When you hear it said that “Modern steel is disposable by design”, your ears perk up, as you just caught the unmistakable ...

When you go on your favorite cheap online shopping platform and order a batch of  74LS logic ICs, what do you get? Most ...

To our younger readers, a car without an all-touchscreen “infotainment” system may look clunky and dated, but really, you kids don’t know what they’re missing. Buttons, ...

One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

When you think of a US Nuclear accident, you probably think of Three Mile Island. However, there have been over 50 accidents of varying severity in the US, with few direct casualties. (No one died ...

There are various CAD challenges out there that come with bragging rights. Some, like the Certified Solid Works Professional Exam (CWSP) might actually look good on a resume. [Deltahedra] is ...

For most of us, the days of having to insert a disc to play our media are increasingly behind us. But if you’d like to provide your kids with the experience, you could use CardFlix. For the ...

When you are capturing audio from a speaker, you are rarely capturing the actual direct output of such a system. There are reflections and artifacts caused by anything and everything in the ...

The iconic X-wing ship design from Star Wars is something many a hobbyist have tried to recreate, and not always with success. While [German engineer] succeeded in re-imagining an FPV quadcopter ...

The clicking of a Geiger counter is well enough known as a signifier of radioactive materials, due to it providing the ...

Modern motherboards don’t come with ISA slots, and almost everybody is fine with that. If you really want one, though, there ...

If you haven’t lived underneath a rock for the past decade or so, you will have seen a lot of arguing in the media by ...