A few years ago Dyson released a desk lamp that could slide up and down, in and out, balancing itself at every position.

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When it comes to building real-world flying vehicles, testing can be arduous and expensive. You have to find somewhere to fly ...

If you’ve heard the high-pitched whine or buzz from an electronic device when a current-carrying inductor is vibrating, ...

In a move that’s no doubt going to trigger a lot of confusion and nostalgia, Mklinux is back, in a sense. As the announcement makes clear, this is multikernel Linux, not microkernel Linux, which is an ...

There’s plenty of substances that can theoretically be extruded from a nozzle, but only a regrettably small subset of them can actually be used for 3D printing. One limiting factor is the liquid range ...

A perennial in the esoteric operating system space is ReactOS, a project with its roots in the 1990s which is doing a pretty ...

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The hope is always that a good business card will leave a good impression. For those in the electronics field, they also ...

The average hot water is a relatively simple appliance to understand. It uses gas or electricity to dump energy into water in ...

The formula of a Raspberry Pi camera is such that it’s almost a self-assembly kit of parts. Over the years we’ve seen a lot ...

There’s a niche genre of text adventure that’s halfway between a traditional novel and a videogame. Think Zork if it had an extra few novels worth of words of well-crafted story to go with the action.