A few years ago Hackaday featured a laminar project which recently inspired [Kurt] to create his own. His goal is to create a computer controlled night time light show synchronized with music.

Here’s how it works. Because the game has been kicking around for literal decades now, the best DnD books number in the hundreds - enough to fill a small library. Which ones are worth getting ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...

Famous quotes and anecdotes associated with the Spartans: Herodotus reports that just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers could ...

The Greeks had archers and cavalry too, but it was the phalanx that won many famous battles. Spartan soldiers wore red cloaks, so bloodstains wouldn't show up. They also grew their hair long and ...