For users of a certain age, fractal patterns and computers are nearly synonymous. Typing in BASIC programs and seeing the ...

There’s a niche genre of text adventure that’s halfway between a traditional novel and a videogame. Think Zork if it had an ...

All but a few of our very youngest readers are surely familiar with music formats that rely on optical disks. When we say ...

The Universe is a large place, yet despite it being mostly empty space, there are still a lot of things to find and catalogue ...

The TermDriver 2 is a USB-to-serial interface with a twist—it has a built-in screen for displaying relevant information. It ...

This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and ...

Printed circuit boards were developed first for function over form. They were a way to mount components and connect them in a ...

These days there are emulators for all the great consoles of yesteryear, as well as old retrocomputers and arcade machines ...

As children, many of us looked wistfully into the cockpits of heavy machinery, wondering just how the series of knobs and ...

Launch a single static binary executable, send someone a QR code or URL (or failing that, text a numerical code or shout it across a room), and they’ll get an encrypted terminal in their browser. No ...

No matter what kind of computer or phone you are reading this on, it probably has a graphics system that would have been a powerful computer on its own back in the 1980s. When the IBM PC came out, you ...

[Nicholas LaBonte] shows off a Cyberdeck Handheld that demonstrates just how good something can look when care and attention goes into the design and fabrication. He wanted to make something that ...