Conventional batteries have anodes and cathodes, but a new design from the University of Chicago and the University of ...

When homebrewing a CPU, one has to deal with microcode. Microcode is the low-level nuts and bolts of how, precisely, a CPU ...

If you want someone to keep your business card around, you should probably make it really cool-looking, or have it do ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The ...

These days, even hobbyist multi-rotor aircraft are capable of carrying considerable payloads. For example, the test rig that ...

On the one hand, we were impressed that a tiny Brother label maker actually uses CUPS to support printing. Like [Sdomi], we were less than impressed at how old a copy it was using – – 1.6.1. Of course ...

Most of us would equate commercial airline travel with fixed-wing aircraft, but civilian transport by helicopter, especially ...

If you’re designing a universal port, you will be expected to provide power. This was a lesson learned in the times of LPT ...

Readers of a certain vintage will no doubt remember that for a brief time, some alkaline batteries came with a built-in ...

For most of our prototype, hobby, or one-off electronics projects it’s perfectly fine to use a development platform like an ...

When you think of solar energy, you probably think of flat plates on rooftops. A company called WAVJA wants you to think of ...

We see a lot of hacks where the path to success is pretty obvious, if maybe strewn with all sorts of complications, ...