This is one of those hacks that makes you stop in your tracks and say, “wait, you can do that!?” — before realizing, oh, yes, of course you can do that. With enough computational power, you can do a ...

The ESP32 keeps finding new jobs in my house.

Stop Paying for Google Drive. I Built My Own Home Storage Cloud Using a Raspberry Pi Hate paying for cloud storage, but not ready to invest in a network-attached storage device? Here's how I turned my ...

Software projects that improve your network.

"Where did my pet go?" If you have a pet, you've probably asked this question at least once. One moment they're playing ...

Compared to the Arduino Uno of old, modern microcontrollers are absolutely tiny — especially for the amount of processing power and I/O you get. But if you need something really small, like ...

Decades of research suggest that the quality of our social ties might be the single biggest predictor of our well-being. Social connections are sometimes called “social capital” for good reason: They ...

July 16, 2026 • For most of human history–before mirrors and cameras–we had no idea what we looked like. So how did the face become so central to our identity?

Appliances Connection focuses on providing name-brand products at affordable prices. The company offers free shipping and a price-match promise that lets customers feel confident when making a ...

While building a simpler model for particle interactions, physicists found a new representation involving pi—not a new value for pi, and not a replacement for the one you learned in school.

On the Mason Neck peninsula and Pohick Bay in May, surveyors counted 38 osprey pairs with 53 chicks. On the Mason Neck peninsula and Pohick Bay in May, surveyors counted 38 osprey pairs with 53 chicks ...