Despite the availability of ready-made displays never being better, there are still some hardy experimenters who take on the challenge of making their own. In [Ben Holmen]’s case the display ...

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

An old friend of mine at my hackerspace introduced me to the concept of Prototype Zero: The Version that Even Your Own Sweet Mother Isn’t Allowed to See. The idea is that when you’re building ...

Beyblade spinning tops are pretty easy to find at toy shops, department stores, and even some supermarkets. However, the arenas in which the tops do battle? They’re much harder to come by, ...

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

Elliot and Dan got together this week for a review of the week’s hacking literature, and there was plenty to discuss. We ...

Normally, if you change a file’s extension in Windows, it doesn’t do anything positive. It just makes the file open in the wrong programs that can’t decode what’s inside.

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable TV adapter. It was excessively cheap, and even more mysteriously, ...

Entries keep ticking in for the One Hertz Challenge, some more practical than others. [Pierre-Loup M.]’s One Hertz Sculpture ...

Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too, but very few of us ever get to pull it off. [Erich Styger] has, though with V5 of his “MetaMetaClock”– a clock made of ...

Before the era of large-scale integration (LSI) semiconductor circuits, discrete logic circuits using the common ...

Imagine you have a projector pointing at a scene, which you’re photographing with a camera aimed from a different point.