Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage discharges being a major risk to buildings, ...

The Intel 8051 series of 8-bit microcontrollers is long-discontinued by its original manufacturer, but lives on as a core ...

A quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, ...

Not too long ago, I was searching for ideas for the next installment of the “Big Chemistry” series when I found an article ...

If you take two objects with fairly smooth surfaces, and put these together, you would not expect them to stick together. At ...

Cryptographic messaging has been in the news a lot recently. Like the formal audit of WhatsApp (the actual PDF). And the ...

No, see, it’s what’s inside that counts. Believe it or not, [nobutternoparm] retrofitted this innocent, adorable little ...

Smart glasses are a complicated technology to work with. The smart part is usually straightforward enough—microprocessors and ...

One might be tempted to think that re-creating a film robot from the 1950s would be easy given all the tools and technology ...

It’s the podcast so nice we recorded it twice! Despite some technical difficulties (note to self: press the record button ...

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 ...

You think of op amps as amplifiers because, no kidding, it is right in the name. But just like some people say, “you could do ...