Modern motherboards don’t come with ISA slots, and almost everybody is fine with that. If you really want one, though, there ...

There are many incredible open-source robotic arm projects out there, but there’s a dearth of affordable, stable, and mobile robotic platforms with arms. That’s where XLeRobot comes ...

We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or ...

Dhananjay Gadre] happened across a useful little trick the other day. Take any old 1N4148 or 1N914 glass-package signal diode ...

If you’re really good, it’s possible to solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 10 seconds. For the rest of us, though, it can be an exceedingly tedious task. For that reason, you might ...

This project gives a whole new meaning to DIY PC. We don’t know how capable you were as a teenager, but could you have ...

Pinball machines have something for everyone. They’re engaging, fast-paced games available in a variety of sizes and ...

Before a spectrometer can do any useful work, it needs to be calibrated to identify wavelengths correctly. This is usually done by detecting several characteristic peaks or dips in a well-known ...

Multitasking is something we take for granted these days. Just about every computer we use, from our desktops to our phones, is capable of multitasking. It might sound silly to implement ...

If you’ve ever wanted to pump sound to all the rooms of your house, you might use any one of a number of commercial solutions ...

One of the most frustrating parts about flying a quadcopter is having to regularly swap battery packs, as this massively limits what you can do with said quadcopter, never mind its effective ...

For our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge there have been a set of entries which merely use a component for a purpose it wasn’t quite intended, and another which push misuse of a part into ...