There are lots of switches that you can use with your smarthome. Some might not be compatible with the wiring in your house, ...

Not every project has to be complicated– reinventing the wheel has its place, but sometimes you find a module or two that ...

Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers.

During World War II, as the Allies planned the invasion of Normandy, there was one major hurdle to overcome—logistics. In ...

Assuming you’re not stuck in a prison cell without windows, you could feasibly keep track of the moon and tides by walking ...

We’ve all been there. You’ve found a beautiful piece of older hardware at the thrift store, and bought it for a song. You ...

Wago connectors are somewhat controversial in the electrical world—beloved by some, decried by others. The company knows it has a dedicated user base, though, and has established the Wago Creators ...

Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind [Bertrand Selva]’s clever LoRaTube project. LoRa is a fantastic solution ...

Want to know if somebody is lying? It’s always so hard to tell. [dbmaking] has whipped up a fun little polygraph, otherwise known as a lie detector. It’s nowhere near as complex as the ...

Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashioned. But Encyclopædia Britannica has a complete ...

A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath.

The Pebble was the smartwatch darling of the early 2010s, a glimpse of the future in the form of a microcontroller and screen ...