There’s a niche genre of text adventure that’s halfway between a traditional novel and a videogame. Think Zork if it had an ...

All but a few of our very youngest readers are surely familiar with music formats that rely on optical disks. When we say ...

The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot of things to find and catalogue ...

The TermDriver 2 is a USB-to-serial interface with a twist—it has a built-in screen for displaying relevant information. It ...

This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and ...

Printed circuit boards were developed first for function over form. They were a way to mount components and connect them in a ...

These days there are emulators for all the great consoles of yesteryear, as well as old retrocomputers and arcade machines ...

As children, many of us looked wistfully into the cockpits of heavy machinery, wondering just how the series of knobs and ...

The last year or two has seen relatively affordable multi-material printers hit the market, and the question that [Tom Nardi] and I were kicking around when he was writing up the 2025 year-in-review ...

Macropads can be as simple as a few buttons hooked up to a microcontroller to do the USB HID dance and talk to a PC. However, you can go a lot further, too. [CNCDan] demonstrates this well with his ...

In the six months that have passed after the last USB-C article has been released, I have thought up a bunch of ways that these articles could have been improved. It’s, of course, normal to have such ...

When taking macro photographs, you often need just a tiny bit of controlled motion — so little that it’s tough to pull off by hand. To address this, [Salveo] designed a small open-source macro ...