If you used the internet at home a couple of decades or more ago, you’ll know the characteristic sound of a modem  connecting ...

Smartphones boggle my mind a whole lot – they’re pocket computers, with heaps of power to spare, and yet they feel like the ...

When you think of neon, you might think of neon signs or the tenth element, a noble gas. But there was a time when neon bulbs like the venerable NE-2 were the 555 of their day, with a seemingly ...

We lost a true legend this week with the passing of NASA astronaut Jim Lovell at the ripe old age of 97. Lovell commanded the ...

On an old fashioned bench a signal generator was once an indispensable instrument, but has now largely been supplanted by the ...

You don’t have to be a Snow Crash or Tron fan to be familiar with the 3D craze that characterized the rise of the Internet ...

Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable ...

Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the ...

Over on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself ...

The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it ...

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers ...