It’s not often you’ll see us singing the praises of Microsoft on these pages, but credit where credit is due, this ...

The plethora of smart home devices available today deliver all manner of opportunities, but it’s fair to say that interfacing ...

Tattoos. Body paint. Henna. All these are popular kinds of body art with varying histories and cultural connotations, many ...

Macro pads are handy for opening up your favorite programs or executing commonly used keyboard shortcuts. But why stop there?

If you want to dip your toes into the deep, deep water of synth DIY but don’t know where to start, [Atarity] has just the ...

You can salvage lithium 18650 cells from all sorts of modern gadgets, from disposable vapes to cordless power tools. The tricky part, other than physically liberating them from whatever they are ...

There seems to be nothing a 555 can’t do. We’ve seen it before, but [electronzapdotcom] reminds us you can use a 555 and a few parts to make a reasonable touch switch. The circuit ...

Jonathan Bennett chats with Bashonly about yt-dlp, the audio/video downloader that carries the torch from youtube-dl! Why is this a hard problem, and what does the future hold for this ...

When a Loch Ness Monster story appears at the start of April, it pays to check the date on the article just to avoid red ...

Somewhere in the universe, there’s a place that lists every x86 operating system from scratch. Not just some bootloaders, or just a kernel stub, but documentation to build a fully ...

The list of countries to achieve their own successful orbital space launch is a short one, almost as small as the exclusive club of states that possess nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union was first ...

Ever want to get into reverse engineering but don’t know where to start? You’re in luck — [Hash] just dropped a case study in ...