An old friend of mine at my hackerspace introduced me to the concept of Prototype Zero: The Version that Even Your Own Sweet ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable ...

We can’t throw stones. [Leaded Solder] picked up a SparcStation 1+ in 2018 and found it only produced illegal instruction ...

Magic Eye tubes were popular as tuning guides on old-school radio gear. However, the tubes, the 6U5 model in particular, have become rare and remarkably hard to come by of late. When the supply dri… ...

Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the ...

Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward ...

Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers ...

On an old fashioned bench a signal generator was once an indispensable instrument, but has now largely been supplanted by the ...

Imagine you have a projector pointing at a scene, which you’re photographing with a camera aimed from a different point.

Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system.

For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next ...