Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric ...

Considering how important it is for everything from navigation to keeping clocks in sync, satellite navigation systems are ...

Although the Nintendo 64 was the first to bring real 3D graphics to the table in 1996, the Super Nintendo had an ace up its ...

Every magnet has a north and a south pole, but which is which? Sometimes it matters. If a product one builds features a magnetic closure or other part, the polarity of those magnets should be ...

Flip dot displays are cool, and more people realize that after [mixela]’s fluid simulation on flip dots installation was on ...

The problem with trying to make a fish tank fit in your pocket is that you’ll either end up with water everywhere or a bunch ...

It isn’t quite hailing frequencies open, but researchers from Harvard claim they’ve picked up a radio signal directly from a nearby exoplanet. Before you get too excited, planets in ...

For a while now we’ve followed the slow progression of affordable integrated circuit fabrication, and through the likes of ...

Few pieces of vintage audio gear from the turn of the century (the previous one) inspire the kind of devotion that a Leslie speaker does. Sure, there are plenty of pieces that are rarer or more ...

You’ve probably heard of rubidium frequency standards, which are used where you need an extremely accurate time or frequency reference. [IMSAI] guy has a good explainer video about what’s actually ...

As useful as steel and iron are to the modern world, their tendency to rust is a major downside. There’s a spectrum of ways ...

For a full-fledged, bells-and-whistles driving simulator a number of unique human interface devices are needed, from pedals and shifters to the steering wheel. These steering wheels often have force ...