It is a fact of life that 3D printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers ...

Recently, a company by former SpaceX employee Ben Nowack – called Reflect Orbital – announced that it is now ready to put gigantic mirrors in space to reflect sunshine at ground-based solar farms.

We’ve been contacted by [Cedric], telling us about the smallest ARM MCU he’s ever seen – Huada HC32L110. For those of us into miniature products, this Cortex-M0+ package packs a punch (PDF ...

Steve Ballmer famously called Linux “viral”, with some not-entirely coherent complaints about the OS. In a hilarious instance ...

A little while ago Oasis was showcased on social media, billing itself as the world’s first playable “AI video game” that ...

The chances are if you know someone who is a former Apple employee, you’ll have heard their Steve Jobs anecdote, and that it ...

A characteristic of any thermal power plant — whether using coal, gas or spicy nuclear rocks — is that they have a closed ...

We just got home from Supercon and well, it was super. It was great to see everyone, and meet a whole bunch of new folks to boot! The talks were great, and you can see a good half of them already ...

Retro computing enthusiasts, rejoice! HIDman, [rasteri]’s latest open source creation, bridges the gap between modern USB input devices and vintage PCs, from the IBM 5150 to machines with ...

The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project for electronics or ...

Lightning is a powerful and seemingly mysterious force of nature, capable of releasing huge amounts of energy over relatively short times and striking almost at random. Lightning obeys the laws of ...

If you have a metal lathe just looking for some work, why not make your own lock nuts? That’s what [my mechanics insight] did ...