Grug Huhler] has been working with the Tang Nano 9K FPGA board. They are inexpensive, and he noticed there is a 20K version, ...

DIY projects utilizing e-paper displays have become more common. While saying the technology is now cheap might be ...

The triboelectric effect is familiar to anyone who has rubbed wool on a PVC pipe, or a balloon on a childs’ hair and then ...

Microcontroller dev boards are wonderfully useful items, in testament to which most of us maintain an ample collection of the ...

You have an old radio — in the case of [The Radio Mechanic], a Stromberg Carlson — and it needs new knobs. What do you do?

Computer gaming history is littered with tales of fabled lost hardware and software. Some of them are very famous such as the E.T. cartridges buried in a desert landfill or the few prototype ...

I don’t like HDMI. Despite it being a pretty popular interface, I find crucial parts of it to be alien to what hackers stand ...

Normally on “Mining and Refining,” we concentrate on the actual material that’s mined and refined. We’ve covered everything ...

To be an Amiga fan during the dying days of the hardware platform back in the mid 1990s was to have a bleak existence indeed.

There’s an oft-quoted maxim that youngsters growing up on farms have a much stronger immune system than those growing up in ...

Making a software defined radio (SDR) receiver is a relatively straightforward process, given the right radio front end ...

With all the tools and services available to us these days, it’s hard to narrow down a set of skills that the modern hacker ...