With regard to vintage test gear, one’s thoughts tend to those Nixie-adorned instruments of yore, or the boat-anchor oscilloscopes that came with their own carts just since there was no other method to move the things. however there were other looks for test gear back in the day, as this frequency counter with a readout […]

There’s a lot to admire about LED matrix projects, which more typically than not end up looking really cool. but most of them rely on RGB matrix panels sourced from the surplus market, and while there’s nothing wrong with that, building your own tiny, tileable LED matrix panels makes these builds just a little bit […]

[Handy Geng] lives in Baoding, China, where average winter season temperatures can get as low as −7.7 °C (18.1 °F). rather than simply freezing in the cold when using the bathroom, he chose he could do better. thus came about his rather distinct toilet paper heating system. The build uses a gas burner heating up […]

Lightning is a force to be reckoned with: ever considering that ancient times, humans have been in awe of the lethal power of lightning strikes and the deafening roar of thunder. quite reasonably, they ascribed these events to acts of angry gods; today, modern science supplies a a lot more down-to-earth explanation of the physics […]

The next computer was introduced in 1988, with the high-end device finding favor with universities and financial institutions during its short time in the marketplace. [Spencer Nelson] came across a keyboard from one of these machines, and with little experience, set about figuring out how it worked. The keyboard features a type of DIN connector […]