We are always fascinated by bubble memory. In the late 1970s, this was the “Next Big Thing” that, as you may have guessed, ...

Prototyping is a personal affair, with approaches ranging from dead-bug parts on tinplate through stripboard and protoboard, ...

We’ve seen plenty of motor projects, but [Jeremy]’s DIY Tubular Linear Motor is a really neat variety of stepper motor in a format we certainly don’t see every day. It started as ...

Another day, another Internet-connected gadget that gets abandoned by its creators. This time it’s Jooki — a screen-free ...

Detecting single photons can be seen as the backbone of cutting-edge applications like LiDAR, medical imaging, and secure optical communication. Miss one, and critical information could be lost ...

We use ARM devices in everything from our microcontroller projects to our laptops, and many of us are aware of the architecture’s humble beginnings in a 1980s Acorn Archimedes computer. ARM ...

USB flash drives get cheaper and hold more data. Unfortunately, they don’t always get faster. The reality is, many USB 3.0 ...

Anyone will tell you that as hard as it is to create a working system, the real trick is making two systems talk to each other, especially if you created only one or none of them. That’s why ...

Lithium technology has ushered in a new era of batteries with exceptionally high energy density for a reasonably low cost.

The Pomdoro technique of time management has moved on a little from the tomato-shaped kitchen timer which gave it a name, as ...

When attempting to secure something, whether it’s a computer, sensitive data, or valuables, there’s always going to be a way ...

It might not be Pi Day anymore, but Elliot and Dan got together for the approximately 100*Pi-th episode of the Podcast to run ...