Do you have old landline phones laying around the house, with touchtone buttons or rotary dials? Perhaps you’d like to do something with them! [Scott Dylewski] has built hardware to let you ...

Cellular modems come and go, and they can be tricky beasts to tame – yet, in every portable computer project I’ve worked with ...

If you wanted to make a game that ran on a commodity microcontroller, you could be forgiven for not knowing where to start.

The Tang Nano 9K is a cheap FPGA development board that can usually be acquired for around $15 or so. [ThePartsBin] has been experimenting with this hardware and figured out how to set it up as a ...

Palm OS, an operating system for a range mobile devices that predated mobile phones, is largely forgotten today. Or at least, ...

Amidst one of the worst heatwaves in European history, Britain’s national grid saw itself faced with a quiet crisis this ...

If you’ve ever wondered about the planes flying above your head, you could always listen in to ADS-B transmissions to learn ...

The Amazon Echo Dot is one of Amazon’s so-called ‘smart speaker’ offerings that tie into their larger Alexa-fueled ecosystem, ...

We announced our first round of speakers, and then the workshops, and we were going to dribble out updates on the rest of the ...

In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasn’t the first OO language, ...

Sometimes an STL file needs a bit of editing, but if one doesn’t already know how to use a mesh editor it’s unlikely that one ...

Although the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (F-T synthesis) process is well-known and on face value quite straightforward, using ...