We all know that it’s easy to get caught out by fake electronic components these days, with everything from microcontrollers ...

During the 1980s a lot of consumer devices suddenly got a lot smaller as large-scale integration using semiconductor ...

Keeping retrocomputers going can be tricky enough, but when you’re talking retro laptops, the battery packs add an extra ...

Fermentation is a culinary art where tiny organisms transform simple ingredients into complex flavors — but they’re finicky ...

The Apple II was made in great numbers, as was the Commodore 64. But the Mimic Spartan? It was a weird Apple II clone that you needed a Commodore 64 to use. [ARC Javmaster] has found one of these ...

We have all seen those cheap digital microscopes, whether in USB format or with its own screen, all of them promising super-clear images of everything from butterfly wings to electronics at ...

Guitar Hero was all the rage for a few years, before the entire world apparently got sick of it overnight. Some diehards still remember the charms of rhythm games, though. Among them you might ...

BornHack is a week-long summer hacker camp in a forest on the Danish island of Fyn, that consistently delivers a very ...

Before the era of large-scale integration (LSI) semiconductor circuits, discrete logic circuits using the common ...

It should come as no surprise that the hacker community has embraced the Meshtastic project. It’s got a little bit of ...

Over on his YouTube channel the vivacious [Stephen Hawes] tells us that we never need to buy solder stencils again! A big ...

Learning Morse Code is no longer a requirement for HAMs in many jurisdictions, but it’s still a nice skill to have. [I_void(warranties)] wanted to learn, but couldn’t find a trainer ...