At the recent 38C3 conference in Germany, someone gave a talk about sending TOSLINK digital audio over fiber optic networks ...

For a lot of us, soldering just seems to come naturally. But if we’re being honest, none of us was born with a soldering iron ...

If you read Japanese, you might have seen the book “Design and Implementation of Microkernels” by [Seiya Nuda]. An appendix ...

Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the ...

Many of us used “big iron” back in the day. Computers like the IBM S/360 or 3090 are hard to find, transport, and operate, so ...

How do you know that your patch cables are good? For simple jumper wires, a multimeter is about all you need to know for sure ...

Stephen Woodward] is familiar with digital potentiometers but is also familiar with their limitations. That spurred him to ...

Face it, we’ve all been there, in a crowded workshop building something, and horror of horrors, things are going to get a ...

Imagine a clock where the colors aren’t from LEDs but a physics phenomenon – polarization. That’s just what [Mosivers], a ...

Modern remote control (RC) radios are capable of incredible range, but they’re still only made for line-of-sight use. What if ...

Sheet metal is very easy to form, including the pressing in of intricate shapes with dies and a hydraulic press, but the dies themselves are slightly harder to come by. What if we could 3D print ...

Are your jellybeans getting stale? [lcamtuf] thinks so, and his guide to choosing op-amps makes a good case for rethinking ...