Sean Boyce] has been busy building board games. Specifically, an electronic strategy boardgame that is miraculously also ...

If you build electronics, you will eventually need a coil. If you spend any time winding one, you are almost guaranteed to ...

It was probably Montesquieu who coined the proto-hacker motto “the best is the mortal enemy of the good”. He was talking ...

In the 90s, a video game craze took over the youth of the world — but unlike today’s games that rely on powerful PCs or ...

Sometimes you need random numbers — and properly random ones, at that. [Sean Boyce] whipped up a rig that serves up just that ...

Classic demos from the demoscene are all about showing off one’s technical prowess, with a common side order of a slick ...

At first glance the very idea of a zipper that unzips and zips up by itself seems somewhat ridiculous. After all, these contraptions are mostly used on pieces of clothing and gear where handling a ...

While most hams and hackers have at least heard of Heathkit, most people don’t know the strange origin story of the legendary company. [Ham Radio Gizmos] takes us all through the story. In ...

When we think of programmable hardware, we think of FPGAs. But they’re not the only option. [Oliver Schmidt] has been exploring how the Raspberry Pi Pico can serve in such a role for the classic ...

Ah, the CAN bus. It’s become a communication standard in the automotive world, found in a huge swathe of cars built from the mid-1990s onwards. You’ll also find it in aircraft, ships, and the ...

Kitting out a full workshop can be expensive, but if you’re only working on small things, it can also be overkill. Indeed, if your machining tends towards the miniature, consider building ...

There was a time when plotters were the pinnacle of computer graphics output. While they aren’t as common as they used to be, there are some advantages to having a plotter. [Symon] wanted a ...