The iPod once reigned supreme in the realm of portable music. Hackers are now working on preserving one of its less lauded functions — gaming. [via Ars Technica] The run of 54 titles from 2006-2009 ...

Need a hinge in your 3D printed design and would prefer not to re-invent the wheel? You may find [Alex Krush]’s glue-in filament hinge useful. This design (shown in this simple box as an example) ...

The weather is warming up, and for many of us that means more time spent working out in the yard. You probably won’t find any new life or new civilizations out there, but if you’ve spent the last few ...

Although crude oil contains a vast diversity of hydrocarbons, a comparatively small number of these make up the bulk of demand for oil. Cracking solves this mismatch: most of the demand is for light, ...

A buckminsterfullerene, also known as a buckyball, is typically a fullerene consisting of sixty carbon atoms (C 60) arranged in a way that resembles a football-like sphere. Extending this arrangement ...

The custom APU at the core of Sony’s PlayStation 5 hasn’t just been quietly powering these game consoles, but also made their way onto cryptomining cards around 2023 which are called the BC-250. The ...

Even if you’re not normally interested in what’s happening in low Earth orbit, you probably heard that last week NASA ordered ...

One of the most exciting challenges available to any software developer is that of writing brilliantly working code that’s so obtuse, so indecipherable, and opaque, that even its own author ...

Quick question: how did you learn to code? It probably wasn’t bribing someone a year or two ahead of you in CS to finish all ...

There are plenty of ways to get sound into your house: good old fashioned headphones, the Dolby surround setup we all lusted ...

Especially in this era of the Internet, the role of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has become increasingly essential as more and more web content vanishes into the ether or is ...

Although parents and teachers like to point out the deep link between cooking and chemistry, most people don’t deliberately ...