We all know that it’s easy to get caught out by fake electronic components these days, with everything from microcontrollers ...

During the 1980s a lot of consumer devices suddenly got a lot smaller as large-scale integration using semiconductor ...

Keeping retrocomputers going can be tricky enough, but when you’re talking retro laptops, the battery packs add an extra ...

We have all seen those cheap digital microscopes, whether in USB format or with its own screen, all of them promising super-clear images of everything from butterfly wings to electronics at ...

Fermentation is a culinary art where tiny organisms transform simple ingredients into complex flavors — but they’re finicky ...

The Apple II was made in great numbers, as was the Commodore 64. But the Mimic Spartan? It was a weird Apple II clone that you needed a Commodore 64 to use. [ARC Javmaster] has found one of these ...

Guitar Hero was all the rage for a few years, before the entire world apparently got sick of it overnight. Some diehards still remember the charms of rhythm games, though. Among them you might ...

Before the era of large-scale integration (LSI) semiconductor circuits, discrete logic circuits using the common ...

BornHack is a week-long summer hacker camp in a forest on the Danish island of Fyn, that consistently delivers a very ...

Over on his YouTube channel the vivacious [Stephen Hawes] tells us that we never need to buy solder stencils again! A big ...

Learning Morse Code is no longer a requirement for HAMs in many jurisdictions, but it’s still a nice skill to have. [I_void(warranties)] wanted to learn, but couldn’t find a trainer ...

Do you use a spell checker? We’ll guess you do. Would you use a button that just said “correct all spelling errors in ...