One of the longest running jokes in our sphere is that the coming year will finally be the year of “Linux on the Desktop.” ...

It’s the end of the year, and a few hardy souls gather in a hackerspace to enjoy a bit of seasonal food and hang out.

Within our comfortable world of causality we expect that reactions always follow an action and not vice versa. This why the recent chatter in the media about researchers having discovered ...

Around here, we love it when someone identifies a need and creates their own solution. In this case, [Engineer Bo] was tired of endless and imprecise scrolling with a mouse wheel. No off-the-shelf ...

When [Tahmid Mahbub] recently reached for his ‘Lavolta’ BPS-305 bench supply, he was dismayed to find that despite it being a ...

The world of audio has produced a variety of different loudspeaker designs over the last century, though it’s fair to say that the trusty moving coil reigns supreme. That hasn’t ...

While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely ...

If there’s anything more annoying to an amateur radio operator than noise, we’re not sure what it could be. We’re talking about radio frequency noise, of course, the random ...

We talk about Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred ...

When ships moved from muscle- and wind power to burning coal and other fossil fuels for their propulsion, they also became ...

We’re covering two weeks of news today, which is handy, because the week between Christmas and New Years is always a bit slow ...

It’s not something we always think about, but the reality is that many of the affordable electronic components we enjoy today are only available to us because they’re surplus parts ...