Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage discharges being a major risk to buildings, ...

The Intel 8051 series of 8-bit microcontrollers is long-discontinued by its original manufacturer, but lives on as a core ...

Not too long ago, I was searching for ideas for the next installment of the “Big Chemistry” series when I found an article ...

If you take two objects with fairly smooth surfaces, and put these together, you would not expect them to stick together. At ...

Cryptographic messaging has been in the news a lot recently. Like the formal audit of WhatsApp (the actual PDF). And the ...

No, see, it’s what’s inside that counts. Believe it or not, [nobutternoparm] retrofitted this innocent, adorable little ...

You think of op amps as amplifiers because, no kidding, it is right in the name. But just like some people say, “you could do ...

In these days of everything-streaming, it’s great to see an old school radio build. It’s even better when it’s not old-school ...

Mira] found himself slipping into a bit of a rabbit hole while investigating why only under Apple II MAME emulation there was ...

Not all clamp meters are the same, and this video shows just that. In a recent teardown by [Kerry Wong], the new Fnirsi ...

Morse code can be daunting to learn when you’re new to the game, particularly if you need it to pass your desired radio ...

We don’t often consider using do-it-yourself projects as a hedge against the apocalypse. But [The Thought Emporium] thinks we ...