Small cylindrical parts are often formed through deep drawing — a process by which a punch forms the finished piece from a ...

You’ve doubtless seen those ubiquitous clock modules, especially when setting clocks for daylight savings time. You know the ...

Imagine cooling your building with the same principle that kept Victorian-era icehouses stocked with lake-frozen blocks, but ...

If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its ...

Getting a robot to stand on two wheels without tipping over involves a challenging dance with the laws of physics.

If you’ve ever been configuring a router or other network device and noticed that you can set up IPv4 and IPv6, you might have wondered what happened to IPv5. Well, thanks to [Navek], you ...

Have you been to FOSDEM? It’s a yearly two-day megaconference in Brussels, every first weekend of February. Thousands of ...

Movies mirror the time they were made. [ErnieTech] asserts that we can see what people thought about computers back in 1957 ...

There’s been a lot of buzz about Meshtastic lately, and with good reason. The low-power LoRa-based network has a ton of ...

As consumers worldwide slowly make the switch from internal combustion vehicles to lower-carbon equivalents, a few concerns ...

Although most people would use C, C++ or MicroPython for programming microcontrollers, there are a few more obscure options out there as well, with MicroZig being one of them. Recently [Andrew ...

Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...