Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but [Andy Didorosi] thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with ...

Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image ...

What do you get when you take 8,192 CH570 MCUs, put them on custom PCBs, and write firmware for this interconnected gaggle of cores? In the case of [bitluni]’s project, you get something that’s ...

There are plenty of radios you can buy that pick up MW and SW bands if that’s what you’re into. Or, you can follow [mircemk]’s example, and whip one up yourself instead. The build employs an ESP32 as ...

When light reflects off a surface, not all of it reflects off at the same wavelength; some photons impart a portion of their ...

BillPg] has been designing a fantasy 1980s-era home computer. As part of the exercise, he’s reevaluating all the assumptions that have grown organically over time in the small computer ...

For as good as solar panels are at converting sunlight directly into usable electricity, especially for how cheap they’re ...

Although there’s probably no good reason to want to run image editing software from 1996 other than for nostalgia’s sake, if you ever wanted to run the GIMP version 0.54 from back when Windows 98 was ...

In theory, MIDI is an electrical and protocol standard that allows any such equipped instrument or computer to talk to any ...

Menell] have shown that AI Large Language Models (LLMs) can fail to correctly distinguish between different instruction ...

If you’re big into retrocomputing, you probably spend a lot of time chasing parts and machines on online classifieds or ...

Once upon a time, there was a bit of a fad for fingerprint authentication in laptops and desktop computers. It has long since ...