The first known use of humans using wind to perform mechanical work with machines dates back to ninth-century Persian windmills. But if we count sailing vessels among those machines, the history ...

If you’re big into retrocomputing, you probably spend a lot of time chasing parts and machines on online classifieds or ...

It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he ...

If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super ...

The recently released Valve Steam Machine is that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard power supply. This fact ...

RC planes are a lot of fun, and the bigger the better! [Ramy RC] has built the world’s biggest RC A380. At 29 ft (8.83 m) ...

Tony Goacher] has worked with a lot of cheap brushless DC motor controllers built in China. They can be very cost-effective, ...

In the world of scientific publishing there are many reasons why a paper can be retracted, but generally there is an obvious ...

Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era. The BBC stopped broadcasting Radio 4 on their 198 ...

Split-flap displays are a great, low-power way to display text to a wide audience. Compared to other display technologies like LCDs they only use energy when the characters change, but have fallen out ...