Modern remote control (RC) radios are capable of incredible range, but they’re still only made for line-of-sight use. What if ...

Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were ...

You probably get a few of these things each week in the mail. And some of them actually do a good job of obscuring the contents inside, even if you hold the envelope up to the light. But have you ...

Face it, we’ve all been there, in a crowded workshop building something, and horror of horrors, things are going to get a ...

The primary feature of stepper motors is listed right within their name: their ability to ‘step’ forwards and backwards, ...

Want to see some wildly skillful LEGO construction? Check out [Banana Gear Studios]’ omni-directional treadmill which showcases not only how such a thing works, but demonstrates some pretty ...

Imagine a clock where the colors aren’t from LEDs but a physics phenomenon – polarization. That’s just what [Mosivers], a physicist and electronics enthusiast, has done with the Polarizer ...

We always enjoy videos from the [Mathologer], but we especially liked the recent video on the Helicone, a toy with a surprising connection to mathematics. The toy is cool all by itself, but the ...

With 2024 now officially in the history books, it’s time to take our traditional look back and reflect on some of the top ...

We are deeply intuitively familiar with our everyday physical world, so it was perhaps a bit of a surprise when researchers ...

The Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) is an ESP32 development board that’s been making the rounds for a while now, thanks to its ...

It’s been a good 2025 so far! I just got back from Chaos Communication Congress, which is easily my favorite gigantic hacker ...