Gifts for engineers

While electronics certainly is a complex and fascinating field, many newcomers are put off by the sheer amount of complex information out there. Wh...

At a time when everyone can take photos with their phone, but nobody knows how it actually works, we're going back to the good old SLR camera. So t...

With the potato clock, you will never have to rely on conventional batteries or electricity from the socket again - at least not to find out what t...

We all dream of building our own robot. Unfortunately, it soon turns out that anything beyond a robot fighting machine for Robot Wars is a bit more...

What if you could end every evening with a view of the universe - without leaving the house? The Astronaut Laser Star Projector makes exactly that ...

Some call it arrogance, engineers call it expertise. Where others see problems, they see solutions—in ways that normal people couldn't even begin t...

Circuit boards, capacitors, batteries, LEDs, and the like - anyone who lives for electronics with body and soul could bathe in these things. Unfort...

In a world full of tracking, data leaks, and transparent citizens, one simple truth applies:Encryption is not a crime—it is self-defense.Just becau...

We live in an age in which adults are constantly squatting in front of electronic devices, but want to forbid their own children to do so. After al...

Some things are best left to the professionals. This also applies to “just quickly pulling the plug.” So never—NEVER—enter the server room uninvite...