When building your own homebrew computer, everything is a challenge. Ultimately, that’s kind of the point. If you didn’t want to really get your hands dirty with the nuts and bolts of the thing, you ...

Before there were smartphones, there were personal digital assistants like the Palm Pilot, Handspring Visor, and Compaq/HP iPAQ line of devices. And before those, there were really basic PDAs, like ...

What do you get if you cross a Raspberry Pi computer with an Arduino microcontroller? It might be an awful setup for a joke, but it's an enticing question if you're an electronics hobbyist or Internet ...

You can forget about the IBM Personal Computer and drop all the pretense about the 1984 Apple Macintosh. When it comes to which personal computer is the most influential of all time, there can only be ...

Quantum computers aren’t quite ready for the home lab, but since there are ways to connect to some over the Internet, you can experiment with them more easily than you might think. [Norbert] decided ...

Arduino boards are small, inexpensive devices that let you build things with sensors (to control anything from a robot to a home automation system). The Raspberry Pi is a small, single board computer ...

A maker developer has squeezed an Arduino onto an SD card. His aim was to go one better than Intel’s Edison. Already dubbed SDuino, it is kodera2t’s entry for the Hackaday Prize. “Once I was excited ...

Who knew it could be this fun building a photo frame?

We often talk about programming in terms of developing apps and websites. But you can also learn to code by programming devices. The Arduino and the Raspberry Pi both provide a great learning ground ...