There was a time when buying a computer also meant picking out a compatible terminal. There were many to choose from, some ...

Universal IR remotes able to learn codes from existing devices were once popular consumer items as well as DIY projects, but ...

There are myriad challenges associated with data preservation – bit rot, loss of metadata, and hardware failures, among ...

Sometimes we’re most taken by what’s on the screen; sometimes the screen itself is the most interesting part of the project.

As the successor to Turbo C++, Borland C++ was a staple of professional IDEs for C and C++ development, starting with the ...

Depending on which type of electric toothbrush you are using, the replaceable brushes may contain an NFC chip that the handle ...

For as long as there have been sports cars, there have been blokes in tin sheds making their own sports cars. It’s a pursuit that has birthed famous marques and more than one motor racing series. Over ...

[CraftAndu] shares his DIY car rooftop tent design that looks like a pretty accessible build. It allowed him to test drive the concept to his satisfaction while spending a fraction of what a ...

We all have our childhood heroes, which in the case of [Hrvoje Cavrak] was the 1985 AT&T UNIX PC. This 18 kg behemoth of a workstation computer boasted a 10 MHz Motorola 68010 CPU, up to 4 MB of RAM ...

If you’ve ever done anything with LoRa, the chances are you’ve used a LoRa chip or module as a peripheral for a microcontroller, and left it at that. But that’s not always the case. Rather than being ...

Choose your own adventure books were one of the first media to become gamified in the computer era, and [Jeremy Ngai] wanted ...

We live a Jetsons future of ubiquitous automation, in which the most trivial of human tasks has a machine to take the work out of it. Take doling out Halloween candy for example, why the effort of ...