When it comes to text, how small is too small? The experts say a six point font is the minimum for readability, but as [James ...

Jonathan chats with benny Vasquez about AlmaLinux! Why is AlmaLinux the choice for slightly older hardware? What is the deal ...

Modern RC cars can be pretty darn fast. That’s fun and all, but it also makes it easy to crash them into things. This problem ...

How many times do you have to forget your keys before you start hacking on the problem? For [Binh], the answer was 5 in the last month, and his hack was to make a gesture-based door unlocker.

When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...

Bogdan Micea] uses a laptop cooler, but was a bit annoyed that his cooler would run at the same power no matter how hard the laptop was working. Rather than keep adjusting the cooler’s power ...

It would have to be a lot of them! They’re talking a 60 GW difference in production / demand. If you’re charging at home, it’s probably 7 kW, so that’s like 8 million cars.

People have been talking about switching from Windows to Linux since the 1990s, but in the world of open-source operating ...

A button that stopped working has probably led to more than a few smashed remotes over the years. Fortunately [pescado99] has shared a beautifully simple cure for dead or dying remote buttons: grap… ...

Does it make sense to make your own breadboards rather than purchasing off the shelf ones? As [Chuck Hellebuyck] notes in a recent video on DIY, 3D-printed breadboards, there’s a certain char… ...

I used to have a 35mm Kyocera Yashica T5 with a waist-level viewfinder. It was basically just a thumbnail-sized curved mirror matching the camera’s (fixed) FoV, but it worked surprisingly well.

Have you ever scanned old negatives or print photographs? Then you’ve probably wondered about the resolution of your scanner, versus the resolution of what you’re actually scanning. Or … ...