Electret capsules can be found in some of the highest quality microphones for studio use, as well as in some of the very ...

In this video our hacker [Inkbox] shows us how to create a computer game that runs directly on computer hardware, without an operating system! [Inkbox] briefly explains what BIOS is, then covers ...

Researchers call it “hallucination”; you might more accurately refer to it as confabulation, hornswaggle, hogwash, or just ...

Anyone who has ever snapped a chain or a crank knows how much torque a bicycle’s power train has to absorb on a daily basis; it’s really more than one might naively expect. For that ...

Back when the IBM PC was new, laying out an ISA board was a daunting task. You probably didn’t have a very fast ‘scope, if you had one at all. Board layout was almost certainly done on ...

It’s always a pleasure to find a hardware hacker who you haven’t seen before, and page back through their work. [Bettina ...

The nights are drawing in for Europeans, and Elliot Williams is joined this week by Jenny List for an evening podcast looking ...

Everyone knows that Weird Al lampooned computers in a famous parody song (It’s All About the Pentiums). But if you want more hardcore (including more hardcore language, so if you are ...

Discord had a data breach back on September 20th, via an outsourced support contractor. It seems it was a Zendesk instance ...

USB power has become ubiquitous — everything from phones to laptops all use it  — so why not your lab bench? This is what [EEEngineer4Ever] set out to do with the BenchVolt PD USB ...

The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and expensive, and their performance was not very high. The transistor ...

Our hacker [Piers Finlayson] is at it again, and this time he has added USB support to One ROM. With this new connectivity ...