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A grandson's inventive efforts to combat his grandmother's hand tremors uncover that sometimes, the simplest tech wins over complex gadgets.
A French model train enthusiast’s affordable, 3D-printed HO power bogie is challenging expensive commercial options. We investigate its design, durability, and what it means for the future of model railroading.
Most Apple Watch users never go beyond the defaults, but a handful of under-the-radar settings can turn your device from a distraction machine into a focused, frictionless assistant. Discover the tweaks that make your Watch truly work for you.
Investigate how hackers and engineers are combining origami techniques with 3D printing to build compliant, flexible mechanisms and push the limits of material design.
Unlike most computers, the Raspberry Pi’s boot process is controlled by its GPU, a legacy from its set-top box origins. We explain the technical and historical reasons for this unusual startup sequence.
Despite its reputation, chopped carbon fiber in PLA FDM prints is more contaminant than reinforcement. Discover how it weakens 3D-printed parts and why it may pose unexpected health hazards.
A simple pause in the 3D printing process is enabling makers to embed metal and carbon-fiber reinforcements, creating hybrid parts up to ten times stronger than plastic alone.
A new ESP32-based oscilloscope ditches the screen and brings signal analysis to your browser, making powerful diagnostics affordable and accessible for hackers and makers.
A homemade 96-channel pipette built for just $300 could change how parallel experiments are run—if it can overcome challenges of precision and certification.
Beneath the simple exterior of beginner robotics kits lies a world of microcontrollers, circuits, and code. Explore how two-wheeled Arduino robots are making robotics accessible, and why their construction is more sophisticated than it seems.