D-printable, musical fidget toys that play classic video game tunes. Of course there’s the classic Super Mario ditty, but ...

The first Philadelphia Maker Faire was extremely impressive, and seemed poised to be one of the premier maker events on the ...

If you flew or drove anything remote controlled until the last few years, chances are very good that you’d be using some ...

In the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly ...

If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely known is that ...

Macro pads are handy for opening up your favorite programs or executing commonly used keyboard shortcuts. But why stop there?

When the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) amateur radio satellite was launched in 1974, its expected lifespan was about five years. The plucky little satellite made it to 1981 when a battery failure caused it ...

In case you thought that cameras, LiDAR, infrared sensors, and the like weren’t enough for Big Brother to track you, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have found a way to track human ...

The Starlink receivers need positioning and precise timing information to function, and currently the best way to get that information is to use a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) such as ...

We’re used to there being an array of high-end microprocessor architectures, and it’s likely that many of us will have sat in ...

Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and ...

Owing to the wave nature of light there are many ways that such different waves can interact with each other, but also with materials. Everyone knows about reflecting light with a mirror, which is ...