Collaborate Disseminate
[Jankbu] needed a new computer, but had little interest in purchasing a modern laptop off the shelf. Instead, it was time to build a cyberdeck with a neat modular design …read more Continue reading Sliding-Screen Cyberdeck Has Chunky, Rugged Design
[Nick Electronics] had an idea to build a stylish lamp that could transform its shape while lit. This goal was achieved beautifully with the aid of many, many filament LEDs. …read more Continue reading Transforming Lamp Built With LED Filaments
If you were around tech in the bad old days, magnets could be really bad news. They were fine on the fridge, no problem at all. Put one near a …read more Continue reading Magnets Are Bad For Hardware Again
If you’ve ever spent time in a modern BMW, you’ve probably fussed about with the goofy iDrive controller. It’s a rotary knobbery slidery thing that just never really feels that …read more Continue reading Building a Better Automotive Rotary Controller
Lots of music events these days hand out various glowing tchotchkes that flash and sync up with the performance. [Tony Goacher] has whipped up his own badges that can do …read more Continue reading Building Festival Badges That Sync Themselves Up
A potentiometer is a simple electrical device that allows resistance to be varied at will. Most everyone in the electronics field is intimately familiar with how they work on a …read more Continue reading DIY Potentiometer is a Great Teaching Aid
Once upon a time, computing was simple. You had files on a floppy disk. If you wanted to take them to a different computer, you ejected the disk from one …read more Continue reading Between-Device Sharing Still Sucks
Many of us have suffered the common experience of buying a great deal of (now very expensive) food, only to have it go off before it can be consumed. [ptallthings93] …read more Continue reading DecayDock Keeps Track of Spoilage
Magnetic fields are all around us. We can’t really feel or see them ourselves, per se, but we can map them with the right hardware, like this device built by …read more Continue reading Building A Device To Map Magnetic Fields
One of the problems with good science fiction is that it introduces us to all kinds of cool devices that we can’t actually have in real life. [Huy Vector] has …read more Continue reading Building a Pip Boy Themed Smartwatch