Microcontroller dev boards are wonderfully useful items, in testament to which most of us maintain an ample collection of the ...

You have an old radio — in the case of [The Radio Mechanic], a Stromberg Carlson — and it needs new knobs. What do you do?

I don’t like HDMI. Despite it being a pretty popular interface, I find crucial parts of it to be alien to what hackers stand ...

We’ve seen many graphical and animated explainers for the Fourier series. We suppose it is because it is so much fun to ...

Normally on “Mining and Refining,” we concentrate on the actual material that’s mined and refined. We’ve covered everything ...

Anyone who has left their car windows open during a rainstorm will tell you the best way to dry the upholstery is to crank ...

Lord Kelvin’s name comes up anytime you start looking at the history of science and technology. In addition to working on ...

To be an Amiga fan during the dying days of the hardware platform back in the mid 1990s was to have a bleak existence indeed.

Everyone who deals with electronics knows that grounding is important. Your house has a copper rod in the ground. But ...

Making a software defined radio (SDR) receiver is a relatively straightforward process, given the right radio front end ...

Depending on the circumstances you find yourself in, a Geiger counter can be a tremendously useful tool. With just a click or ...

With all the tools and services available to us these days, it’s hard to narrow down a set of skills that the modern hacker ...