Creating a Zen garden is a wonderful way to cultivate a peaceful and serene space in your backyard. Japanese gardens are renowned for their tranquility, elegance, and harmony with nature.

The purpose of a Zen garden, those stylized landscapes created by painstakingly placing rocks and raking gravel into perfect patterns, is the doing of the thing. Making sure every line is ...

[Nick] is working on a prototype of a coffee table sand plotter that draws patterns in sand a lot like a zen rock garden. [Nick]’s zen rock garden uses a magnet to draw a ball bearing across ...