Today, creating a ground-breaking video game is akin to making a movie. You need a story, graphic artists, music, and more. But until the middle of the 20th century, there were no video games.

After more than forty years, everyone knows that it’s time to retire the X Window System – X11 for short – on account of it being old and decrepit. Or at least that’s what ...

When it comes to getting retro hardware running again, there are many approaches. On one hand, the easiest path could be to ...

As Earthlings, most of us don’t spend a lot of extra time thinking about the gravity on our home planet. Instead, we go about our days only occasionally dropping things or tripping over ...

Most of you know how an NFC tag works. The reader creates an RF field that has enough energy to power the electronics in the ...

This eye-catching entry to the One Hertz Challenge pairs vintage LED indicators with a modern RPi board to create a one-of-a-kind clock. The RPI TinynumberHat9 by [Andrew] brings back the ...

As single board computers have become ever smaller and more powerful, so have those experimenting with them tried to push the boundaries of the machines they can be used in. First we had ...

For those of a certain age the first digital camera many of us experienced was the Game Boy Camera, an add-on for the original Game Boy console. Although it only took pictures with the limited ...

Home routers and cable modems are now extremely powerful devices, but they all suffer from the attention of their ...

As hardware ages, it becomes harder and harder to keep it in service. Whether that’s because of physical aging or lack of ...

Laser-engraving a cylindrical object usually requires a rotary attachment, which is a motorized holder that rotates a cylindrical object in sync with the engraver. But [Samcraft] shows that ...

Just about every electronic device has some silicon semiconductors inside these days—from transistors to diodes to integrated ...