We are always fascinated by bubble memory. In the late 1970s, this was the “Next Big Thing” that, as you may have guessed, ...

Prototyping is a personal affair, with approaches ranging from dead-bug parts on tinplate through stripboard and protoboard, ...

Another day, another Internet-connected gadget that gets abandoned by its creators. This time it’s Jooki — a screen-free ...

When attempting to secure something, whether it’s a computer, sensitive data, or valuables, there’s always going to be a way ...

Detecting single photons can be seen as the backbone of cutting-edge applications like LiDAR, medical imaging, and secure optical communication. Miss one, and critical information could be lost ...

When the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) amateur radio satellite was launched in 1974, its expected lifespan was about five years. The plucky little satellite made it to 1981 when a battery failure caused it ...

We use ARM devices in everything from our microcontroller projects to our laptops, and many of us are aware of the architecture’s humble beginnings in a 1980s Acorn Archimedes computer. ARM ...

Lithium technology has ushered in a new era of batteries with exceptionally high energy density for a reasonably low cost.

Anyone will tell you that as hard as it is to create a working system, the real trick is making two systems talk to each other, especially if you created only one or none of them. That’s why ...

The Pomdoro technique of time management has moved on a little from the tomato-shaped kitchen timer which gave it a name, as ...

It might not be Pi Day anymore, but Elliot and Dan got together for the approximately 100*Pi-th episode of the Podcast to run ...

Printed circuit boards were once so simple. One or two layers of copper etched on a rectangular fiberglass substrate, with a ...