With the rise of synthetic polymers in everywhere from clothing, packaging and beyond, we have also seen a corresponding rise ...

When you look into the night sky, you can’t help but wish to bring the outer worlds to your doorstep. One of the best ways to do that is to photograph the Moon’s surface to display in a frame. However ...

Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled. 3D printing the aircraft isn’t that odd these days, but putting ...

Last time, we looked at getting started with the GOWIN tools and a Tang Nano 20K FPGA. The software from GOWIN isn’t bad, but ...

It must be April in October again, because Google Japan has a new, hilariously impractical reimagining of the keyboard: a ...

A lot of the retrocomputing world is focused on the 1980s, and for good reason– the home computer revolution was in full swing in that decade, and there is a veritable Cambrian Explosion of ...

Perhaps the most famous of all the software-defined radio (SDR) receivers is the RTL-SDR, a digital TV receiver on which an undocumented feature was found. Perhaps other radio-enabled chips also ...

Optical media may be dead for video games on the big corporate consoles, but not in [Emmet]’s heart– or on his DIY game ...

Love it or hate it, Vim, the vi-compatible minimalist editor, is a common denominator between a huge array of operating ...

How easy is it to build a simple demonstration at home that proves fundamental law of physics, such as Coulomb’s inverse square law, or Maxwell’s equations? This is one of those ...

The Mike Stuff] has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of ...

Unless it’s automated or using some other form of high-tech trickery, a vegetable garden isn’t exactly the sort of thing ...