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

In general, military gear is designed to be rugged and reliable. A side effect of this is that the equipment usually has a ...

Among the current challenges with creating quantum computers is that the timespan that a singular qubit remains coherent is quite limited, restricting their usefulness. Usually such qubits consist ...

A spectrometer is a pretty common lab instrument, useful for determining the absorbance of a sample across a spectrum of ...

If you’ve ever worked with adding lithium-ion batteries to one of your projects, you’ve likely spent some quality time with a TP4056. Whether you implemented the circuit yourself, or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...