If you’re familiar with Java here in 2025, the programming language you know is a world away from what Sun...
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FR4 is FR4, right? For a lot of PCB designs, the answer is yes — the particular characteristics of the...
In an ideal world, devoid of pesky details like contact resistance and manufacturing imperfections, you would be able to double...
In a move that could have been seen coming from at least a decade away, Microsoft has confirmed that the...
The MP3 file format was always encumbered with patents, but as of 2017, the last patent finally expired. Although the...
Join us on Wednesday, January 15 at noon Pacific for the Raspberry Pi Hack Chat with Eben Upton! The Hack...
There’s a paradox in amateur radio: after all the time and effort spent getting a license and all the expense...
Simple Conversational Amateur Message Protocol (SCAMP) is a weak signal digital mode developed by Dr. Daniel Marks (KW4TI). Originally integrated...
For home computer users, the end of the 1980s was the era of 16-bit computers. The challenge facing manufacturers of...
The web browser started life as a relatively simple hypertext reading application, but over the 30+ years since the first...
Have you ever considered running your ham radio remotely? It has been feasible for years but not always easy. Recently,...
Raspberry Pi just dropped the new Raspberry Pi 500, which like its predecessor puts the similarly named SBC into a...
There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing,...
The world of the overclocker contains many arcane tweaks to squeeze the last drops of performance from a computer, many...
To capture an instant on film or sensor with a camera, you usually need a fast shutter. But alternately a...
It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the...
For some time now, Apple has developed a reputation for manufacturing computers and phones that are not particularly repairable or...
Your phone or laptop will give you access to the vast majority of news in the world, in languages you...
I recently got one of the new RP2040-based Bus Pirate 5 (BP5), a multi-purpose interface debugging and testing tool. Scanning...
We’re suckers for good-looking old-school calculators, so this interesting numerical equation-solving calculator by caught our attention. Based around the ESP32-WROOM-32 module...
We always thought the older console games looked way better back in the day on old CRTs than now on...
Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its...
Despite the rise of ARM processors in more and more computers from embedded systems to daily driver PCs, the x86...
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is...
While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a...
