sausage Delightful vintage toy shows how the sausage gets made Rusty Blazenhoff

Gadgets AutoCAD is the software that turns dreams into reality and now you can learn how to use it Boing Boing's Shop

1980s This '80s robot watch is nifty looking Xeni Jardin

Games The Sony PlayStation prototype sold for $360,000 to Pets.com founder Greg McLemore David Pescovitz

Scientists are trying to design a chili pepper that's easily-harvested by machines John Struan

makers The Slinky was invented by accident David Pescovitz

makers Complete instructions for making a replica of the Minivac 601 educational computer kit Mark Frauenfelder

makers Thinking back on the special magic of Make: and Maker Faire Gareth Branwyn

makers 3D printed replica of the Digi-Comp II marble computer Mark Frauenfelder

makers Make this scale model of the Dr. Nim digital game Mark Frauenfelder

Technology Apple's claims about recycling and sustainability are kinda entirely nonsense Seamus Bellamy

toys The top that (almost) never stops Michael Borys

happy mutants Ugears: beautiful, steampunkular geared wooden puzzle-toys Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Boing Boing Gift Guide 2017 Gift Guide

toys Watch an incredible demonstration of Slinky tricks David Pescovitz

Games Play Tetris on a soldering iron Rob Beschizza

Games Sega's OutRun hacked into a Tomy toy dashboard Rob Beschizza

toys Haruki Nakamura's kinetic paper toys Rob Beschizza

Gadgets Kickstarting maker-kits for kids based on conductive play-doh Cory Doctorow

mechanical keyboards Clickeybits: fidget toy made with clicky keyboard keys Rob Beschizza