Most of us learned to design circuits with schematics. But if you get to a certain level of complexity, schematics are a pain. Modern designers — especially for digital circuits — ...

Smart glasses are a complicated technology to work with. The smart part is usually straightforward enough—microprocessors and software are perfectly well understood and easy to integrate into even ...

One of the first things that an amateur radio operator is likely to do once receiving their license is grab a dual-band handheld and try to make contacts with a local repeater. After the initial ...

As the Common Business Oriented Language, COBOL has a long and storied history. To this day it’s quite literally the ...

Glen Akins] reported on Bluesky that the Zigbee-based sensor he had made for his garden’s rear gate was still going strong ...

There are a lot of distractions in daily life, especially with all the different forms of technology and their accompanying ...

Like so many of us, [Liam] has a big problem. Whether it’s the curse of Brown Thumbs or something else, those darn ...

Bringing modern connectivity to retro computers is an endearing field- with the simplicity of last-century hardware and software being a double-edged sword, often, you bring a powerful and tiny ...

Useless robots (or useless machines) are devices that, when switched on, exist only to turn themselves back off. They are fun and fairly simple builds that are easy to personify, and really invite ...

A quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, ...

On a Commodore 64, the computer is normally connected to a monitor with one composite video cable and to an audio device with ...

It’s not unusual for redundant satellites, rocket stages, or other spacecraft to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere. Usually ...