Game jams are a fun competition in which the aim is to write a game under a particular theme while under a time constraint, ...

Although the demise of the Zilog Z80 processor has long been predicted, it would seem that this moment has finally arrived.

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

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

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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

It’s no secret that the size of webpages has been slowly — or not so slowly — creeping up over the years. Does a simple ...

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 ...