There’s a naming overload here, as two bits of security news this week are using the “MacStealer” moniker. We’re first going ...

Modern microcontrollers often have specs comparable with or exceeding early gaming consoles. However, where they tend to fall ...

If you look up at the night sky in a dark enough place, with enough patience you’re almost sure to see a satellite cross the sky. It’s pretty cool to think you’re watching light reflect off a hunk of ...

Despite the popular adage about everything on the internet being there forever, every day pages of information and sometimes ...

If you’ve done any amount of electronic design work, you’ll be familiar with the need for decoupling capacitors. Sometimes a ...

Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the ...

Travelling the continent’s hackerspaces over the years, I have visited quite a few spaces located in university towns. They share a depressingly common theme, of a community hackerspace full of former ...

When you want a backpack that turns heads and gets people talking, you can get ahead of the conversation with a talking backpack. [Nina] created a rucksack with the legendary babbler itself, the ...

Typically, when you’re putting electronics in a robot, you install the various controller PCBs into the robot’s chassis. But what if the PCB itself was the chassis? [Carl ...

Neural interfaces have made great strides in recent years, but still suffer from poor longevity and resolution. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a biohybrid implant to improve ...

Clockwork devices were popular right up until motors and electronics proved far more capable in just about every way. However ...

During the 1990s, music was almost invariably stored on CDs or cassette tapes. When the new millennium came around, physical ...