Collaborate Disseminate
Many a hacker is a fan of the cheapest calipers on the market. Manufactured in China and priced low enough that they’re virtually disposable, they get a lot of jobs …read more Continue reading Cheap Caliper Hack Keeps ‘Em Running Longer
Eyeballs are often watching us, but they’re usually embedded in the skull of another human or animal. When they’re staring at you by themselves, they can be altogether more creepy. …read more Continue reading This Eyeball Watches You Thanks To Kinect Tracking
Water is one of the most precious substances required to sustain human life. Unfortunately, in some areas like California, it’s starting to run out. The ongoing drought has some people …read more Continue reading How Practical is Harvesting Water from the Air?
These days, we seldom purchase games on physical media. Even when buying titles from yesteryear, we usually download them from an online service. Some of these older games haven’t been …read more Continue reading Fixing a Broken Game Installer By Sheer Force Of Will
One of the more popular social activities in China is group dancing in public squares. Often the pastime of many middle-aged and older women, participants are colloquially referred to as …read more Continue reading Speaker ‘Stun Gun’ Aims To Combat China’s Dancing Grannies
Many of us learn to read clocks at a young age, however, talking clocks eliminate the need to do that entirely. [Alberto] whipped up one of his own, in this …read more Continue reading Halloween-Themed Talking Clock Relies on Pi Pico
Something a lot of people don’t realise about modern smartphones is that many of them have fully-featured USB interfaces. Perhaps the best of all is the Pinephone, which is a …read more Continue reading A Tidy Clamshell Keyboard for the Pinephone
Water rockets are plenty of fun, but they can be even more fun if you go wild with the engineering. [The Q] is one such experimenter, who built a dual-thrust …read more Continue reading Building a Water Rocket That Lands Via Parachute
Often, when we think of long-endurance flights, our first thoughts jump to military operations. Big planes with highly-trained crew will fly for long periods, using air-to-air refuelling to stay aloft …read more Continue reading The Longest Ever Flight Was Over 64 Days In A Cessna 172
Anyone who has had a backyard pool will know that it only takes a little lapsed attention to turn the whole thing green. For those sick of having to stay …read more Continue reading Automating Pool Monitoring And Chemical Dosing