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 ...

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

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

Thunderstorms were raging across southern Germany as Elliot Williams was joined by Jenny List for this week’s podcast. The ...

Ever want to find your device on the map? Think we all do sometimes. The technology you’ll generally use for that is called ...

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

Recently, [Solder Hub] put together a brief video that demonstrates the basics of a Hall Effect sensor — in this case, one ...

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 ...

When you think about highly-precise actuators, stepper motors probably aren’t the first device that comes to mind. However, ...