Intel processors, at least for PCs, are ubiquitous and have been for decades. Even beyond the chips specifically built by ...

Join us on Wednesday, May 29 at noon Pacific for the Camera and Lens Repair Hack Chat with Anthony Kouttron! Unlike the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

Building a retro computer of some sort is a rite of passage for many of us, with some building replicas or restorations of old Commodores, Ataris, and other machines from decades past. Others go ...

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 ...

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