Having owned an Amiga microcomputer is apparently a little bit like having shaken hands with Shoggoth: no one can escape unchanged from the experience. Thirty-two years on, [Neil] at The Retro ...

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers ...

Hearing voices’ doesn’t have to be worrisome, for instance when software-defined radio (SDR) happens to be your hobby. It can ...

Over on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself ...

There was a time when making a cloud chamber with dry ice and alcohol was one of those ‘rite of passage’ type science projects every nerdy child did. That time may or may not be ...

The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you will know it ...

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable ...

Many of us have boiled an egg at some point or another in our lives. The conventional technique is relatively straightforward ...

Lightning is a powerful force, one seemingly capable of great destruction in the right circumstances. It announces itself ...

We can’t throw stones. [Leaded Solder] picked up a SparcStation 1+ in 2018 and found it only produced illegal instruction ...

Australia is known for great beaches, top-tier coffee, and a laidback approach to life that really doesn’t square with all ...

Like many early microcomputers, the Commodore VIC-20 did not come with an interna real-time clock built into the system.