The PICO-8 is what is known as a ‘fantasy console’– you can program it, and there are oodles of games, but it’s not actually ...

Continuing their reverse-engineering of Intel’s 8087 FPU, [Ken Shirriff] and friends took a look at one of the trigonometric ...

Although the Nintendo 64 was the first to bring real 3D graphics to the table in 1996, the Super Nintendo had an ace up its ...

PCB circuits are cool, but you know what is cooler? Terminator circuits that’s what! And what if the same material that makes ...

Considering how important it is for everything from navigation to keeping clocks in sync, satellite navigation systems are ...

Flip dot displays are cool, and more people realize that after [mixela]’s fluid simulation on flip dots installation was on ...

The problem with trying to make a fish tank fit in your pocket is that you’ll either end up with water everywhere or a bunch ...

Few pieces of vintage audio gear from the turn of the century (the previous one) inspire the kind of devotion that a Leslie speaker does. Sure, there are plenty of pieces that are rarer or more ...

You’ve probably heard of rubidium frequency standards, which are used where you need an extremely accurate time or frequency reference. [IMSAI] guy has a good explainer video about what’s actually ...

For a while now we’ve followed the slow progression of affordable integrated circuit fabrication, and through the likes of ...

For a full-fledged, bells-and-whistles driving simulator a number of unique human interface devices are needed, from pedals and shifters to the steering wheel. These steering wheels often have force ...

Erin Kennedy has been building robots for over a decade now, with a focus on smaller bots that interact with, or maybe even clean up, the outdoor environment. Still other bots are made to interact ...