It’s a fair bet to say that the future of personal transportation will probably be electric. In support of that, every major car manufacturer either has an electric drivetrain option available now, or ...

As we noted back in 2018, monowheels are "kind of ridiculous, largely pointless and far from a practical way to get around." So would our minds be changed if crazy builders Make It Extreme swapped out ...

Sometimes, you build a thing because you need a thing. Sometimes, you do it just to see if you can. This project is in category two: [polymatt] didn’t need to create a floppy disk from scratch-– ...

Using the labor of dozens of undergraduate students, scientists have built a customized yeast chromosome from scratch. It's a milestone in the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology, where ...

You'll recall Andrew Murray. He's the man up in New England who scratch-built the road-legal, Indy-style roadster we featured in the July '08 issue. Thoroughly knocked out, the staff voted it the 2008 ...

In the tech world, where customer needs and expectations are constantly evolving, your product has to evolve, too. But sometimes, limitations in the way a core product was designed mean that the only ...

There's a point in a project build when people think they're close to completion, but reality sets in with a swift kick to let them know that finishing the rig ain't happening any time soon. The ...

There is a point in a project build when the reality of finishing the rig is so close that driving it down the road could be just a week or two away! Our Scratch-Built Scrambler is starting to look, ...

If you're a street rod enthusiast who prides himself in having a car that is different from all others, have you ever felt restricted by being forced to use the traditional Ford (or non-Henry) bodies?

This shiny wooden desk PC is a world away from your usual tower PC case. PC builder Wilhelm Bäckman had high ambitions for his very first scratch-built rig, with this custom piece of furniture taking ...

Red Dead Redemption 2 is being developed specifically to harness the power of a "new generation of consoles," hinting the game will run in 4K with HDR support and expansive features on consoles, while ...

I made a keyboard – let me tell you about it! I’m even typing this post using the keyboard I built. How meta. This has been a fairly involved process so there is a lot to discuss. The main goal of ...