Many of us used “big iron” back in the day. Computers like the IBM S/360 or 3090 are hard to find, transport, and operate, so ...
Stephen Woodward] is familiar with digital potentiometers but is also familiar with their limitations. That spurred him to ...
Modern remote control (RC) radios are capable of incredible range, but they’re still only made for line-of-sight use. What if ...
Different cultures have their own conventions for naming locations, for example in the United Kingdom there are plenty of places named for monarchs, while in many other countries there are not. An ...
If you’ve owned a CD player or other piece of consumer digital audio gear manufactured since the 1980s, the chances are it has a TOSLINK port on the back. This is a fairly simple interface ...
You probably get a few of these things each week in the mail. And some of them actually do a good job of obscuring the contents inside, even if you hold the envelope up to the light. But have you ...
There are many AI models out there that you can play with from companies like OpenAI, Google, and a host of others. But when you use them, you get the experience they want, and you run it on their ...
Face it, we’ve all been there, in a crowded workshop building something, and horror of horrors, things are going to get a ...
Forty years ago, on the night of Sunday 2 December of 1984, people in the city of Bhopal and surrounding communities were ...
The primary feature of stepper motors is listed right within their name: their ability to ‘step’ forwards and backwards, ...
With 2024 now officially in the history books, it’s time to take our traditional look back and reflect on some of the top ...
It’s been a good 2025 so far! I just got back from Chaos Communication Congress, which is easily my favorite gigantic hacker ...