Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed ...

An old friend of mine at my hackerspace introduced me to the concept of Prototype Zero: The Version that Even Your Own Sweet ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable ...

We can’t throw stones. [Leaded Solder] picked up a SparcStation 1+ in 2018 and found it only produced illegal instruction ...

Split keyboards are becoming more popular, but because they’re still relatively niche, they can be rather expensive if you want to buy one. So why not make your own? Sure, you could assemble … ...

Ever since the invention of washing machines, the process of doing laundry has become rather straightforward. Simply toss the ...

Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...

Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system.

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers ...

For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next ...

One of the more interesting facets of GPS is that, at least from the receiver’s point-of-view, it’s a fairly passive system. All of the information beamed down from the satellites is ou… ...

Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward ...