What’s the most important keyboard macro you know? Honestly, it’s probably Ctrl-S. But do you use that one often enough?

Tis the season for soldering! At least at my house. My son and I made some fairly LED-laden gifts for the immediate relatives last year, and he’s got the blinky bug. We were brainstorming what we ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to ...

It’s one of the great tragedies of our technological era. Smartphones that feature an incredible amount of computational ...

If you want to reverse engineer the boards in a modern console, you’d better have a lab, a lot of fancy gear, and a good few ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since the construction of the first commercial light water nuclear power plants (LWR) the design of their fuel rods hasn’t changed significantly. Mechanically robust and corrosion-resistant ...