Come next year, those looking to explore the globe virtually via Google Earth will have to do so on their...
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There are a lot of ESP32-based development boards out there– and why not? It’s a versatile chip that can be...
Back in the days when an integrated circuit meant a simple but expensive device such as a 741 or a...
Along with the many displays of outrage, gnashing of teeth and other displays of profound grief at the recent news...
Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with an...
Watching ’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and the eternal questions...
How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up,...
A clock is by its very nature a device for measuring time, and thus it moves forward at a constant...
We know, we know. Despite being called ESP32-Plane-Radar, this project from isn’t actually using radar. But thanks to the round...
For some reason there’s heated debate around the topic of whether high current carrying wiring ought to use crimped or...
We’re all used to satellite navigation systems such as GPS or GLONASS, sheer magic in which the combination of a...
This may say more about us than the current state of the telephone network, but unless your Grandma is still...
Sometimes, it’s hard to stop picking up your phone every few minutes to check on notifications and scroll endlessly through...
RC planes are a lot of fun, and the bigger the better! has built the world’s biggest RC A380. At...
These days, a lot of embedded projects feature some sort of screen, and a screen often creates a desire for...
YouTube streaming typically involves a camera with an HDMI output, a USB3 HDMI digitiser, and a suitably beefy PC to...
A loudspeaker is a vital component of every device that plays sound, but while its operation is simple, it’s a...
The smart TV is a fixture in most houses, variously an entertainment portal, corporate data gathering tool, or sometimes an...
An old-style PC BIOS served the function of a bootloader in loading the operating system kernel, and of an API...
There are plenty of radios you can buy that pick up MW and SW bands if that’s what you’re into....
has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form...
The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded. In September 1859, auroras were visible as close to...
How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do...
Although the basic principle of radio direction finding is easy to understand (measure the phase difference between different antennas, then...
Billions of people use GPS on a daily basis, along with the various other satellite navigation systems available today. But...
