Ever wanted your own X-ray machine? Of course you have! Many of us were indoctrinated with enticing ads for X-ray specs and ...

The phones most of us carry around in our pockets every day hold a surprising amount of computing power. It’s somewhat taken for granted now that we can get broadband in our hands in most ...

Sitting in front of a computer all day isn’t exactly what the firmware between our ears was tuned to do. We’re supposed to be ...

An electric typewriter is a rare and wonderful thrift store find, and even better if it still works. Unfortunately, there’s ...

The first Philadelphia Maker Faire was extremely impressive, and seemed poised to be one of the premier maker events on the East Coast. Unfortunately, it had the misfortune of happening just a few ...

If you want to get started in microfluidic robotics, [soiboi soft’s] salamander is probably too complex for a first project. But it is impressive, and we bet you’ll learn something ...

Morten] works very fast. He has already designed, fabbed, populated, and tested a breakout board for the new tiniest ...

IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] ...

Many years ago, audio equipment came with a tone control, a simple RC filter that would cut or boost the bass to taste. As time passed, this was split into two controls for bass and treble, and ...

We know you’ve seen them: the time-lapses that show a 3D print coming together layer-by-layer without the extruder taking up ...

David] sent us a tip about a company in Belgium, Citronics, that is looking to turn old cellphones into single-board ...

The console wars of the early 1990s had several players, but the battle that mattered was between Nintendo’s SNES and Sega’s Genesis, or Megadrive if you are European. They are both ...