Our hero checks in at a hotel in some exotic locale, and the desk clerk says, “Ah, Mr. Barker, there’s a letter for you.” Or ...

Is 2025 finally the year of non-planar 3D printing? Maybe it won’t have to be if [Ten Tech] gets his way! Ironing is the act of going over the top surface of your print again with the ...

This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Tom Herbert about XDP2! It’s the brand new framework for making networking really fast, making parsers really simple, and making hardware network ...

A new kind of ‘camera’ is poking at the invisible world of the human body – and it’s made from the same weird crystals that ...

When Deluxe Paint came out with the original Amiga in 1985, it was the killer app for the platform. [Christopher Drum] starts ...

Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one will construct.

For nearly 90 years, American Science and Surplus has been shipping out weird and wonderful stuff to customers far and wide. In the pre-Internet days, getting their latest catalog in the mail ...

There was a recent recall of so-called ‘radioactive shrimp’ that were potentially contaminated with cesium-137 (Cs-137). But contamination isn’t an all-or-nothing affair, so you ...

Since e-ink first hit the market a couple decades back, there’s always murmurs of “that’d be great as a second monitor”— but ...

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

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

These days, most of us have a smartphone. They are so commonplace that we rarely stop to consider how amazing they truly are.