The early 1990s were an interesting time in the PC world, mainly because PCs were entering the zeitgeist for the first time.

At the 38th Chaos Communications Congress, [Frostie314159] and [Jasper Devreker] gave us a nice update on their project to ...

Maker’s Fun Duck] has a recent video review of a cheap thermal camera from a company called Kaiweets, which you can see below. It checked all of his boxes: It was standalone, handheld, ...

This account of running DOOM on a PCB business card isn’t really about serving the “Will it DOOM?” meme of getting the classic game to run on improbable hardware. Rather, this ...

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

When ships moved from muscle- and wind power to burning coal and other fossil fuels for their propulsion, they also became ...

We talk about Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred ...

We’re covering two weeks of news today, which is handy, because the week between Christmas and New Years is always a bit slow ...

Who would’ve thought a cheap AliExpress emergency light could be packed with such crafty design choices? Found for about $5, this unit uses simple components yet achieves surprisingly ...

Mattmopar] figured out how to get a white Christmas even if the weather isn’t frightful. He built a simple DIY snow making machine with a few plumbing parts, and tools you probably already ...

Being able to 3D print FDM objects in more than one color is a feature that is rapidly rising in popularity, assisted by various multi-filament systems that allow the printer to swap between ...

A spectrometer is a pretty common lab instrument, useful for determining the absorbance of a sample across a spectrum of ...