At the recent 38C3 conference in Germany, someone gave a talk about sending TOSLINK digital audio over fiber optic networks ...

Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in ...

For a lot of us, soldering just seems to come naturally. But if we’re being honest, none of us was born with a soldering iron ...

If you read Japanese, you might have seen the book “Design and Implementation of Microkernels” by [Seiya Nuda]. An appendix ...

Whether you only dabble in electronics as a hobby or it’s your full-time job, there are few tools as indispensable as the multimeter. In fact, we’d be willing to bet nearly everyone reading ...

Many of us used “big iron” back in the day. Computers like the IBM S/360 or 3090 are hard to find, transport, and operate, so ...

How do you know that your patch cables are good? For simple jumper wires, a multimeter is about all you need to know for sure ...

Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the ...

Stephen Woodward] is familiar with digital potentiometers but is also familiar with their limitations. That spurred him to ...

[Mattmopar] figured out how to get a white Christmas even if the weather isn’t frightful. He built a simple DIY snow making machine with a few plumbing parts, and tools you probably already have.

Face it, we’ve all been there, in a crowded workshop building something, and horror of horrors, things are going to get a ...

A bit ago, I’ve told you about how the Sony Vaio motherboard replacement started, and all the tricks I used to make it succeed on the first try. How do you plan out the board, what are good ...