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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

E-bikes combine a bicycle with a big lithium battery, a speed controller, and a motor. What you get from that combination is simple, efficient transportation. [Tom Stanton] wanted to build an e ...