Normally, modifying cheap ballpoint pens is reserved for the prison tattooing systems, but this is a handy mod to boost the signal of a laptop wireless card with some tools. This process is done with ...

There are a few reasons to post a DIY project. First, there’s the cool factor—mounting TVs inside stuffed, dead kittens, making a car that floats, etc. Then there’s the “why?” factor—turning a can of ...

[Photo: Georgia Tech] These days, it seems like there are more electromagnetic signals in the air than oxygen, what with television, radio, 4G, Wi-Fi, and satellites all streaming wirelessly around us ...

Over the years, we’ve seen dozens of projects that sell themselves as an ‘Open Source’ cellphone, a hackable cellphone, or some other confabulation of a microcontroller, screen, and a cellular module.