Replacing a 3D printer’s extruder with a cutting blade seems like an easy way to do things like vinyl cutting, but you cannot ...

Chris Doble] has high ambitions: he’s making his own scanning-electron microscope, and as the first step he’s built a ...

Four years ago the EMF hacker camp in the UK released a new kind of event badge. The Tildagon was designed to be a recurring ...

Pallets are a wonderful way to package goods and move them around, but especially the wooden ones have a very finite lifespan ...

While many operating systems seem to try to prevent you from peeking under the hood, Unix and Linux positively encourage it.

In our search for the unusual or interesting among the world of operating systems, it might seem unexpected that today’s ...

Photogrammetry is the process of 3D scanning an object by taking a lot of photographs, then using software to turn those into ...

Imagine for a moment that the Cookie Monster is going to visit, but all the cookie baking utensils in your house have been ...

There are a lot of single board computers on the market these days, so you can be forgiven if you missed the LuckFox Lyra.

We do sometimes go on about how absurdly powerful microcontrollers are these days, but this time it’s technically a microprocessor, not a microcontroller, at the heart of the build — ...

After my recent misadventures setting up an OpenWrt installation on a scruffy e-waste-level x86 PC, quite a few people chimed ...

It’s possible to get a pretty good deal on used Toyota Prius cars, but as with all hybrid cars that also means a used battery ...