The Timex Sinclair 1000 was a sleek and compact machine, and the US counterpart to the more well-known Spectrum ZX-81. Timex may not have come to dominate the computer market, but the machine ...

We’ve all been there. That sad day when the zipper on our favorite hoodie, bag, or pair of pants breaks in some seemingly ...

LEDs were once little more than weedy little indicators with low light output. Today, they’re absolute powerhouses, efficiently turning a flow of electrons into a searing beam of light.

The Camp Snap is a simple fixed-focus digital camera with only an optical viewfinder and a shot counter, which has become a ...

The Free Software Foundation is holding an auction to celebrate its 40th anniversary. You can bid on the original sketch of ...

Prolific woodworking YouTuber [Matthias Wandel] makes some awesome mechanical contraptions, and isn’t afraid of computers, ...

A significant event in the world of high-power electrical engineering is under way this weekend, as the three Baltic states, ...

With so many cheap oscilloscopes out there, the market for old units isn’t what it used to be. But if you have a really old scope, like the Heathkit O-10 that [Ken] found in his basement, ...

Like many pieces of lab equipment, oscilloscopes are both extremely useful and rather intimidating to a fledgling user. Unlike a digital multimeter with its point-and-measure functionality, ...

It seems obvious once you think about it, but if you can spin your cell phone and coordinate the display with the motion, you ...

Open source software can be fantastic. I run almost exclusively open software, and have for longer than I care to admit. And although I’m not a serious coder by an stretch, I fill out bug reports ...

Generally speaking, writing your own games for retro consoles starts with C code. You’ll need to feed that through a ...