We were talking on the podcast about rope. But not just any rope – especially non-stretchy rope for using in a mechanical context. The hack in question was a bicycle wheel that swapped out normal ...

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 ...

Fidget toys are everywhere these days. A particularly popular type simply puts some keyboard switches on a plate to provide a ...

The Commodore Amiga was famous for its characteristic Say voice, with its robotic enunciation being somewhat emblematic of ...

Much like how BusyBox crams many standard Unix commands and a shell into a single executable, so too does BreezyBox provide a ...

Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile ...

The heat pump has become a common fixture in many parts of modern life. We now have reverse-cycle air conditioning, heat pump hot water systems, and even heat pump dryers. These home appliances ...

Over the past couple of years with the Jenny’s Daily Drivers series, we’ve looked at a number of unusual or noteworthy operating systems. Among them has been ReactOS, an open source ...

Although we do often see projects that take antiques and replace some or all of their components with modern equipment, we can also sympathize with the view that (when possible and practical) ...

The Commodore VIC-20 was a solid microcomputer that paved the way for the legendary Commodore 64 to come. If you’re a fan of ...

Hackers have been building their own basic oscilloscopes out of inexpensive MCUs and cheap LCD screens for some years now, ...

Everyone here can think of a cloud-connected product that was killed because the company that made it stopped supporting it.