One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ...

We absolutely adore inspired labor-of-love tales such as this one. [Alastair] wanted to build a synth for his daughter’s ...

That MacOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent releases of OS X/MacOS then proceeded to happily ...

There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts ...

The original Xbox was different from the consoles that had gone before, in that its hardware shared much with a PC of the day ...

For those of you who haven’t spent time in North America around this time of year, you may be unaware of two things: one, the ...

Andrew Greenberg] has some specific ideas for how open-source hardware hackers could do a better job with their KiCad ...

When people talk about the lack of a DOOM being the doom Commodore home computers, they aren’t talking about the C64, which was deep into obsolescence when demon-slaying suddenly became the ...

You may have noticed that large pieces of the Internet were down on Tuesday. It was a problem at Cloudflare, and for once, it ...

If you take a look around you, chances are pretty good that within a few seconds, your eyes will fall on some kind of ...

There are few things that can keep a certain kind of mechanically-inclined mind entranced as well as a marble run, and few structures that look as interestingly organic as procedurally-generated ...

The header image above shows a completely unsupported 3D-printed bridge, believe it or not. You’re looking at the bottom of the print. [Make Wonderful Things] wondered whether unsightly unsupported ...