If you want to do casting at home, you’ll need a way to melt metal. [Jake]’s DIY foundry furnace gets hot enough to melt aluminium, and is built out a mix of scrap parts. The chamber of the furnace is ...

Most of us are content to get our semiconductors from the usual sources, happily abstracting away the complexity locked within those little epoxy blobs. But eventually, you might get the itch to roll ...

Not everything has to be left to the pros. Homeowners can take a few simple preventive maintenance steps themselves throughout the year to better safeguard their HVAC systems and fireplaces, improve ...

When all of civilization collapses and you're forced to survive by yourself in the wilderness—it's the only place without zombies—you'll need a lot of different and useful skills. You'll need to know ...