Maker and STEM News

A remote-control electronics and DIY hobbyist was surprised by a model airplane they built, powered by a pair of PC air duster engines.

Joshua Bird designed, built, and tested this drone in their home, even resorting to building their own high-speed camera to check their build while spinning at a high speed.

The X1 will combine gantry and galvo technology in one machine.

Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard — semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to blinkenlights

The open-source codec Meta released in 2022 converts a waveform into discrete tokens that a matching decoder turns back into audio.

Well-known engineer Matthias Balwierz (aka Bitluni) designed and created an 8,192-core RISC-V GPU at home.

Flexible UV printer that can produce vivid, detailed, and textured output on almost any surface starts at $1,699.

A security researcher has added another dimension to smart lightbulbs by stealthily adding what they call a 'cyberpunk digital dead drop' full of 'banned books.'

A computer vision and robotics expert has created and trained what he boasts is “the ultimate mosquito killer” using machine learning and a laser.

A maker bored with the staid designs of modern factory-produced PCBs has perfected their own hand-inking and home-etching process.