Why Coils Resist Change. The less often used of the passive components, the humble and mysterious inductor is the subject of ...

GizmoThrill] shows off a design for an absolutely gorgeous, high-fidelity replica of the main character’s helmet from the ...

It was January 25th of 1979, at an unassuming Michigan Ford Motor Company factory. Productivity over the past years had been ...

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

A quiet shift over the last couple of decades in many places has been the disappearance of the traditional copper phone line. First the corded landline phone was replaced by cordless, then the ...

Although we do often see projects that take antiques and replace some or all of their components with modern equipment, we ...

When you think of a toy tractor, what probably comes to mind is something with fairly simple lines, maybe the iconic yellow and green, big rear tires, small front ones. Well, that’s exactly ...

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 ...

Macropads can be as simple as a few buttons hooked up to a microcontroller to do the USB HID dance and talk to a PC. However, you can go a lot further, too. [CNCDan] demonstrates this well with ...

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 ...

Helium is inert, which makes it useful in a lot of different industries. But helium’s colorless and odorless non-reactivity ...

These days, Windows has a moderately robust method for managing the volume across several applications. The only problem is ...