Al and I were talking about the IBM 9020 FAA Air Traffic Control computer system on the podcast. It’s a strange machine, made ...

When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting ...

Attributed to Picasso was the notion that when art critics get together they talk about content, style, trend, and meaning; but that when painters get together they talk about where to get the ...

If there is one thing we took from [azwankhairul345’s] environmental monitor project, it is this: sensors and computing power ...

Today’s PCs are locked up with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) devices so much so that modern Windows versions insist on having ...

When you think of a high performance liquid rocket, what do you think of? Beer kegs? No? Well, when [Ryan] from the YouTube ...

Researchers at Stanford University recently came up with an interesting way (Phys.org summary) to create patterns and colors ...

Lithium batteries have taken over as the primary battery chemistry from applications ranging from consumer electronics to ...

D printing is wonderful, but sometimes you just don’t want to look at a plastic peice. Beethoven’s bust wouldn’t look quite ...

Explained Simply. If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write software to process and generate text ...

Here’s a simple project for your Halloween celebration. The other day while looking through our box of Halloween decorations, we noticed that the incandescent lamp in one of the jack-o’-lanterns was ...

What happens when a traditional board game company decides to break into electronic gaming? Well, if it were a UK gaming ...