But did you know that pi has an evil twin represented by the symbol ϖ? As [John Carlos Baez] explains, it and its related ...

If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned with ...

We all know and love the humble seven-segment display, right? And if you want to make characters as well as numbers, you can do an okay job with sixteen segments off the shelf. But if you want ...

An unfortunate reality of pre-1990s computer systems is that any manuals and documentation that came with them likely only ...

Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and ...

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their Trinitron line of televisions, Sony launched the KX-45ED1. At forty three inches the screen on this particular model made it the largest tube ...

Corelatus] said recently that “someone” asked them to identify the phone signals in the 1982 film The Wall, based on the Pink ...

If you’ve got a nice mechanical keyboard, typing on anything else can often become an unpleasant experience. Unfortunately, full-sized versions are bulky and not ideal when you’re travelling ...

What’s the most important keyboard macro you know? Honestly, it’s probably Ctrl-S. But do you use that one often enough?

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to ...

It’s one of the great tragedies of our technological era. Smartphones that feature an incredible amount of computational ...

If you want to reverse engineer the boards in a modern console, you’d better have a lab, a lot of fancy gear, and a good few ...