Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to [Half Burnt Toast], yes you can. But should you? Well, that’s another matter. In our experience, flux removal seems to be far ...

Den Delimarsky] had a Stream Deck and wanted to be free of the proprietary software, so he reverse-engineered it. Now, he has ...

It’s a fair bet that most of us have a ton of wireless doo-dads around the house, from garage door remotes to wireless thermometers. Each of these gadgets seems to have its own idea about ...

What do you do when a crowdfunded product you really liked gets cancelled? Naturally, you take the idea and build your own ...

There was a brief period through the 1960s into the 1970s when the last word in electronics was the calculator. New models ...

When ships moved from muscle- and wind power to burning coal and other fossil fuels for their propulsion, they also became ...

Having a good set of (working) headlights is a crucial feature of any motor vehicle, assuming you want to be able to see the road ahead of you when there’s a lack of sunshine. Headlights are ...

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

In this era of cheap turn-key machines, the idea of actually building your own desktop 3D printer might seem odd to some. But ...

Everyone likes something cheap, and when that cheap thing is a router that’s supported by OpenWRT, it sounds like a win.

Christmas: a good time to broach a topic of hope. We’re talking Esperanto. This language that spurred the hope it one day could hack the barriers between people, eliminating war and ...