The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980.  They’ve since discontinued that ...

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

A well-known property of wall warts like power bricks and USB chargers is that they always consume some amount of power even ...

Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was ...

The best part about retro computing is the idea that you’ll save some poor system from being scrapped and revive it to a ...

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

When Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered, it created a bit of a kerfuffle when it was reported it had a couple-percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. At 60 meters (196 feet) across, this ...

It’s a well-known conundrum that while most computers these days are digital in nature, almost nothing in nature is. Most things we encounter in the real world, whether it’s temperature, time, sound, ...

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 ...

These days, it’s pretty easy to slap together a single-board computer and a cheap LCD screen to whip up a cool cyberdeck fast ...

What’s the first thing you think of when you see an old GPS navigation system for sale cheap at a garage sale? Our research indicates that 100% of people would wonder if it could run Doom; at least ...

In the six months that have passed after the last USB-C article has been released, I have thought up a bunch of ways that these articles could have been improved. It’s, of course, normal to have such ...