Imagine the power to clone your favorite LEGO piece—not just any piece, but let’s say, one that costs €50 second-hand.

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling ...

It was a simpler time, when the web was going to be democratic and decentralised, you could connect your Windows 95 PC to the ...

E-bikes combine a bicycle with a big lithium battery, a speed controller, and a motor. What you get from that combination is ...

After recently putting together the paper tape reader for his custom tube-based UE1 computer, [David Lovett] did get ...

It’s one of the great tragedies of our technological era. Smartphones that feature an incredible amount of computational ...

What’s the most important keyboard macro you know? Honestly, it’s probably Ctrl-S. But do you use that one often enough?

Raspberry Pi just dropped the new Raspberry Pi 500, which like its predecessor puts the similarly named SBC into a keyboard.

If you want to reverse engineer the boards in a modern console, you’d better have a lab, a lot of fancy gear, and a good few ...

You might have heard of electrets being used in microphones, but do you know what they are? Electrets produce a semi-permanent static electric field, similar to how a magnet produces a magnetic field.

Ever wonder how those scratch and sniff stickers manage to pack a punch of aroma into what looks like ordinary paper? The technology behind it is deceptively clever, and has been used everywhere ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) was founded to support moonshot projects in the realm of energy, with a portfolio that ranges from the ...