Collaborate Disseminate
Imagine you have a natural stream running through a low-lying area on your farm. It’s a great source of fresh water, only you really need it to irrigate some crops …read more Continue reading How Hydraulic Ram Pumps Push Water Uphill With No External Power Input
TOSLINK was developed in the early 1980s as a simple interface for sending digital audio over fiber optic cables, and despite its age, is still featured on plenty of modern …read more Continue reading Sending TOSLINK Wirelessly With Lasers
The internet has already taught us that an electric surfboard is a great way to get around on the water while looking like an absolute badass. [RCLifeOn] is continuing to …read more Continue reading Electric Surfboard Gets Thrust Vectoring Upgrade
[Mukesh Sankhla] has been tinkering in the world of Point of Sale systems of late. His latest creation is a simple, straightforward kiosk system, and he’s open sourced the design. …read more Continue reading Building An Open Source Point of Sale System
In the middle of the 20th century, the atom was all the rage. Radiation was the shiny new solution to everything while being similarly poorly understood by the general public …read more Continue reading The Hottest Spark Plugs Were Actually Radioactive
You can buy all kinds of keyboards these days, from basic big-brand stuff to obscure mechanical delicacies from small-time builders. Or, you can go the maker route, and build your …read more Continue reading An FPGA-Based Mechanical Keyboard
[Zoltan] was developing a workshop on Matter for DEF CON, and wanted to whip up a fun IoT project to go with it. His idea was simple—take a simple toy …read more Continue reading Toy Train Joins The Internet of Things
Have you ever wanted to find a Bluetooth device out in the wild while looking like the comic relief character from a science-fiction series? You might like Dendrite, the direction-finding …read more Continue reading Hard Hat Becomes Bluetooth Direction Finder
You can get all kinds of great wildlife footage if you trek out into the woods with a camera, but it can be tough to stay awake all night. However, …read more Continue reading A Trail Camera Built With Raspberry Pi
GUI design can be a tedious job, requiring the use of specialist design tools and finding a suitable library that fits your use case. If you’re looking for a lightweight …read more Continue reading Creating Python GUIs with GIMP