The phones most of us carry around in our pockets every day hold a surprising amount of computing power. It’s somewhat taken ...

Normally, videos over at The Signal Path channel on YouTube have a certain vibe, namely teardowns and deep dives into ...

If you want to get started in microfluidic robotics, [soiboi soft’s] salamander is probably too complex for a first project.

BorisDigital] was mesmerised by a modern elevator. He decided to see how hard it would be to design his own elevator based on ...

An electric typewriter is a rare and wonderful thrift store find, and even better if it still works. Unfortunately, there’s ...

Sitting in front of a computer all day isn’t exactly what the firmware between our ears was tuned to do. We’re supposed to be ...

The first Philadelphia Maker Faire was extremely impressive, and seemed poised to be one of the premier maker events on the ...

Vibe coding is the buzzword of the moment. What is it? The practice of writing software by describing the problem to an AI ...

Ever wanted your own X-ray machine? Of course you have! Many of us were indoctrinated with enticing ads for X-ray specs and ...

David] sent us a tip about a company in Belgium, Citronics, that is looking to turn old cellphones into single-board computers for embedded Linux applications. We think it’s a great idea, and ...

IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] ...

Usually when we talk about retrocomputing, we want to look at — and in — some old hardware. But [Z→Z] has a different approach: dissecting MacPaint, the Apple drawing program from the 1980s.