Recently [Ken Shirriff] got handed a mystery IC by [CuriousMarc] who had found said IC in a box of various old chips.

Despite the recent leaps forward in other forms of computer-driven design, the reliability of PCB autorouters remains ...

You’ve probably heard of Mars Pathfinder, the NASA lander and its Sojourner rover that took up residence on Mars in 1997. At ...

The Abric Romaní site in Spain is rather unique in archeology for one simple reason: the caves in its limestone-rich cliff ...

Valve recently began shipping its long-awaited VR headset, the Steam Frame. Now, there is a hardware reference repository ...

As Director of the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, Margaret Hamilton was responsible for ...

The camera in a typical mobile phone is now at a standard at which it can be considered a serious device rather than a toy, ...

As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will ...

Although the feature has been deleted from newer models, there was a time when Amazon’s Echo devices included a 3.5 mm “aux” ...

Before HDMI and DVI there was VGA, and before that? TTL RGB, in which instead of analogue voltages, the connector carried TTL logic voltages. TTL monitors used to be ten a penny because nobody ...

We covered [Nick Bild]’s mini Atari console using original devices not so long ago, and today he’s back with the same console ...

Nick Bild] evidently has a soft spot for the 6502, given that his Vectron65 Plus home computer project uses at least one of ...