For many people of a certain age, the DEC VAX was the first computer they ever used. They were everywhere, powerful for their ...

Is Totally a Thing Now When [coral-bells] posted her first build to r/mechanicalkeyboards, she likely felt some trepidation.

Which would you rather feel? The blast of a fire hose, or a cool, digital rain? That’s what we thought. Introducing Blue Rain ...

Those of us familiar with PCB work would agree that anything that helps hold probes secure and hands-free to components, ...

The Pebble smartwatch was introduced in 2012 as part of a Kickstarter campaign and saw moderate success before the company ...

The range of materials suitable for even the cheapest laser cutter is part of what makes them such versatile and desirable ...

In the world of large language models (LLMs) there tend to be relatively few upsets ever since OpenAI barged onto the scene ...

You can work with a part for many decades, and still learn something new about it. At least we can, and we don’t mind ...

I was fascinated by the idea of jet packs when I was a kid. They were sci-fi magic, and the idea that you could strap into an oversized backpack wrapped in tinfoil and fly around was very ...

Over the last decade we have brought you frequent reports not from the coolest of hackerspaces or the most bleeding edge of engineering in California or China, but from the rolling prairies of the ...

We’re used to those high voltage projects which use a self-oscillating transformer circuit with a TV flyback winding, and we have even at times railed against them for their inefficiency ...

AI to control a virtual computer (in this case, Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use) is made to download and execute a piece of ...