Getting PCBs made is often the key step in taking a dodgy lab experiment and turning it into a functional piece of equipment.

Thermoforming is the process of softening a material enough so that it can be tweaked into a new shape, with the source of the thermal energy being not particularly relevant. Correspondingly, ...

The media is full of breathless reports that AI can now code and human programmers are going to be put out to pasture. We aren’t convinced. In fact, we think the “AI revolution” ...

Typically, when we want to take images, we use an image sensor paired with some sort of lens assembly to make a picture ...

Are you ready to feel old? Lemmings just turned thirty-five. The famous puzzle game first came out in February of 1991 for the Commodore Amiga, before eventually being ported to just about ...

Earlier this year Donut Lab caused quite the furore when they unveiled what they claimed was the world’s first ...

We’ve seen many graphical and animated explainers for the Fourier series. We suppose it is because it is so much fun to create the little moving pictures, and, as a bonus, it really helps explain this ...

Although generally iPads tend to keep their resale value, there are a few exceptions, such as when you find yourself burdened ...

If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp of a computing ...

One of the constants in consumer electronics is that designers will try to put as many features into a single device as ...

Due to historical engineering decisions made many decades ago, a great many irrigation systems rely on solenoid valves that ...

A lot of hacks get inspired by science fiction. When that inspiration is taken from the boob tube or the silver screen, the visual design is largely taken care of by the prop department. If, on ...