Collaborate Disseminate
[Will Dana] is engineering his way to better sleep hygiene. Not satisfied with a simple bedtime reminder notification — such things are easily dismissed, after all — [Will] is offloading …read more Continue reading This Bedtime Bot Enforces Better Sleep Hygiene
There you are at the surplus store, staring into the bin of faded orange, yellow, red, and black, boxes–a treasure trove of vintage vacuum tubes—dreaming about building a tube amp …read more Continue reading This board helps you prototype circuits with tubes
Business cards, on the whole, haven’t changed significantly over the past 600-ish years, and arguably are not as important as they used to be, but they are still worth considering …read more Continue reading This Ouija Business Card Helps You Speak to Tiny Llamas
Do you feel nostalgia for a childhood novelty toy that had potential but ultimately fell short of its promise? Do you now have the skills to go make a better …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: Building a Better Jumping Bean
[Tom] has taken a DIY approach to smart sailing with a Raspberry Pi as the back end to the navigation desk on his catamaran, the SeaHorse. Tucked away neatly in …read more Continue reading DIY Navigation System Floats this Boat
[Ryan] of [Fat Lip Collective] has been on a streak of using 3D printing for his car mod projects. From spark plug adapters to exhaust pipes to dash panels, his …read more Continue reading 3D Printer Turbo-Charges a Vintage Vehicle
Maybe your goal is to preserve the heyday of rail travel with a precise scale replica of a particular railroad station. Maybe you’re making a hyper-local edition of Monopoly in …read more Continue reading Photogrammetry takes to the skies
It is a well-known reality of rescuing certain older electronic devices that, at some point, you’re likely going to have to replace a busted capacitor. This is the stage [Kevin] …read more Continue reading Kludge Compensates for Kaput Component with Contemporary Capacitor
It might be too soon to consider the innards of the old CRT monitor at the back of your closet to be something worth putting on display in your home …read more Continue reading Foil Leyden Jar Helps Bring Crookes Tube to Life
Alvin Lucier was an American experimental composer whose compositions were arguably as much science experiments as they were music. The piece he is best known for, I Am Sitting in …read more Continue reading Posthumous Composition Being Performed by the Composer