Over the past years there have appeared in the media increasingly more alarming reports about micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) ...

Most solar lights are cheap garbage that exist just to put more microplastics into the environment as they degrade in short order. [Jeremy Cook] built his own solar light, however, and this one ...

Like many of you, I have a hard time getting rid of stuff. I’ve got boxes and boxes of weirdo bits and bobs, and piles of ...

Why press many button when few button do trick? That was the thinking of [Bike Cook Robots] when it came time to revamp his ...

Walkie-talkies are great fun, and [RealCorebb]’s bbTalkie project takes the concept a step further by adding some extremely ...

You’ve likely seen an X-cube, a dichoric prism used to split light into its constituent colours–you know, those fun little ...

For a full-fledged, bells-and-whistles driving simulator a number of unique human interface devices are needed, from pedals and shifters to the steering wheel. These steering wheels often have ...

In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them. Whereas the 6502 used separate circuits for operations, and the Intel 8085 a clump ...

If you’re an old-schooler, you might still go to the local bar and pay for a beer with cash. You could even try and pay with ...

When it comes to electromagnetic waves, humans can really only directly perceive a very small part of the overall spectrum, which we call “visible light.” [rootkid] recently built an ...

In a recent video [QWZ Labs] demonstrates an interesting technique to use 3D printing to make creating custom PCBs rather ...

Home automation with high usefulness and low annoyance tends to rely on reliable person sensing, and [francescopace]’s ...