Sean Boyce] has been busy building board games. Specifically, an electronic strategy boardgame that is miraculously also ...

If you build electronics, you will eventually need a coil. If you spend any time winding one, you are almost guaranteed to ...

It was probably Montesquieu who coined the proto-hacker motto “the best is the mortal enemy of the good”. He was talking ...

In the 90s, a video game craze took over the youth of the world — but unlike today’s games that rely on powerful PCs or ...

Sometimes you need random numbers — and properly random ones, at that. [Sean Boyce] whipped up a rig that serves up just that ...

At first glance the very idea of a zipper that unzips and zips up by itself seems somewhat ridiculous. After all, these contraptions are mostly used on pieces of clothing and gear where handling a ...

While most hams and hackers have at least heard of Heathkit, most people don’t know the strange origin story of the legendary company. [Ham Radio Gizmos] takes us all through the story. In ...

Classic demos from the demoscene are all about showing off one’s technical prowess, with a common side order of a slick ...

In the 2000s, the DVD industry was concerned about piracy, in particular the threat to their business model presented by ...

In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears ...

IMSAI Guy] grabbed an obsolete XOR gate and tried a classic circuit to turn it into a frequency doubler. Of course, being an ...

If you’ve been car shopping lately, or even if you’ve just been paying attention to the news, you’ll probably be at least somewhat familiar with the kerfuffle over AM radio. The idea is that ...