It is perhaps humanity’s most defining trait that we are always striving to build things better, stronger, faster, or bigger ...

Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially ...

Admit it. You’d get through boring classes in school by daydreaming of cool things you’d like to build. If you were like us, some of them were practical, but some of them were flights ...

Lightning is a powerful force, one seemingly capable of great destruction in the right circumstances. It announces itself with a searing flash, followed by a deep rumble heard for miles around.

When building a model rocket, it can be fun to get into the maths of it all—calculating the expected performance of your ...

Students from the ECE4760 program at Cornell have been working on a spatial audio system built into a hat. The project from [Anishka Raina], [Arnav Shah], and [Yoon Kang], enables the wearer to ...

Our hacker [glgorman] sent in their submission for the One Hertz Challenge: an analog software clock for Microsoft Windows. I guess we’d have to say that this particular project is a ...

Brilliant Labs have been making near-eye display platforms for some time now, and they are one of the few manufacturers making a point of focusing on an open and hacker-friendly approach to their ...

For those who experienced any part of the 1960s, even if it’s just experiencing the music from that era here in the future, the sound of the Mellotron is immediately recognizable. The Moody ...

We all know that it’s easy to get caught out by fake electronic components these days, with everything from microcontrollers ...

During the 1980s a lot of consumer devices suddenly got a lot smaller as large-scale integration using semiconductor ...

Sometimes, we’re faced with what should be simple household tasks that we choose to make more difficult. Sure, you could buy ...