We’ve been loving the variety of entries to the 2025 One-Hertz Challenge. Many a clock has been entered, to be sure, but also ...

You can get cheap no-brand macropads for almost nothing now. Some of them have just a couple of keys. Others have lots of ...

We don’t know if picking blackberries at scale is something people enjoy doing. But if you do, we have bad news. The University of Arkansas wants to put you out of a job in favor of your new ...

Remy van Elst] found an obsolete bike navigation system, the Navman Bike 1000, in a thrift store for €10. The device was a ...

Over on his YouTube channel the vivacious [Stephen Hawes] tells us that we never need to buy solder stencils again! A big ...

In the retrocomputing world, [DosDude1] is a name spoken with more than a little respect. He’s back again with a long-awaited ...

Setting up a file server can be intimidating to the uninitiated. There are many servers to choose from, and then you need to decide how to install it — Docker? Kubernates? Well, what’s ...

After more than forty years, everyone knows that it’s time to retire the X Window System – X11 for short – on account of it ...

Although often glossed over, the human liver is a pretty amazing organ. Not just because it’s pretty much the sole thing that ...

From the outside, iron meteorites tend to look like formless, rusted lumps of metal, which is why museums often polish and etch sections to show their interior structure. This reveals their ...

Today, creating a ground-breaking video game is akin to making a movie. You need a story, graphic artists, music, and more. But until the middle of the 20th century, there were no video games.

Humans have long admired the sound of birdsong, but to fully appreciate how technically amazing it is, you need an ultrasonic ...