We don’t usually speculate on the true identity of the hackers behind these projects, but when [TN666]’s accoustic ...

A switch is simple: connect two pieces of metal together and bam! Except, it’s not that simple at high currents. How much ...

Stream decks are pretty useful in all kinds of contexts, but commercial models can feel a bit pricy for what is effectively a ...

Supercapacitors rely mostly on double-layer capacitance to bridge the divide between chemical batteries and traditional capacitors, but they come with a number of weaknesses. Paramount among these ...

The Z80 has been gone a couple of years now, but it’s very much not forgotten. Still, the day when new-old-stock and salvaged ...

If you’ve ever run a game server or used BitTorrent, you probably know that life is easier if your router supports UPnP ...

Graphics calculators are one of those strange technological cul-de-sacs. They rely on outdated technology and should not be nearly as expensive as they are, but market effects somehow keep prices ...

In the early days of aviation, pilots or their navigators used a plethora of tools to solve common navigation and piloting ...

One of the coolest things about old hi-fi hardware is that it often came with flickety needles that danced with the audio ...

A well-known property of wall warts like power bricks and USB chargers is that they always consume some amount of power even ...

In the blue corner, we have the VENUS FLYTRAP! In the red corner, we have the underdog of the century, AN ENTIRE PARTICLE ...

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980.  They’ve since discontinued that ...