Oh, the farming lifestyle…living off the land, fending for yourself. But who’s got time for all that? For the modern hacker, ...

On the one hand, the original Apple II has been copied over and over again since at least the early 80s, so maybe this hack ...

Spud guns are a staple of summertime fun for the maker set, especially on the Eagleland side of the pond, combining as they ...

While the original name of what much of the world knows as the NES was the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, it ...

Flight sims are wonderful to play around with to get immersed in the position of a pilot. Racing sims can give you a thrill ...

The NTSC television standard is a masterpiece of mid-century engineering, to pack a color image into the transmission ...

Pity the poor Australians. Isolated on a jagged hunk of land far from everywhere else, these industrious people have to take two-legged flights (or more) to reach a great many destinations in the ...

In theory, MIDI is an electrical and protocol standard that allows any such equipped instrument or computer to talk to any ...

The Intel 80386 is a rather fascinating slice of computer history. It marked the first 32 bit X86 processor, and was a staple of early desktop computing. Like all chips, it has a number of quirks, ...

At one point in time web rings were one of the best ways to find content on the World Wide Web — involving not just a ...

What do you get when you take 8,192 CH570 MCUs, put them on custom PCBs, and write firmware for this interconnected gaggle of cores? In the case of [bitluni]’s project, you get something that’s ...

When light reflects off a surface, not all of it reflects off at the same wavelength; some photons impart a portion of their ...