While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

When ships moved from muscle- and wind power to burning coal and other fossil fuels for their propulsion, they also became ...

What do you do when a crowdfunded product you really liked gets cancelled? Naturally, you take the idea and build your own ...

Den Delimarsky] had a Stream Deck and wanted to be free of the proprietary software, so he reverse-engineered it. Now, he has ...

Do you ever have clothes that you only wore for a few hours, so you don’t want to wash them, but it still seems icky to put them back in the drawer or closet? What if you had a dedicated ...

In this era of cheap turn-key machines, the idea of actually building your own desktop 3D printer might seem odd to some. But ...

Everyone likes something cheap, and when that cheap thing is a router that’s supported by OpenWRT, it sounds like a win.

Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to [Half Burnt Toast], yes you can. But should you? Well, that’s another matter. In our experience, flux removal seems to be far ...

Having a good set of (working) headlights is a crucial feature of any motor vehicle, assuming you want to be able to see the road ahead of you when there’s a lack of sunshine. Headlights are ...

There was a brief period through the 1960s into the 1970s when the last word in electronics was the calculator. New models ...

It’s a fair bet that most of us have a ton of wireless doo-dads around the house, from garage door remotes to wireless thermometers. Each of these gadgets seems to have its own idea about ...

Christmas: a good time to broach a topic of hope. We’re talking Esperanto. This language that spurred the hope it one day could hack the barriers between people, eliminating war and ...