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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Some disappointing, but perhaps not entirely unsurprising news this week out of Denmark — after announcing last year that ...

With the topic of marble clocks having been quite well explored at this point, it raises the question of how easy it would be ...

Telephony is a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, being able to talk to people in far off places is kind of neat, at least ...

Some of the first remote controls available to consumers used sound, visible light, or even just wires to communicate with their parent device. It was many years between these first rudimentary ...