One of the more exciting recent developments has been the discovery that many radio chips used in common and cheap wireless ...

After previously exploring the basics of UDP broadcasting, why IPv4 subnets are an exciting feature that you really want to ...

When you think about nuclear radiation, you often think about power plants, but it turns out there’s radioactive stuff all ...

Devices from the likes of Google and Amazon can be used as high-tech alarm clocks that can show the weather and family photos ...

Laser harps aren’t quite a right of passage, in that not everyone builds them, but it’s likely everyone at least contemplates building one at one time or another. We’re lucky that [Derrick] a.k.a. [DJ ...

The Tang Nano 9K is a cheap FPGA development board that can usually be acquired for around $15 or so. [ThePartsBin] has been experimenting with this hardware and figured out how to set it up as a ...

Do you have old landline phones laying around the house, with touchtone buttons or rotary dials? Perhaps you’d like to do something with them! [Scott Dylewski] has built hardware to let you do just ...

While we’d love to have you all join us in Pasadena for Supercon 2026, the next best thing is to connect up to the ...

Mr Carlson’s Lab] saves a Fluke Model 407 high-voltage power supply from the scrap heap, and demonstrates carefully ...

The ESP32 series of microcontrollers feature a lot on these pages, offering as they do a significantly powerful processor and ...

These days, it is easy enough to get a flash cart for your Game Boy that makes it easy to run code — yours or otherwise — on ...

Rockets certainly have a substantial impact if you ever see a launch in person. The noise, shock waves, and even heat can be ...