In some parts of the world it’s common for cell service providers to sell new phones at a price significantly below market value, with the caveat that these phones are locked to that service ...

We’ve covered etch-a-sketch robots before, but usually they’re not quite as fast as [Every Flavor of Robot]’s “video” ...

People seem to be rather into the Unitree Go2 quadruped robot, if only for the low price tag. But perhaps more interesting are the motors that propel it — they appear to be similar to the Go1’s ...

You’ve probably heard of the Flipper Zero, a pocket-sized device that packs in lots of great hacking potential. The team ...

Once upon a time, computing was simple. You had files on a floppy disk. If you wanted to take them to a different computer, ...

There are a surprising number of experiments an amateur nuclear physicist can perform, from making a Geiger counter to fusing hydrogen atoms in a fusor. One project which we haven’t seen before is ...

My old friend Jeff was always vocally upset that he didn’t come up with the idea of a string trimmer, commonly known as a ...

Typically, when we think of touch screens, we think of LCDs or OLEDs with a resistive or capacitive sensing layer laid over ...

Some people who have a hankering to run GEM/TOS applications might just fire up an emulator, or maybe coax an old Motorola 68k-based Atari ST system back to life. Then there are people like ...

If you just want to play with a Rubik’s Cube, you can simply buy one from a local toy store. If you want to build one, you ...

Processor design over the last few decades has moved toward RISC processors that aim to implement a few simple operations very efficiently. For a while, though, the trend was toward ...

As fun as ARM and RISC-V single-board computers (SBCs) are, all too often getting the most out of the hardware requires the ...