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 ...

If you’ve ever worked with adding lithium-ion batteries to one of your projects, you’ve likely spent some quality time with a TP4056. Whether you implemented the circuit yourself, or ...

Den Delimarsky] had a Stream Deck and wanted to be free of the proprietary software, so he reverse-engineered it. Now, he has ...

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

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

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

When ships moved from muscle- and wind power to burning coal and other fossil fuels for their propulsion, they also became ...

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 ...

What do you do when a crowdfunded product you really liked gets cancelled? Naturally, you take the idea and build your own ...

Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to [Half Burnt Toast], yes you can. But should you? Well, that’s another matter. In our experience, flux removal seems to be far ...