Most of us learned to design circuits with schematics. But if you get to a certain level of complexity, schematics are a pain ...

The word “Schlieren” is German, and translates roughly to “streaks”. What is streaky photography, and why might you want to use it in a project? And where did this funny term come ...

Once upon a time, typing “www” at the start of a URL was as automatic as breathing. And yet, these days, most of us go ...

It’s the podcast so nice we recorded it twice! Despite some technical difficulties (note to self: press the record button significantly before recording the outro), Elliot and Dan were able ...

The Intel 8051 series of 8-bit microcontrollers is long-discontinued by its original manufacturer, but lives on as a core ...

Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage discharges being a major risk to buildings, ...

A quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, ...

Not too long ago, I was searching for ideas for the next installment of the “Big Chemistry” series when I found an article ...

They might call it Levity, but there’s nothing funny about Rapid Liquid Print’s new silicone 3D printer. It has to be seen to be believed, and luckily [3D Printing Nerd] gives us lots ...

If you take two objects with fairly smooth surfaces, and put these together, you would not expect them to stick together. At ...

Cryptographic messaging has been in the news a lot recently. Like the formal audit of WhatsApp (the actual PDF). And the ...

No, see, it’s what’s inside that counts. Believe it or not, [nobutternoparm] retrofitted this innocent, adorable little ...