When it comes to seaborne propulsion, one simple layout has largely dominated over all others. You pair some kind of engine ...

Much like how BusyBox crams many standard Unix commands and a shell into a single executable, so too does BreezyBox provide a ...

The Commodore Amiga was famous for its characteristic Say voice, with its robotic enunciation being somewhat emblematic of ...

Why Coils Resist Change. The less often used of the passive components, the humble and mysterious inductor is the subject of ...

GizmoThrill] shows off a design for an absolutely gorgeous, high-fidelity replica of the main character’s helmet from the ...

The heat pump has become a common fixture in many parts of modern life. We now have reverse-cycle air conditioning, heat pump hot water systems, and even heat pump dryers. These home appliances ...

When you think of a toy tractor, what probably comes to mind is something with fairly simple lines, maybe the iconic yellow and green, big rear tires, small front ones. Well, that’s exactly ...

Macropads can be as simple as a few buttons hooked up to a microcontroller to do the USB HID dance and talk to a PC. However, you can go a lot further, too. [CNCDan] demonstrates this well with ...

A quiet shift over the last couple of decades in many places has been the disappearance of the traditional copper phone line. First the corded landline phone was replaced by cordless, then the ...

Helium is inert, which makes it useful in a lot of different industries. But helium’s colorless and odorless non-reactivity ...

It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory. Productivity over the past years had been ...

Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts ...