If we care to cast an eye over the history of ubiquitous personal computing as we know it today, we might immediately point ...

The humble credit card reader — most of us have used hundreds, perhaps even thousands of them over the years. But even for ...

Bridges! We kind of expect them to just be there and do their job, ad infinitum. They are built into the landscape, and we ...

Airborne micro particles can be a significant health hazard in a workshop, and thus it’s important to maintain a high ...

Trucks are handy, especially if you’ve got messy or dirty loads, but there aren’t a lot of options if you want a small ...

There are some devices which achieve electronic immortality, it’s likely that you have used a few of them yourself. The 555 ...

Angus] of Maker’s Muse enjoys combat robotics, in which contenders zip about in an arena, attempting to disable one another ...

Infrared (IR) communication technologies are probably one of the most influential, yet also one of the least flashiest. The fact that IR communication tends to be highly directional and often ...

Mipmapping is a good way to add a lot more detail to a 3D scene without overburdening the rendering hardware with detail that won’t be seen by the user. This level-of-detail rendering technique was ...

Like more than a few of us , [Kevin Noki] is sick of being pulled out of flow state by that annoyingly addictive black rectangle we all carry around. His solution was to build a phone to escape his ...

The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a few decades ago. And, ...

Although graphene gives diamond a solid run for its money when it comes to being the most useful assembly of carbon atoms, both have the distinct property of material scientists still trying to figure ...