A hefty portable power bank is a handy thing to DIY, but one needs to get their hands on a number of matching lithium-ion ...

For all their education, medical practitioners sometimes forget that what’s old hat to them is new territory for their ...

It is easier than ever to produce projects with nice enclosures thanks to 3D printing and laser cutting. However, for a ...

Sean Boyce] has been busy building board games. Specifically, an electronic strategy boardgame that is miraculously also ...

If you build electronics, you will eventually need a coil. If you spend any time winding one, you are almost guaranteed to ...

Go back a generation of development, and excepting the shuttle-derived systems, all liquid rockets used RP-1 (aka kerosene) for their first stage. Now it seems everybody and their dog wants to ...

David Bloomfield] wanted to make some tweaks to an embedded system, but didn’t quite have the requisite skills. He decided to see if vibe coding could help. [David]’s goal was simple.

Sometimes you need random numbers — and properly random ones, at that. [Sean Boyce] whipped up a rig that serves up just that ...

When we think of programmable hardware, we think of FPGAs. But they’re not the only option. [Oliver Schmidt] has been exploring how the Raspberry Pi Pico can serve in such a role for the classic ...

Ah, the CAN bus. It’s become a communication standard in the automotive world, found in a huge swathe of cars built from the mid-1990s onwards. You’ll also find it in aircraft, ships, and the ...

Kitting out a full workshop can be expensive, but if you’re only working on small things, it can also be overkill. Indeed, if your machining tends towards the miniature, consider building ...

There was a time when plotters were the pinnacle of computer graphics output. While they aren’t as common as they used to be, there are some advantages to having a plotter. [Symon] wanted a ...