Dan Maloney and I were talking on the podcast about his memories of the old electronics magazines, and how they had some ...

Once upon a time, typing “www” at the start of a URL was as automatic as breathing. And yet, these days, most of us go ...

We often think of analog computing as a relic of the past, room-sized monstrosities filled with vacuum tubes doing their best ...

We’ve all seen those cheap bench power supply units (PSUs) for sale online, promising specifications that would cost at least ...

In these days of everything-streaming, it’s great to see an old school radio build. It’s even better when it’s not old-school ...

One of the most basic problems with robotic arms and similar systems is keeping the weight down, as more weight requires a ...

[Editor’s note: A few days later, it looks now like Prusa pulled the models of their own accord, because of their interpretation of the copyright law. Creative Tools and NTI claim that they were ...

In the long ago times, when phones still flipped and modems sang proudly the songs of their people, I sent away for a set of Slackware CDs and embarked on a most remarkable journey. Back then ...

Vintage hi-fi gear has a look and feel all its own. [ThunderOwl] happened to be playing in this space, turning a ...

An ongoing refrain with modern movies is “Why is all of this CG?”– sometimes, it seems like practical effects are simultaneously a dying art, while at the same time modern ...

If you’ve gone further into the Linux world than the standard desktop distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora, you have undoubtedly come across some more purpose-built distributions. Some examples ...

The venerable ATX standard was developed in 1995 by Intel, as an attempt to standardize what had until then been a PC ecosystem formed around the IBM AT PC’s legacy. The preceding AT form factor ...