Over at the University of Wisconsin’s Undergraduate Projects Lab (UPL) there’s been a way to check whether this room is open ...

These days displays are increasingly expected to be bidirectional devices, accepting not only touch inputs, but also to ...

Automating tasks with a robot sounds appealing, but not everyone has the budget for an Aismo or Kuka. [FABRI Creator] has a great tutorial on how to build your own mini robotic arm for small, ...

For those of us devoted to keeping an older vehicle on the road, the struggle is real. We know that at some point, a part ...

Fundamentally, an artificial intelligence (AI) is nothing more than a system that takes a series of inputs, makes some ...

The Vectrex was a unique console from the early 1980s. Developed by a company you’ve probably never heard of—Smith Engineering—it was put into production by General Consumer Electronics, and ...

Sam Battle] is no stranger to these pages, nor is his Museum is not Obsolete. The museum was recently gifted an enormous Nixie tube created by Dalibor Farný, a B-grade (well, faulty) unit that ...

What does it take to make decent tires for your projects? According to this 3D printed tire torture test, it’s actually ...

Schematic version of on-site wastewater analysis using the microfluidic strips (Credit: Yuwei Pan et al., Cell, 2024) Wastewater sampling has become a popular way over the years to keep track of ...

Cumming] might not be the first person to thumb through an old book and find an IBM punched card inside. But he might be the ...

The Braun TS2 radio was a state-of-the art tube set in 1956. Today it still looks great, but unsurprisingly, the one that ...

What color are the street lights in your town? While an unfortunate few still suffer under one of the awful colors offered by vapor discharge lamps, like the pink or orange of sodium or the ...