Tektronix must have been quite a place to work back in the 1980s. The company offered a bewildering selection of test ...

We ran a story about a wall-mounted plotter bot this week, Mural. It’s a simple, but very well implemented, take on a theme that we’ve seen over and over again in various forms. Two lines, or in ...

How do you get images downlinked from 30 km up? Hams might guess SSTV — slow scan TV — and that’s the approach ...

[ombates] shares a step-by-step method for making a conductive bio-string from scratch, no fancy equipment required. She ...

The sun is our planet’s source of natural illumination, and though we’ve mastered making artificial light sources, it remains ...

Radio waves travel fast, and they can bounce, too. If you are able to operate a 25-meter dish, a transmitter, a solid ...

This week, researchers from Wiz Research released a series of vulnerabilities in the Kubernetes Ingress NGINX Controller ...

When we think of 8-bit computers, it’s natural to start with home computers. That’s where they live on in the collective memory. But a Z80, a 6502, or similar was more likely to be ...

It might not be Pi Day anymore, but Elliot and Dan got together for the approximately 100*Pi-th episode of the Podcast to run through the week’s coolest hacks. Ultrasound seemed to be one of ...

Back in the early 1900s, before calculators lived in our pockets, crunching numbers was painstaking work. Adding machines existed, but they weren’t exactly convenient nor cheap. Enter Vilin ...

It doesn’t matter if its a Vespa or a Peterbilt truck — if you ignore the maintenance needs of your vehicle, you do so at ...

Suppose that you want to get rid of a whole lot of mosquitoes with a quadcopter drone by chopping them up in the rotor blades. If you had really good eyesight and pretty amazing piloting skills, ...