When a new technology first arrives in people’s hands, it often takes a bit of time before the full capabilities of that ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

To the average microcontroller, Ethernet networks are quite a step up from the basic I2C, SPI and UART interfaces, requiring either a built-in Ethernet MAC or SPI-based MAC, with tedious ...

At some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, you’ve either got to increase ...

RS485 is a communication standard that should be part of the advanced hardware hacker’s arsenal; it’s not commonly encountered, but powerful exactly when you need it. It’s a physical layer ...