There have been plenty of books and movies about how the Manhattan Project brought together scientists and engineers to ...

Barrier-grid animations (also called scanimations) are a thing most people would recognize on sight, even if they didn’t know what they were called. Move a set of opaque strips over a ...

Fresh hacks here! Get your fresh hot hacks right here! Elliot and Dan teamed up this week to go through every story published ...

Energy drinks are a staple of those who want to get awake and energetic in a hurry. But what if said energy is not in enough of a hurry for your taste? After coming across a thrice concentrated ...

This should count as a hack: making music from a thing that should not sing. In this case, [SIROJU] is tickling the ivories with a Brushless DC motor, or BLDC.  To listen to a performance, jump to ...

Ultralight aviation provides an excellent pathway for those who want to fly, but don’t want to get licensed. These quite ...

These days Points of Sale (PoS) usually include a digital payment terminal of some description, some of which are positively small, such as the Mini PoS terminals that PAX sells. Of course, since ...

Developing Android applications seems like it should be fairly straightforward if you believe the glossy marketing by Google ...

The rotary evaporator (rotovap) rarely appears outside of well-provisioned chemistry labs. That means that despite being a ...

Building a computer on a breadboard is a seminal project for many builders, but it can become complicated quite quickly, not to mention that all the parts needed for a computer are being placed on ...

Do you or a loved one suffer from distorted 3D prints? Does your laser cutter produce parallelograms instead of rectangles?

The Estes line of flying model rockets have inspired an untold number of children and adults alike, thanks in part to their ...