When you think about nuclear radiation, you often think about power plants, but it turns out there’s radioactive stuff all ...

Devices from the likes of Google and Amazon can be used as high-tech alarm clocks that can show the weather and family photos ...

These days, it is easy enough to get a flash cart for your Game Boy that makes it easy to run code — yours or otherwise — on ...

Maybe you are old enough to remember Zoltar in an arcade, or perhaps you’re just a fan of the movie Big. Either way, maybe ...

Laser harps aren’t quite a right of passage, in that not everyone builds them, but it’s likely everyone at least contemplates building one at one time or another. We’re lucky that [Derrick] a.k.a. [DJ ...

Do you have old landline phones laying around the house, with touchtone buttons or rotary dials? Perhaps you’d like to do something with them! [Scott Dylewski] has built hardware to let you do just ...

The Tang Nano 9K is a cheap FPGA development board that can usually be acquired for around $15 or so. [ThePartsBin] has been experimenting with this hardware and figured out how to set it up as a ...

Mr Carlson’s Lab] saves a Fluke Model 407 high-voltage power supply from the scrap heap, and demonstrates carefully ...

Rockets certainly have a substantial impact if you ever see a launch in person. The noise, shock waves, and even heat can be ...

Despite not being inherently any better at converting electricity into heat, induction-heated soldering irons often ...

We all have our childhood heroes, which in the case of [Hrvoje Cavrak] was the 1985 AT&T UNIX PC. This 18 kg behemoth of a ...

If you’ve ever wondered about the planes flying above your head, you could always listen in to ADS-B transmissions to learn ...