Those of us familiar with PCB work would agree that anything that helps hold probes secure and hands-free to components, ...

Ink stamps can be fun to make and use, and 3D printers are uniquely positioned to create quality stamps of all kinds with ...

We’re used to those high voltage projects which use a self-oscillating transformer circuit with a TV flyback winding, and we have even at times railed against them for their inefficiency ...

In the world of large language models (LLMs) there tend to be relatively few upsets ever since OpenAI barged onto the scene with its transformer-based GPT models a few years ago, yet now it seems ...

Over the last decade we have brought you frequent reports not from the coolest of hackerspaces or the most bleeding edge of engineering in California or China, but from the rolling prairies of the ...

AI to control a virtual computer (in this case, Anthropic’s Claude Computer Use) is made to download and execute a piece of ...

Most of us first spot them as children—the white lines in the blue sky that are the telltale sign of a flight overhead. Contrails are an instant visual reminder of air travel, and a source of much ...

How small can an electric motor be without resorting to manufacturing methods like lithography? In a recent video, [Chronova Engineering] on YouTube tries to replicate the 1960 McLellan motor that ...

Photographic accessories are often plagued by high prices, as photography is considered a rich man’s game. It doesn’t have to ...

The ESP32 series of microcontrollers have been with us for quite a few years now, providing a powerful processor and wireless ...

The chances are that many of you will have made an FM “bug” style transmitter, a simple one-transistor oscillator usually ...

Everyone knows that the perfect capacitor to decouple the power rails around ICs is a 100 nF ceramic capacitor or equivalent, ...