Although these days it would seem that everyone and their pets are running 3D printers to churn out all the models and ...

Is it finally time to cue up the Bowie? Or was the NASA presser on Wednesday announcing new findings of potential Martian biosignatures from Perseverance just another in a long line of “We ...

Tang FPGA boards are affordable, and [nand2mario] has been trying to get an x86 core running on one for a while. Looks like it finally worked out, as there is an early version of the ao486 design ...

Handling large volumes of physical media can be a bit of a chore, whether it’s about duplication or archiving. Fortunately this is a perfect excuse for building robotic contraptions, with ...

Over a year ago, we took a look at importing a .step file of a KiCad PCB into FreeCAD, then placing a sketch and extruding it ...

There you are at the surplus store, staring into the bin of faded orange, yellow, red, and black, boxes–a treasure trove of vintage vacuum tubes—dreaming about building a tube amp for your ...

Over on his blog our hacker [Scott Baker] restores a Prompt 80, which was a development system for the 8-bit Intel 8080 CPU. ...

A barograph is a device that graphs a barometer’s readings over time, revealing trends that can predict whether stormy weather is approaching or sunny skies are on the way. This DIY Digital ...

Do you or a loved one suffer from distorted 3D prints? Does your laser cutter produce parallelograms instead of rectangles?

The 1993 Pioneer LaserActive certainly ranks high on the list of obscure video games. It was an odd duck; it used both a ...

Ultralight aviation provides an excellent pathway for those who want to fly, but don’t want to get licensed. These quite ...

Ever want to find your device on the map? Think we all do sometimes. The technology you’ll generally use for that is called ...