Imagine the power to clone your favorite LEGO piece—not just any piece, but let’s say, one that costs €50 second-hand.

It was a simpler time, when the web was going to be democratic and decentralised, you could connect your Windows 95 PC to the ...

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling ...

We tinkerers often have ideas we know are crazy, and we make them up in the most bizarre places, too. For example, just ...

E-bikes combine a bicycle with a big lithium battery, a speed controller, and a motor. What you get from that combination is ...

After recently putting together the paper tape reader for his custom tube-based UE1 computer, [David Lovett] did get ...

What if your keychain could tell you the temperature, all while staying battery-free? That’s the essence of this innovative ...

Raspberry Pi just dropped the new Raspberry Pi 500, which like its predecessor puts the similarly named SBC into a keyboard.

If you want to reverse engineer the boards in a modern console, you’d better have a lab, a lot of fancy gear, and a good few ...

The widely quoted carrot factoid that the vegetable’s orange colour is the result of patriotic Dutch farmers breeding them ...

Using a disk drive today is trivial. But back “in the day,” it was fairly complex both because the drives were simple and the CPUs were not powerful by today’s standards. [Thomas] has been ...

The Raspberry Pi has come a long way since its humble origins, adding faster processors and better interfaces with each new generation. Now, the Raspberry Pi 5 has a lovely new PCIe port right on ...