Imagine the power to clone your favorite LEGO piece—not just any piece, but let’s say, one that costs €50 second-hand.

It was a simpler time, when the web was going to be democratic and decentralised, you could connect your Windows 95 PC to the ...

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling ...

Have you ever dreamt of developing games that run on practically anything, from a modern browser to a microcontroller? Enter ...

We tinkerers often have ideas we know are crazy, and we make them up in the most bizarre places, too. For example, just ...

E-bikes combine a bicycle with a big lithium battery, a speed controller, and a motor. What you get from that combination is ...

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 ...

After recently putting together the paper tape reader for his custom tube-based UE1 computer, [David Lovett] did get ...

What if your keychain could tell you the temperature, all while staying battery-free? That’s the essence of this innovative ...

There are a huge number of ways to track the sun if you have some reason to do so. You can use time-based algorithms, or feed in coordinates from the Internet, or you could do it with minimal ...

Raspberry Pi just dropped the new Raspberry Pi 500, which like its predecessor puts the similarly named SBC into a keyboard.

The ‘CRT Effect’ myth says that the reason why pixel art of old games looked so much better is due to the smoothing and blending effects of cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays, which were ...