In the early days of the Internet, having a high-speed IP connection in your home or even a small business...
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Although it dates back to the early days of the Marconi Company in the 1920s, the Franklin oscillator has remained...
Stream decks are pretty useful in all kinds of contexts, but commercial models can feel a bit pricy for what...
You probably don’t spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anymore, since it’s thoroughly been superseded many...
We’re all used to it by now, but I’d just like to reflect on how insanely power-packed lithium ion batteries...
We’re used to electronic parts of the same type staying predictably the same, sometimes over many years. An early Z80...
The final second prototype flying. (Credit: Luke Maximo Bell, YouTube) The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars...
Sometimes you really need to know what the weather is doing, but you don’t want to look at your phone....
Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding...
Did you ever wonder how the mechanical voltage regulator — that big black box wired up to the generator on...
It’s Pi Day, and while we know that many of you celebrate privately, those that take a moment to put...
In the mid 1970s there were a spate of movies depicting the romance and lifestyle of truck drivers in the...
It’s a bit of an understatement that at release Windows Vista rather fell flat. Much of the problem was due...
On the podcast, and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of...
The physicist William Shockley is perhaps today best known for three things: his role in the invention of the transistor,...
Although the Apple II range of computers were based around the 6502 processor, they could still run x86 software using...
The early history of colour TV had several false starts, of which perhaps one of the most interesting might-have-beens was...
We miss the old Heathkit. You could build equipment that rivaled or even surpassed commercial devices. The cost was usually...
Phased-array radars are great for all sorts of things, whether you’re doing advanced radio research or piloting a fifth-generation combat...
There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking....
NASA is going back to the Moon! We’ll follow the crew of Artemis II every step of the way. Liftoff!...
After the previous attempt of running a PC off AA cells got a lot of comments, decided to do the...
Who among us does not have a plethora of mains-powered devices on their workbench, and a consequent mess of power...
There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general...
With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects...
