Ryan] purchased a large fume extractor designed to sit on the floor below the work area and pull solder fumes down into its ...

Jonathan chats with Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss about KDE’s eco initiative and the End of 10 campaign! Is Open Source really a ...

If you are a certain age, you probably remember the ads and publicity around Chisanbop — the supposed ancient art of Korean ...

The volume slider on our virtual desktops is a skeuomorphic callback to the volume sliders on professional audio equipment on ...

Do you ever look at the news, and wonder about the process behind the news cycle? I did, and for the last couple of decades ...

It should probably come as no surprise to anyone that the images which we look at every day – whether printed or on a display – are simply illusions. That cat picture isn’t ...

We always enjoy [FloatHeadPhysics] explaining any math or physics topic. We don’t know if he’s acting or not, but he seems genuinely excited about every topic he covers, and it is ...

From the very dawn of the personal computing era, the PC and Apple platforms have gone very different ways. IBM compatibles surged in popularity, while Apple was able to more closely guard the ...

Some people can’t be bothered to read the analog face of a traditional clock. Some people cannot stand the low frequency “hum ...

Normally you can’t read out the One Time Programming (OTP) memory in Microchip’s PIC MCUs that have code protection enabled, ...

Sometimes a write-up of a piece of retrocomputing hardware goes way beyond the hardware itself and into the industry that ...

Aside from GPUs, you don’t hear much about co-processors these days. [bitluni] perhaps missed those days, because he found a ...