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

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

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

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 ...

This one isn’t clickbait, but it is cheating. [Brian Haidet], the guy behind Alpha Phoenix, has managed to assemble movie ...

But did you know that pi has an evil twin represented by the symbol ϖ? As [John Carlos Baez] explains, it and its related ...

Despite the latest and greatest Intel-derived computers having multi-core 64-bit processors and unimaginably fast peripherals ...

Over the last few decades, electronic devices have drastically changed. Radios that once had point-to-point wiring gave way ...

In this era of cheap turn-key machines, the idea of actually building your own desktop 3D printer might seem odd to some. But if you’re looking for a challenge, and want to end up with a ...

It’s really never too early (or too late) to learn time management. All joking aside, carefully managing one’s time can result in some really wondrous achievements. So it’s best ...

Whether you only dabble in electronics as a hobby or it’s your full-time job, there are few tools as indispensable as the ...

We know, you’ve already got a USB to serial adapter. Probably several of them, in fact. But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t ...