When you think of making something using a lathe,  you usually think of turning a screw, a table leg, or a toothpick. [Uri ...

Many things have combined to make very high-frequency RF gear much more common, cheaper, and better performing. Case in point ...

We talk about Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred ...

LEGO bricks might look simplistic, but did you know there’s an actual science behind their sizes? Enter LDUs — LEGO Draw ...

We’re covering two weeks of news today, which is handy, because the week between Christmas and New Years is always a bit slow ...

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

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

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

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 ...

When it comes to dominating offroad performance, many people’s first thought is of tracked vehicles. Bulldozers, tanks and excavators all use treads, and manage to get around in difficult ...

USB-C eliminates proprietary barrel plug chargers that we’ve been using for laptops and myriads of other devices. It fights proprietary phone charger standards by explicitly making them non ...

“They don’t make them like they used to.” It might be a cliché, it might not even be entirely true, but there’s something special about owning a piece of hardware that was built to a much ...