It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he ...

Tony Goacher] has worked with a lot of cheap brushless DC motor controllers built in China. They can be very cost-effective, ...

When you’re driving your car, you’re probably regularly looking at the speedometer to make sure you comply with the local speed limits. The method by which it works is simple enough: ...

If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super ...

The recently released Valve Steam Machine is that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard power supply. This fact ...

In the world of scientific publishing there are many reasons why a paper can be retracted, but generally there is an obvious ...

Split-flap displays are a great, low-power way to display text to a wide audience. Compared to other display technologies ...

Some of us have felt somewhat nervous about the collapse of DRAM and NAND Flash memory supply in the consumer market, while others seem to have fully embraced it. Someone like [polymatt] for example, ...

In this session of Logic Noise, we’ll be playing around with the voltage-controlled oscillator from a 4046 phase-locked loop chip, and using it to make “musical” pitches. It’s a lot of bang for the ...

Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era. The BBC stopped broadcasting Radio 4 on their 198 ...

[Sam Wilkinson] recently installed a Dreo CLF513S ceiling fan in his place — it’s cheap, well-sized, and blows air around as you’d expect it to. The only problem is that it only works with an ugly ...

The Ham Radio All-in-one cable (AIOC) is a small PCB attachment for a popular series of radio transceivers which adds a USB-attached audio interface and virtual TTY port for programming and the ...