Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed ...

An old friend of mine at my hackerspace introduced me to the concept of Prototype Zero: The Version that Even Your Own Sweet ...

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

We can’t throw stones. [Leaded Solder] picked up a SparcStation 1+ in 2018 and found it only produced illegal instruction ...

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

Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system.

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

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

For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next ...

Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward ...

There was a time when making a cloud chamber with dry ice and alcohol was one of those ‘rite of passage’ type science projects every nerdy child did. That time may or may not be ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside.