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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Certain manufacturers seriously dislike open-source firmware for their devices, and this particular hack deals with quite extreme anti-hobbyist measures. The Meraki MR33, made by Cisco, is a nice ...

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 ...

At some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, you’ve either got to increase ...