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

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

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 ...

Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BillPg] has been designing a fantasy 1980s-era home computer. As part of the exercise, he’s reevaluating all the assumptions that have grown organically over time in the small computer ...

People in hotter parts of the world may permit themselves a grin at this, but Europeans have recently been suffering under an ...