Smartphones boggle my mind a whole lot – they’re pocket computers, with heaps of power to spare, and yet they feel like the ...

If you used the internet at home a couple of decades or more ago, you’ll know the characteristic sound of a modem  connecting ...

Sure I could buy this… but can I make it myself?’ And that’s where [Ben] decided he could, and got to work. On a ...

As you may have guessed given our name, we do love hacks around here, and this one is a great example of making some common, everyday things work in uncommon ways. [Nathan] sent in his hack to ...

These days, if you want a reverb effect, you just dial up whatever software plugin most appeals to you and turn the dials to taste. However, [Something Physical] specialises in… physical ...

When you think of neon, you might think of neon signs or the tenth element, a noble gas. But there was a time when neon bulbs like the venerable NE-2 were the 555 of their day, with a seemingly ...

Running out of filament mid-print is a surefire way to ruin your parts and waste a lot of time. [LayerLab] was sick of having this problem, and so sought to find a proper solution. Unfortunately, ...

Having owned an Amiga microcomputer is apparently a little bit like having shaken hands with Shoggoth: no one can escape unchanged from the experience. Thirty-two years on, [Neil] at The Retro ...

On an old fashioned bench a signal generator was once an indispensable instrument, but has now largely been supplanted by the ...

When your GPU fan goes rogue with an unholy screech, you either shell out for a new one or you go full hacker mode. Well, ...

Sometimes, you build a thing because you need a thing. Sometimes, you do it just to see if you can. This project is in category two: [polymatt] didn’t need to create a floppy disk from ...

Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...