We’re all used to wireless networking, but if there’s one thing the ubiquitous WiFi on 2.4 or 5 GHz lacks, it’s range. Inside ...

Although much of the software that runs on the ESP32 microcontroller is open source, the Wi-Fi driver is not. Instead, it uses a proprietary binary blob. This was no problem for [Jasper Devreker]’s ...

Some of us may have recently stumbled over these mysterious ‘Mini 560’ synchronous buck converter modules at various ...

In many ways, ICQ has always been a bit of a curiosity. It was one of the first major instant messenger clients of the 1990s.

Some people trick out their cars. Some, their computers. There are even people who max out their audio systems, although back ...

The germanium point contact diode, and almost every semiconductor device using germanium, is now obsolete. There was a time ...

When you need to make very tiny measurements, even noise in closed relays can throw you off. [Marco] was able to observe this effect and wanted to build a switch that didn’t have this ...

Amidst the push for more low-carbon energy, we see the demolishing of one of the pillars of electric grids: that of a careful ...

In the eternal quest to find more things to do with 3D printers, shoes have been in the spotlight for a while now. But how ...

As those of us who worked in the consumer software world back when physical media was king can attest, when a master disc has ...

There was something of a mystery this week, with the c.root-servers.net root DNS server falling out of sync with it’s 12 ...

According to Smithsonian Magazine, a salvage company in London was cleaning out a property and found an odd-looking computer device. No one knew what it was, and they couldn’t find anything ...