Building a battery pack from 18650 cells traditionally requires patience, a spot welder, and a supply of nickel strip. But ...

Devices that were limited to only run a web browser were relatively common around 2000, as many people wanted to surf the Information Super Highway, but didn’t quite want to get a regular PC ...

How often have you pulled out old MCU-based project that still works fine, but you have no idea where the original source ...

This week Jonathan chats with Valentyn Danylchuk about BreezyBox — an interactive shell and toolkit that provides various ...

Jakub] is a musician, and found himself in need of a simple way to trigger samples via MIDI when on stage. So many commercial solutions exist, but most were overkill for the job or too messy and ...

A friend of mine has been a software developer for most of the last five decades, and has worked with everything from 1960s ...

At the beginning of March this year LEGO released their new SMART brick, which looks like a 2×4 stud brick and is filled to the brim with sensors, LEDs, NFC and Bluetooth functionality, as ...

The BC250 is what AMD calls an APU, or Accelerated Processing Unit. It combines a GPU and CPU into a single unit, and was originally built to serve as the heart of certain Samsung rack mount ...

There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general mayhem or ...

If you’re working with surface mount components, you’re likely going to want a reflow plate at some point. [Vitaly] was in need of just such a tool, and thus whipped up a compact ...

Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody ...

What hardware hacker doesn’t have a soft spot for transparent cases? While they may have fallen out of mainstream favor, they ...