I had to do something I haven’t done in a long, long time: make myself a custom PCB the old-fashioned way, with laser toner ...

Chris] had an idea. When playing VR games like BeatSaber, he realized that spectators without headsets weren’t very included in the action. He wanted to create some environmental lighting ...

Money, status, or even survival – there’s no shortage of incentives for faking results in the scientific community. What can ...

Lego! It’s a fun toy that is popular around the world. What you may not realize is that it’s also made to incredibly high ...

Nerf blasters typically fire small foam darts or little foam balls. [Michael Pick] wanted to build something altogether more devastating. To that end, he created a rocket launcher with an advanced ...

It’s usually not a good sign when your downloaded theme contains obfuscated code. Yes, we’re talking about the very popular ...

Unless you handle the backups for a large corporation, bank, or government entity, you likely haven’t stored much data to ...

Nickel contamination can render soils infertile at levels that are currently impractical to treat. Researchers at UMass Amherst are looking at how plants can help these soils and source nickel for ...

If you’ve ever seen those cheap LED fiber optic wands at the dollar store, you’ve probably just thought of them as a simple novelty. However, as [Ancient] shows us, you can turn them ...

River tables are something we’ve heard decried as a passé, but we’re still seeing some interesting variations on the technique. Take this example done with bronze instead of epoxy.

Over the years there have been many different audio amplifier designs which have found favour for a while and then been ...

Nanostructured metamaterials have shown a lot of promise in what they can do in the lab, but often have fatal stress ...