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

Even if almost tragically impractical in a world where digital calculators are cheap as chips, mechanical calculators and ...

How easy is it to build a simple demonstration at home that proves fundamental law of physics, such as Coulomb’s inverse square law, or Maxwell’s equations? This is one of those ...

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

You might think that if you dug some tunnels down into the ground where you could be out of the sunshine, that you might find ...

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 isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in ...

Flip dot displays are cool, and more people realize that after [mixela]’s fluid simulation on flip dots installation was on ...

The Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) is a board carrying a slightly older ESP32 variant, a display with a resistive touchscreen, an SD card, and not much else. It’s often used for straightforward ...

Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric ...

Now, not everyone minds the characteristic layer lines you get with Filament Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D prints, but sometimes you need a smooth surface. If so we might go for filling primer, Bondo, ...