Al and I were talking about the IBM 9020 FAA Air Traffic Control computer system on the podcast. It’s a strange machine, made ...

We live in a golden age for MIDI controllers. [rheslip]’s contribution to the milieu is a twisty take on the format, in that it’s covered in an array of knobs. Thus the name—Twisty 2.

When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting ...

Today’s PCs are locked up with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices so much so that modern Windows versions insist on having ...

If there is one thing we took from [azwankhairul345’s] environmental monitor project, it is this: sensors and computing power ...

When you think of a high performance liquid rocket, what do you think of? Beer kegs? No? Well, when [Ryan] from the YouTube ...

Researchers at Stanford University recently came up with an interesting way (Phys.org summary) to create patterns and colors ...

Lithium batteries have taken over as the primary battery chemistry from applications ranging from consumer electronics to ...

Attributed to Picasso was the notion that when art critics get together they talk about content, style, trend, and meaning; but that when painters get together they talk about where to get the ...

As locked-down as the Amazon Echo Show line of devices are, they’re still just ARM-based Android devices, which makes repurposing it somewhat straightforward as long as what you want is another ...

D printing is wonderful, but sometimes you just don’t want to look at a plastic piece. Beethoven’s bust wouldn’t look quite ...

Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text ...