On the face of it, making an event badge should be an easy process. After all, most of us can hand-assemble a microcontroller ...

Bob the Science Guy] remembers how to use a slide rule. Even after all these years, it is pretty easy to remember how to ...

We aren’t sure what [Lazy_Duck] is doing with video games, but it must require a lot of controllers. Dismayed at the cost and ...

In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop ...

Solder stencils are a fantastic way to accurately apply solder paste to a PCB. Professionally-made stencils are cut from ...

Critical Internet keys changed this week. Did you notice?  The keys behind DNSSEC, the system for cryptographically validating DNS responses, rolled over on October 11 2026. This is the second ...

The camera in a typical mobile phone is now at a standard at which it can be considered a serious device rather than a toy, ...

When [Thomas] showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy.

As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margaret Hamilton was responsible for ...

Although the feature has been deleted from newer models, there was a time when Amazon’s Echo devices included a 3.5 mm “aux” ...

Recently [Riley] got his paws on an old Prusa i3 FDM printer that had clearly seen better days, with a hot-end that had ...

Most of the time, assuming nothing’s gone wrong with them, we take our hands so much for granted that it’s easy to forget ...