Tired of building the same old Arduino projects like blinking LEDs, temperature monitors, and line-following robots? Now it’s ...

One of the coolest things about old hi-fi hardware is that it often came with flickety needles that danced with the audio level. You can still buy these if you want, or you can simulate the same ...

The famous cuckoo clock, with its moving, chirping mechanical bird indicating various divisions of time, has been around ...

Red Pitaya started as a Kickstarter in 2013 with a straightforward idea: one small, affordable board that could replace an ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

They're pretty easy to make, too.

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to ...