There are lots of smart home systems that will let you blast your older dumb appliances with infrared to control them.

Custom peripheral projects are among the most rewarding. Especially if you’re like me and you sit at the computer eight hours ...

Since the first electronic hobbyist wired up a multivibrator to a keyboard many decades ago, electonic synthesisers have been ...

These days, even an old Game Boy will set you back $100 or more, and a new handheld console will be many multiples of that.

Making headlines everywhere is the CopyFail Linux kernel vulnerability, which allows local privilege escalation (LPE) from any user to root privileges on most kernels and distributions. Local ...

After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the ...

The solar system is kind of hard to observe in motion all at once. Sometimes, it’s nice to have a little model to look at, so ...

Producing hot water off-grid is a surprisingly energy-intensive activity, and although it looks simple on its surface it can ...

You can get all kinds of fancy lenses for modern cameras, with all sorts of mechanical and electronic wizardly to make them ...

You may not know what a ADM-3, a TV910, or a H1420 are, but you probably have at least heard of a VT-100. They are all ...

Since Sony’s PlayStation 5 console is quite literally an AMD-based gaming PC with a custom mainboard, the only thing that ...

DHCP is great for getting machines on the network with a minimum of fuss. However, it can also make remote administration a ...