LEGO’s Power Functions elements mostly consist of DC motors and the hardware to be driven by those motors like gears and wheels. They also include battery packs, usually a bunch of AA cells in a ...

When Alice Pyne starts talking about giving "crystallised virus structures" to school children, my heart skips a beat. Surely we've screwed up the next generation enough already without giving them ...

Scanning atomic force microscopes, first introduced into commerce in 1989, are a powerful tool for nanoscale science and engineering. Capable of seeing individual atoms, commercial AFM prices range ...

Snekboard is an open hardware development board that’s designed to let you hook up to LEGO Power Functions motors and switches so you can build robots out of LEGO and control them with CircuitPython ...

Watch the exciting and intricate build of the LEGO Creator 10247 Ferris Wheel with Power Functions! This iconic set captures the magic and charm of a real Ferris wheel, and with the addition of Power ...

A healthy portion of Internet of Things (IoT) development is taking place in the maker community. I have no data on that, just anecdotal evidence from traveling the USA talking to makers, hackers, ...