Flight sims are wonderful to play around with to get immersed in the position of a pilot. Racing sims can give you a thrill ...

The 19th century was an absolutely electrifying era, including in a literal sense. Although the phenomenon of electricity had ...

While the original name of what much of the world knows as the NES was the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, it ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Pity the poor Australians. Isolated on a jagged hunk of land far from everywhere else, these industrious people have to take two-legged flights (or more) to reach a great many destinations in the ...

Happy belated July 4th to all the readers from the United States — hopefully you aren’t reading this from a hospital bed ...

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

Generally, LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries are quite safe and stable, but it’s still possible for something to go wrong, even ...

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

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