Mira] found himself slipping into a bit of a rabbit hole while investigating why only under Apple II MAME emulation there was ...

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

Everyone knows what its like to get a hankering for a specific food. In [Attoparsec]’s case, he wanted waffles. Not any waffles would do, though; he needed waffles in the form of a ...

We always enjoy [The History Guy], and we wish he’d do more history of science and technology. But when he does, he always delivers! His latest video, which you can see below, focuses on the ...

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

Martin Lorton] has a vintage Harmon 4200B selective voltmeter that needed repair. He picked it up on eBay, and he knew it wasn’t working, but it was in good condition, especially for the ...

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

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

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

Researchers from the USA and India have proposed that Floquet Majorana fermions may improve quantum computing by controlling ...

Most of us learned to design circuits with schematics. But if you get to a certain level of complexity, schematics are a pain ...

You’re designing an oscilloscope with modest storage — only 15,000 samples per channel. However, the sample rate is at 5 Gs/s ...