Some troubling news hit overnight as the United States Post Office announced via a terse “Service Alert” that they would ...

This technique shared by [Andy Kong] is for 3D printed lenses, but would probably be worth a shot for any resin prints that ...

For better or worse, the fundamental design of guitars has remained familiar since they electrified around a century ago. A ...

A few weeks ago we brought you news of a new palmtop computer for hackers, powered by the new Espressif ESP32-P4 application ...

Surface mount devices have gotten really small, so small that a poorly timed sneeze can send your 0603 and 0402 parts off to live with the dust motes lurking at the edge of your bench. While ...

The invention of the computer is a tricky thing to pinpoint. There were some early attempts that were not well known and some early attempts that were deliberately secret. [Alan Turing]’s ...

If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ball. You might assume this was just an arbitrary gimmick, but it ...

A well-known secret in the world of open source software is that many projects rely on donated hosting for everything from their websites to testing infrastructure. When the company providing said ...

The DeepSeek large language models (LLM) have been making headlines lately, and for more than one reason. IEEE Spectrum has ...

The Universal Serial Bus. The one bus to rule them all.  It brought peace and stability to the world of computer peripherals.

If you compare a modern PCB with a typical 1980s PCB, you might notice — like [lcamtuf] did — that newer boards tend to have ...

Soldering irons and their tips come in a wide range of formats and styles, with the (originally Hakko) T12 being one of the more interesting offerings. This is because of how it integrates not ...