I built a whole-home ad blocker with a $7 ESP32-S3 board - and it took just minutes ...

A project has cloned the Apple II Plus, but instead of using emulation, it goes the harder route by rebuilding Apple's ...

Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

Simon Boak has not emulated the Apple II Plus, but has recreated it in real hardware with modern components – including a ...

Do you have an ancient laptop or desktop just lying around? Transform that aging PC into an NAS, experiment with a new OS, ...

There's yet another portable computer format out for your money. The RootBoard follows what several others have already done ...

A Red Hat build engineer has ended his second experimental effort at using a high-end Arm64 desktop computer as his daily driver. His conclusions are instructive. “Tired of Seriously Bad Computers ...

The RootBoard is a handheld computer kit with a 3.5 inch color display, a 70-key thumb keyboard complete with function keys, and a built-in speaker plus what looks like a decent s ...

The recently released Valve Steam Machine is somewhat awkward in that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard ...

If you’re big into retrocomputing, you probably spend a lot of time chasing parts and machines on online classifieds or ...

Daisy-chaining two of Dell's Nvidia GB10 DGX Spark systems didn't just pump up my home AI lab—it fundamentally changed how I ...