If you say that you’re “nuking” something, pretty much everyone will know that you mean you’re heating something in the ...

Recycling 3D filament is a great idea in theory, and we come across homemade filament extruders with some regularity, but they do have some major downsides when it comes to colored filaments. If ...

In the early days of computing, and well into the era where home computers were common but not particularly powerful, ...

One of the most paradoxical aspects of creating art is the fact that constraints, whether arbitrary or real, and whether in ...

For all their education, medical practitioners sometimes forget that what’s old hat to them is new territory for their ...

It was probably Montesquieu who coined the proto-hacker motto “the best is the mortal enemy of the good”. He was talking ...

Sometimes you need random numbers — and properly random ones, at that. [Sean Boyce] whipped up a rig that serves up just that ...

It is easier than ever to produce projects with nice enclosures thanks to 3D printing and laser cutting. However, for a ...

Go back a generation of development, and excepting the shuttle-derived systems, all liquid rockets used RP-1 (aka kerosene) for their first stage. Now it seems everybody and their dog wants to ...

Classic demos from the demoscene are all about showing off one’s technical prowess, with a common side order of a slick ...

A hefty portable power bank is a handy thing to DIY, but one needs to get their hands on a number of matching lithium-ion ...

If you build electronics, you will eventually need a coil. If you spend any time winding one, you are almost guaranteed to ...