When making a personal website, one will naturally include a personal touch. What could be more personal than creating a font from your own handwriting? That’s what [Chris Smith] has done, ...

Designer furniture generally comes with excellent aesthetics and (sometimes) functionality. However, such furniture comes ...

With the days of dial-up and pitiful 2G data connections long behind most of us, it would seem tempting to stop caring about ...

For something non-explosive, this might be the most American project we’ve featured in a while. [Makerinator]’s domestic ...

Semiconductor fabrication is complicated requiring nasty chemicals for everything from dopants to etchants. Working with such ...

Even with teachers with names like Kirchhoff and Helmholtz, old Heinrich Hertz himself likely didn’t have the slightest idea ...

Ever tear open a potentiometer? If you haven’t, you can still probably guess what’s inside. A streak of resistive material with some kind of contact that moves across it as you rotate ...

A few years ago, I bought an 8 mm home movie camera in a second hand store. I did a teardown on it here and pulled out for ...

Over on his blog our hacker [Scott Baker] has a Magnetic Bubble Memory Mega-Post. If you haven’t heard of magnetic bubble memory before it’s basically obsolete nonvolatile memory.

Human existence boils down to one brutal fact: however much food you have, it’s enough to last for the rest of your life.

Knobs are ubiquitous in technology user interfaces, but touchscreens are increasingly replacing them for interface controls. The latest project from [upir] combines a rotating knob with a ...

An overriding memory for those who used 8-bit machines back in the day was of using BASIC to program them. Without a ...