Although the RTL-SDR is cheap, accessible, and capable enough for many projects, it does have some important limitations. In ...

We have to admit, we didn’t know that we wanted a desktop electric jellyfish until seeing [likeablob]’s Denki-Kurage, but it’s one of those projects that just fills a need so perfectly. The need ...

We’re all used to it by now, but I’d just like to reflect on how insanely power-packed lithium ion batteries are, and ...

How often have you pulled out old MCU-based project that still works fine, but you have no idea where the original source ...

For better or worse, there are a few instruments that have been pigeonholed into specific genres of popular music. For ...

Jakub] is a musician, and found himself in need of a simple way to trigger samples via MIDI when on stage. So many commercial ...

Conway’s Game of Life excels in its simplicity, creating a cellular automaton on a 2D grid where each cell obeys a set of very simple rules that determine whether a cell is ...

Some days, it feels like we’re getting all the bad parts of cyberpunk and none of the cool stuff. Megacorps and cyber warfare? Check. Flying cars and holograms? Not quite yet. This week, ...

Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and ...

Tic-Tac-Toe is a relatively simple game, and one of the few which has effectively been solved for perfect play. The nature of ...

Assembler syntax is a touchy subject, with many a flamewar having raged over e.g. Intel vs AT&T style syntax. Thus when [Humberto Costa] recently acquired an MSX system for some fun ...

Sometimes the right tool for the right job appears almost out of nowhere. That was certainly the case for [Jonathan] who came across an unusual but well-designed robot at a secondhand shop. The ...