FM and Wavetable synthesis was very common, with MIDI Wavetable-based devices like the Roland MT-32 and ...

If you’ve ever used a ballpoint pen with a clip on the top, you’ve probably noticed they bend pretty easily. The clip relies on you only bending it a small amount to clip it on to ...

If all you want is just a basic WiFi extender that gets some level of network connectivity to remote parts of your domicile, then it might be tempting to get some of those $5, 300 Mbit extenders ...

A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...

Recently the Myrient game video archive announced that they’re shutting down on March 31st of this year, for a couple of ...

The construction of a large language model (LLM) depends on many things: banks of GPUs, vast reams of training data, massive amounts of power, and matrix manipulation libraries like Numpy. For ...