To make aerated concrete, add a foam-forming agent and stir in a significant amount of air. This serves to make the concrete ...

Every system administrator worth their salt knows that the right way to coax changes to network infrastructure onto a ...

Before the Raspberry Pi came out, one cheap and easy way to get GPIO on a computer with a real operating system was to ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science they recently made a disturbing discovery: their Foucault pendulum had stopped ...

These days, it can be hard to remain competitive in online shooters without spending your entire life dedicated to the sport.

There’s a seemingly unending list of modifications or upgrades you can make to a 3D printer. Most revolve around the mechanical side of things, many are simple prints or small add-ons. This ...

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It’s no surprise that NVIDIA is gradually dropping support for older videocards, with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most ...

Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is a type of thyristor and they were popular back in ...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) forms the bridge between the analog world of paper and the world of machines. The ...

Not every impulsive purchase on eBay leads to possession of a wooden Dalek, but when a friend did exactly that, [Tony Goacher ...

Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with ...