As hardware ages, it becomes harder and harder to keep it in service. Whether that’s because of physical aging or lack of ...

Laser-engraving a cylindrical object usually requires a rotary attachment, which is a motorized holder that rotates a cylindrical object in sync with the engraver. But [Samcraft] shows that ...

Just about every electronic device has some silicon semiconductors inside these days—from transistors to diodes to integrated ...

Repairing radios was easier when radios were simple. There were typically two strategies. You could use a signal tracer (an amplifier) to listen at the volume control. If you heard something, the ...

Maya Posch] wrote up an insightful, and maybe a bit controversial, piece on the state of consumer goods design: The Death Of ...

Adding a camera to a project used to be a chore, but modern camera modules make it simple. But what if you want to read QR ...

Ethernet is how we often network computers together, particularly when they’re too important to leave on a fussy WiFi connection. Have you ever thought about listening to Ethernet signals, ...

You can buy all kinds of conventional clocks that have hands and numbers for easy reading. Or, like [Fabio Ricci], you could ...

It’s hard to argue that Soviet-Era nuclear engineering may have some small flaws, what with the heavily-monitored exclusion zone around Chernobyl No.4. Evidently, their industrial designers ...

Zines (self-produced, small-circulation publications) are extremely DIY, and therefore punk- and hacker-adjacent by nature.

Water cooling was once only the preserve of hardcore casemodders and overclockers. Today, it’s pretty routinely used in all ...

Most of us know that a quartz clock uses a higher frequency crystal oscillator and a chain of divider circuits to generate a ...