On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US Army installation in North Carolina, soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps pored over satellite images on the computers in their command ...

Here’s a fun build from [RootSaid] that is suitable for people just getting started with microcontrollers and robotics — an Arduino-controlled two-wheeled robot. The video assumes you already have one ...

For some, Halloween is starting to rival Christmas for setting up elaborate holiday decorations. Homeowners now spend many hours─and sometimes dollars─creating ghoulish displays of lit pumpkins, ...

Over the last decade, the open-source movement has not only transformed the world of software, but also catalyzed a sweeping revolution in hardware tinkering. At the heart of this shift lies a ...

BLAINE, Minn. — Dirt is moving on a new $750 million sports and entertainment district in the heart of Blaine, next to the National Sports Center. The 60-acre redevelopment is taking shape along 105th ...

After almost a decade, the switches controlling our living room lamps are failing. The remote is also so warn the buttons are unreliable. New sockets are cheap, but the trouble with new sockets is ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk City Council is poised to greenlight millions of dollars in road and traffic improvements at its weekly meeting Tuesday night. There are 11 different projects on the agenda, ...

With Donald Trump's decisive victory in the 2024 election, many voters are now wondering what that means for the so-called Project 2025 plan and what's in it. Project 2025, a controversial blueprint ...

Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign, you might have heard about "Project 2025," a conservative federal policy guide the Trump administration will likely try to implement. The 920-page document ...

Trudy Ring is The Advocate's senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is ...