Hyperfixed] has a podcast episode that does a deep dive into exactly why bags of microwave popcorn advise against using your ...

The IKEA Kortlinje is a digital clock that costs around 20 dollars, featuring a hygrometer and thermometer. It’s another ...

The sad reality is that all consumer electronics are going to be e-waste eventually. [Cory Whitesell] was determined his old NEC ProSpeed 286 Laptop wouldn’t meet that fate until absolutely ...

Flying and driving simulators can go as far as money will take you, and at some point it might end up being cheaper to buy a plane or race car than to keep adding capabilities to some of the sim ...

Making one’s own power tools can be a rewarding way to upcycle parts, and [bluesyann] does exactly that with a belt file made from an old mixer. We like how the enclosure for the old mixer ...

Recently [Riley] got his paws on an old Prusa i3 FDM printer that had clearly seen better days, with a hot-end that had suffered an explosive blow-out. For the project he had in mind this was of ...

Repurposing old smartphones for more general purpose computing isn’t a new thing, but the project by [LastComputer] ups the ...

Most home security sensors require a chemical battery or external power source to operate, which can be a point of weakness. If the battery in a window or door sensor dies overnight and nobody is ...

Like more than a few of us , [Kevin Noki] is sick of being pulled out of flow state by that annoyingly addictive black ...

As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will ...

Although the feature has been deleted from newer models, there was a time when Amazon’s Echo devices included a 3.5 mm “aux” ...

The Internet, and large groups of people in general, tend to have a remarkably short collective memory. Whether it’s the ...