Update: The USPS has now resumed acceptance of inbound packages from China. According to the updated Service Alert, they are ...

There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space ...

Some troubling news hit overnight as the United States Post Office announced via a terse “Service Alert” that they would ...

In the process of making everything ‘smart’, it would seem that rings have become the next target, and they keep getting new features. The ring that [Aaron Christophel] got his mittens ...

This technique shared by [Andy Kong] is for 3D printed lenses, but would probably be worth a shot for any resin prints that ...

For better or worse, the fundamental design of guitars has remained familiar since they electrified around a century ago. A ...

A well-known secret in the world of open source software is that many projects rely on donated hosting for everything from ...

When it was first announced, many people were skeptical of the Nintendo DS. Rather than pushing raw power, the unique dual screen handheld was designed to explore new styles of play. Compared to ...

Surface mount devices have gotten really small, so small that a poorly timed sneeze can send your 0603 and 0402 parts off to live with the dust motes lurking at the edge of your bench. While ...

This neat video from the [Computer History Archives Project] documents the development of the Aiken Mark I through Mark IV computers. Partly shrouded in the secrecy of World War II and the ...

If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might assume this was just an arbitrary gimmick, but it ...

The invention of the computer is a tricky thing to pinpoint. There were some early attempts that were not well known and some early attempts that were deliberately secret. [Alan Turing]’s ...