What were you doing when you were 15 years old? Maybe getting your driver’s permit? Or finding the guts to ask out that crush of yours? Or thinking about a way to build a giant ping pong-ball machine ...

[Andrew] and his brother had some time (and a lot of ping pong balls) on their hands, so they decided to have some fun and built a remote-controlled ping pong ball turret. Arduino aside, the turret is ...

[Jacob] has put a slightly new twist on the levitating ball trick with his ping-pong ball levitation machine. We’ve all seen magnetic levitation systems before. Here on Hackaday, [Caleb] built a ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On Friday, Flagler County successfully completed its first prescribed fire utilizing a helicopter equipped with an aerial ignition machine. The technology was able to set fire to ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Jan 12, 2018 at 12:03 pm January 12, 2018 at 1:09 ...

NEW YORK – In front of a lottery ping-pong ball machine in a private banquet room turned NBA studio at a massive Manhattan hotel, NBA vice president of basketball operations Kiki VanDeWeghe said, ...

The NBA regular season ends on Wednesday, and the 14 teams that fail to make the playoffs will cast their lonely eyes toward this year’s draft. The current wisdom suggests earning a high draft pick ...

The worst record in the NBA guarantees a team the best chance to win the No. 1 pick in the draft lottery, and it guarantees that team no worse than the No. 4 pick. But it does not guarantee the No. 1 ...

The classic 1985 comedy Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure not only cemented the fact that The Alamo doesn’t have a basement into the minds of its audience, but it also taught people the joy and wonder of Rube ...

New research suggests brains require more cognitive effort to play table tennis with a robotic ball machine than against a human. Researchers studying people playing table tennis have found that their ...