Our hacker [John Duffy] wrote in to let us know about a video he put together to explain the design of his open-source multimeter, the HydraMeter. If you’re interested in how the circuitry ...

Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks that we’d now just strap a motor or set of batteries onto and think nothing of ...

Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food we need to sustain our lives. The practice ...

For whatever reason, certain pieces of technology can have a difficult time interacting with the physical world. Anyone who has ever used a printer or copier can attest to this, as can anyone whose… ...

Do you ever look at the news, and wonder about the process behind the news cycle? I did, and for the last couple of decades ...

If you are a certain age, you probably remember the ads and publicity around Chisanbop — the supposed ancient art of Korean ...

Jonathan chats with Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss about KDE’s eco initiative and the End of 10 campaign! Is Open Source really a ...

Anthropic has had an eventful couple weeks, and we have two separate write-ups to cover. The first is a vulnerability in the ...

Ryan] purchased a large fume extractor designed to sit on the floor below the work area and pull solder fumes down into its ...

It should probably come as no surprise to anyone that the images which we look at every day – whether printed or on a display – are simply illusions. That cat picture isn’t ...

Normally you can’t read out the One Time Programming (OTP) memory in Microchip’s PIC MCUs that have code protection enabled, ...

Many people who get analog electronics still struggle a bit to design oscillators. Even common simulators often need a trick ...