DEF CON happened just a few weeks ago, and it’s time to cover some of the interesting talks. This year there were two talks in particular that are notable for being controversial.

Have you ever been out and about and needed to make a check against INT, WIS or CON but not had a die handy? Sure, you could use an app on your phone, but who knows what pseudorandom nonsense ...

It’s likely that many of you use some form of CAD package, but how many of you have decided you didn’t like the software on offer? [Marcus Wu] did, and instead of griping, he wrote his ...

Recently the [Our Own Devices] YouTube channel took a gander at the Tefifon audio format. This was an audio format that competed with shellac and vinyl records from the 1930s to the 1960s, when ...

Linear actuators are a great help when you’re moving something along a single axis, but with so many options, how do you decide? [Jeremy Fielding] walks us through some of the high level ...

If you haven’t been following [Will Cogley]’s animatronic adventures on YouTube, you’re missing out. He’s got a good thing going, and the latest step is an adorable robot ...

There’s a dizzying number of specialist 3D printing materials out there, some of which do try to offer an alternative to PLA, PA6, ABS, etc., while others are happy to stay in their own ...

When [upir] saw that you could buy tire valve stem caps that read pressure electronically, he decided to roll his own Tire ...

Having a charger installed at home for your electric car is very convenient, not only for the obvious home charging, but also ...

The Arduino ecosystem is an amazing learning tool, but even those of us who love it admit that even the simplified C Arduino ...

Some readers may recall the Lynx-R1 headset — it was conceived as an Android virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) ...

Even in the early days of the Cold War, it quickly became apparent that simply having hundreds or even thousands of nuclear ...