If you are a certain age, you probably remember the ads and publicity around Chisanbop — the supposed ancient art of Korean ...

Do you ever look at the news, and wonder about the process behind the news cycle? I did, and for the last couple of decades ...

Normally you can’t read out the One Time Programming (OTP) memory in Microchip’s PIC MCUs that have code protection enabled, ...

Many people who get analog electronics still struggle a bit to design oscillators. Even common simulators often need a trick ...

Bees are incredible insects that live and die for their hive, producing rich honey in complicated hive structures. The ...

The Rigol oscilloscopes have a long history of modifications and hacks, and this latest from [Matthias] is an impressive ...

Some people slander retrocomputing as an old man’s game, just because most of those involved are more ancient than the hardware they’re playing with. But there are veritable children ...

Sometimes a write-up of a piece of retrocomputing hardware goes way beyond the hardware itself and into the industry that ...

Like the rest of us, 8-bit hardware is not getting any newer, and failed ROMs are just a fact of life. Of course you can’t ...

If you need to cool something, the gold standard is using a gas compressor arrangement. Of course, there are definite downsides to that, like weight, power consumption, and vibrations. There are ...

Over the course of evolution microorganisms have evolved pathways to break down many materials. The challenge with the many ...

If you have any empathy at all for those of us in the journalistic profession, have some pity for the poor editor at the ...