If you live in a major city, you’ve probably seen a street performer with some variety of slapophone. It’s a simple musical instrument that typically uses different lengths of PVC pipe ...

One part wants 3.3V logic. Another wants 5V. What do you do? Over on the [Playduino] YouTube channel, there’s a recent video running us through a not-so-recent concern: various approaches to ...

The best part about BEV and hybrid cars is probably the bit where their electronics are taken out for a good teardown and ...

When driving around in video games, whether racing games like Mario Kart or open-world games like GTA, the game often ...

Most of us are familiar with vinyl LPs, and even with the way in which they are made by stamping a hot puck of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) into a record. But [Technostalgism] takes us all the way ...

Most humans like games. But what are games, exactly? Not in a philosophical sense, but in the sense of “what exactly are their worky bits, so we know how to make them?” [Raph Koster] ...

There are a few very different pathways to building a product, and we gotta applaud the developers taking care to take the open-source path. Today’s highlight is [Mentra], who is releasing ...

Not a huge percentage of our readers probably get their heat from diesel fuel, but it’s not uncommon in remote areas where ...

Cats can be wonderful companions, but they can also be aloof and boring to hang out with. If you want to get a little more out of the relationship, consider obsessively tracking your cat’s ...

Al and I were talking on the podcast about the Home Assistant home automation hub software. In particular, about how ...

A significant fraction of people can’t handle lactose, like [HGModernism]. Rather than accept a cruel, ice cream free ...

Did OneWire of DS18B20 sensor fame ever fascinate you in its single-data-line simplicity? If so, then you’ll like PJON ...