There are many applications where you have limits on how much you can cram into a particular space. There are also many applications where you need as much battery as you can get. At the ...

Musician Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies are like a Tarot card deck full of whimsical ideas meant to break up a creative-block situation, particularly in the recording studio. They’re loads of fun ...

Although [Jamie’s Brick Jams] has made many far more complicated motor design in the past, it’s nice to go back to the basics ...

Many things about diamonds seem eternal, including the many engineering problems related to making them work as a silicon ...

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

Over on YouTube [Andrew Neal] has a Function Generator Build for Beginners. As beginner videos go this one is fairly ...

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

Sometimes you have this project idea in your mind that seems so simple and straightforward, and which feels just so right ...

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

Before the Internet, there was a certain value to knowing how to find out about things. Reference librarians could help you ...

Before PCBs, wiring electronic circuits was a major challenge in electronics production. A skilled person could make ...

Jer Schmidt] needed a way to put a lot of M8 bolts into a piece of square steel tubing, but just drilling and tapping threads ...