Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in ...

At the recent 38C3 conference in Germany, someone gave a talk about sending TOSLINK digital audio over fiber optic networks ...

For a lot of us, soldering just seems to come naturally. But if we’re being honest, none of us was born with a soldering iron ...

If you read Japanese, you might have seen the book “Design and Implementation of Microkernels” by [Seiya Nuda]. An appendix ...

Many of us used “big iron” back in the day. Computers like the IBM S/360 or 3090 are hard to find, transport, and operate, so ...

Stephen Woodward] is familiar with digital potentiometers but is also familiar with their limitations. That spurred him to ...

How do you know that your patch cables are good? For simple jumper wires, a multimeter is about all you need to know for sure ...

Face it, we’ve all been there, in a crowded workshop building something, and horror of horrors, things are going to get a ...

It is old news that you can print PCB artwork on glossy paper and use a clothes iron to transfer the toner to a copper board, ...

Modern remote control (RC) radios are capable of incredible range, but they’re still only made for line-of-sight use. What if ...

Sheet metal is very easy to form, including the pressing in of intricate shapes with dies and a hydraulic press, but the dies themselves are slightly harder to come by. What if we could 3D print ...