Celery is a good choice for this. Add water to a large water glass. Cut 2 inches off the base of a store-bought celery bunch. Stick toothpicks around the base and immerse the bottom of the bunch in ...

While it is fun to get toys that look like your favorite science fiction props, it is less fun when the electronics in them don’t measure up to the physical design. [Steve Gibbs] took a ...

When 12-year-old Matteo Mucchetti mapped out an amusement-style attraction that he wanted to create in his family’s basement and then showed it to his older brother Nico, the high-school sophomore was ...

If you’re looking for some websites to bust your boredom you’ve come to the right place. Here we give you two websites that ...

Is the capacity to imagine unique to humans? Scientists thought so—until a bonobo named Kanzi was invited to a pretend tea party.

There is no emotional battery recharge quite like the one a few hours spent with friends will provide. While it’s fine to stay in touch through sporadic texts and the occasional hour-long FaceTime, ...

Active children can head to the roller rink at United Skates of America for a day full of fun. Located in Rumford, the rink ...

Raspberry Pi prices surge 70% as AI demand drives memory costs higher, with 16GB models now $205 versus original $120 pricing affecting makers and educators.

It's 7x the size of the regular board Arduino boards power everything from robots to RGB lights, but they're a little on the ...

Is the Arduino Uno Q the missing piece in your next project? With its hybrid design that fuses the precision of a microcontroller with the flexibility of a Linux-based single-board computer, this ...

Connecting the dots: When Qualcomm announced its acquisition of Arduino in October, the move was met with lukewarm enthusiasm. Since then, the UK chip designer has ...

Some members of the maker community are distraught about Arduino’s new terms of service (ToS), saying that the added rules put the company’s open source DNA at ...