Video games, movies, and modern militaries are all full of robotic gun turrets that allow for remotely-controlled carnage. [Paul Junkin] decided to build his own, albeit in a less-destructive ...

The clicking of a Geiger counter is well enough known as a signifier of radioactive materials, due to it providing the ...

This summer, we saw the WHY (What Hackers Yearn) event happen in Netherlands, of course, with a badge to match. Many badges ...

We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or ...

Modern motherboards don’t come with ISA slots, and almost everybody is fine with that. If you really want one, though, there ...

When picking operating systems for a closer look here in the Daily Drivers series, the aim has not been to merely pick the next well-known Linux distro off the pile, but to try out the ...

The late and lamented [Bob Pease] was one of a select band of engineers, each of whose authority in the field of analogue integrated circuit design was at the peak of the art. So when he remarks ...

The vast majority of model rockets go vaguely up and float vaguely downwards without a lot of control. However, [newaysfactory] built a few rockets that were altogether more precise in their ...

There are many incredible open-source robotic arm projects out there, but there’s a dearth of affordable, stable, and mobile robotic platforms with arms. That’s where XLeRobot comes ...

Dhananjay Gadre] happened across a useful little trick the other day. Take any old 1N4148 or 1N914 glass-package signal diode ...

These days just about any battery storage solution connected to PV solar or similar uses LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries. The reason ...

If you haven’t lived underneath a rock for the past decade or so, you will have seen a lot of arguing in the media by ...