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We’ve all been there. You’ve found a beautiful piece of older hardware at the thrift store, and bought it for a song. You ...

Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers.

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Although it might seem like there was a sudden step change from analog to digital sometime in the late 1900s, it was actually a slow, gradual change from things like record players to iPods or ...

A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath.

Aditya Sripada] and [Abhishek Warrier]’s TARS3D robot came from asking what it would take to make a robot with the ...

To those of us who live in the civilized lands where ~230 VAC mains is the norm and we can shove a cool 3.5 kW into an electric kettle without so much as a second thought, the mere idea of trying ...