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 ...

One of the more exciting recent developments has been the discovery that many radio chips used in common and cheap wireless ...

After previously exploring the basics of UDP broadcasting, why IPv4 subnets are an exciting feature that you really want to ...

When you think about nuclear radiation, you often think about power plants, but it turns out there’s radioactive stuff all ...

Devices from the likes of Google and Amazon can be used as high-tech alarm clocks that can show the weather and family photos ...

Laser harps aren’t quite a right of passage, in that not everyone builds them, but it’s likely everyone at least contemplates building one at one time or another. We’re lucky that [Derrick] a.k.a. [DJ ...

The Tang Nano 9K is a cheap FPGA development board that can usually be acquired for around $15 or so. [ThePartsBin] has been experimenting with this hardware and figured out how to set it up as a ...

Mr Carlson’s Lab] saves a Fluke Model 407 high-voltage power supply from the scrap heap, and demonstrates carefully ...

Despite not being inherently any better at converting electricity into heat, induction-heated soldering irons often ...

The ESP32 series of microcontrollers feature a lot on these pages, offering as they do a significantly powerful processor and ...

These days, it is easy enough to get a flash cart for your Game Boy that makes it easy to run code — yours or otherwise — on ...

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 ...