Category: Tech

Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the decades we have seen a lot of methods for powering LEGO-based contraptions, ranging from LEGO Technic pneumatics to electric motors, but what about

Reading Time: 2 minutesTagging wildlife is never straightforward in the best of times, but it becomes a great deal more complicated when you’re trying to track flying insects.

Reading Time: 5 minutesEveryone has a standard for publishing projects, and they can get pretty controversial. We see a lot of people complain about hacks embedded in YouTube

Reading Time: 2 minutesEconomists have this idea that we live in an efficient market, but it’s hard to fathom that when disposable vapes are equipped with rechargeable lithium

Reading Time: 6 minutesMuch like the introduction of the personal computer, the internet, and the iPhone into the public sphere, recent developments in the AI space, from generative

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen we talk about HDTV, we’re typically talking about any one of a number of standards from when television made the paradigm switch from analog

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe older Raspberry Pi boards have had a long life, serving faithfully since 2012. Frankly, their continued support is a rarity these days — it’s

Reading Time: 11 minutesIn a recent newsletter, Ben Thompson suggested paying attention to a portion of Jensen Huang’s keynote at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in DC, calling

Reading Time: 2 minutesFor those of us hackers who have gone down a machining rabbit hole, we all know how annoying it can be to over-machine a part.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSpectravideo is not exactly the most well-known microcomputer company, but they were nevertheless somewhat active in the US market from 1981 to 1988. Their computers

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHandheld computers have become very much part of the hardware hacker scene, as the advent of single board computers long on processor power but short

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe header image above shows a completely unsupported 3D-printed bridge, believe it or not. You’re looking at the bottom of the print. [Make Wonderful Things]