Kitchen scales are plentiful and cheap, but their accuracy and measuring speed often leave a lot to be desired. In particular the filtering out of noise can make small changes a nightmare as e.g.

Lego train sets have been available for decades, now. The Danish manufacturer long ago realized the magic of combining its ...

Tic-Tac-Toe is a relatively simple game, and one of the few which has effectively been solved for perfect play. The nature of ...

Every ham radio shack needs a clock; ideally one with operator-friendly features like multiple time zones and more. [cburns42] found that most solutions relied too much on an internet connection ...

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] ...

They say you should never throw out old clothes because they will come back in style one day. Maybe they are right. We noted in a recent BBC post that, apparently, wired headphones are making a ...

Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the ...

If you’ve ever had your internet connection drop out while running Chrome, you’ve probably seen a little dinosaur pop up to tell you what’s going on. You might have then tapped a ...

Nick] came across an awesome Bluetooth speaker online, only, there was a problem. It didn’t really exist—it was just a render of a device that would be nice to have. Of course, there was an ...

Anyone who saw Back to the Future II was disappointed when 2015 rolled around with nary a hoverboard in sight. There have ...

Some days, it feels like we’re getting all the bad parts of cyberpunk and none of the cool stuff. Megacorps and cyber warfare? Check. Flying cars and holograms? Not quite yet. This week, ...

PM local time, a bright fireball streaked across the western German sky, exploded, and rained chunks of space rock down on ...