I arrived a little late today to CES (fog in Atlanta? Seriously?!) but I was able to hustle through the North Hall and part of the Central Hall for Day 1. Let me just say this — I’ve never seen so many accessory vendors for such a small number of ...

The collection of discarded and non-working gadgets has been growing so the boys and I gathered some of them together to do some creative deconstruction. We pulled up chairs to the work bench, gathered some screw drivers and other tools, and set … Continue reading →

Do you have one of those people in your family? You know the kind I mean: they shake and poke at presents, trying to guess what’s inside and spoil the surprise of Christmas morning. Well, if you do, then Instructables user DIYHacksAndHowTos has a fun tutorial up showing how you ...

Although the iPhone and iPod Touch have built in speakers, their sound is, to be kind, less than high-fidelity. The small speakers sound tinny at best — about enough to listen to voice audio, but hardly enough to crank it up to 11. And, of course, they can be fragile ...

New app-plus-accessory combo fulfills the tablet's promise as a control surface for almost any electronic tool you can think of.

My experience with robotics involved some brief hands-on in college and a large amount of hands-on with the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit. It was the Mindstorms NXT kit that reignited my interest in robotics five years ago and got me wanting to learn more. I’ve since built a handful of ...

Steve over at Big Mess o’ Wires has posted a terrific writeup of the Hallowe’en LED project he did with his daughter. His description of the project begins like this: I’ve been working with my daughter Alice on an LED lightboard project for Halloween, and today we finished the construction. Whew! We ...

Admit it — at one time or another, you’ve bought something that you knew wasn’t an authentic item, produced by the well-known, original manufacturer, but the price was so good that you figured it was worth the risk. With luck, the gamble pays off, the item is more or less ...

I’ve been happily using a Dell LCD monitor for a few years now, but it eventually began doing a bit of an electronic opossum impression, playing dead when I hit the power button. Often I could coax it back to life if I “tried turning it off and on ...

Although my one and only computer programming class involved ones and zeroes and IBM punchcards, I am fascinated by electronics. And since I’m currently working on a kids’ activity book about robotics, I’ve got the perfect excuse to finally begin to sit down and learn how some of the amazing ...