What do you get when you combine a pogo stick, a quadcopter, and engineering students from the University of Toronto? This ...

Despite all the glamorous promises made about quantum computing, it’s hard to make the argument that today’s quantum ...

Contemplate the events that might end a space mission, and you might picture something dramatic: detonation on the pad, a ...

In the era before PCB shops would make almost any PCB imaginable, as well making many other manufacturing processes for prototypes available to hobbyists, there were several ways of making PCBs at ...

The speed that computers have gotten smaller is a bit mind-bending. Most of us now walk around with computers in our pockets that would have rivaled the supercomputers from a few decades ago. And, ...

The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually ...

It’s been more than a year since [Henrik Forstén] built the first iteration of his synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imaging drone, and he’s certainly been productive in the meantime. Not only did he ...

Although graphene gives diamond a solid run for its money when it comes to being the most useful assembly of carbon atoms, ...

Although we often think that we got certain aspects of aerodynamics pretty much licked at this point, details like the ...

Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric functions, specifically FPTAN. The most exciting part with such ...

Mipmapping is a good way to add a lot more detail to a 3D scene without overburdening the rendering hardware with detail that ...

Many of us of a certain age will have had their first true, good 3D video game experience with Super Mario 64. Unlike ...