Oh, the farming lifestyle…living off the land, fending for yourself. But who’s got time for all that? For the modern hacker, ...

Spud guns are a staple of summertime fun for the maker set, especially on the Eagleland side of the pond, combining as they ...

Flight sims are wonderful to play around with to get immersed in the position of a pilot. Racing sims can give you a thrill ...

On the one hand, the original Apple II has been copied over and over again since at least the early 80s, so maybe this hack ...

When light reflects off a surface, not all of it reflects off at the same wavelength; some photons impart a portion of their ...

Pity the poor Australians. Isolated on a jagged hunk of land far from everywhere else, these industrious people have to take two-legged flights (or more) to reach a great many destinations in the ...

The NTSC television standard is a masterpiece of mid-century engineering, to pack a color image into the transmission ...

Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image their subjects. Instead, they physically detect the subject’s surface with a ...

In theory, MIDI is an electrical and protocol standard that allows any such equipped instrument or computer to talk to any ...

Although there’s probably no good reason to want to run image editing software from 1996 other than for nostalgia’s sake, if you ever wanted to run the GIMP version 0.54 from back when Windows 98 was ...

Much like radio operators being encouraged to use the least possible amount of power to make a contact, chemists have a ...

The Intel 80386 is a rather fascinating slice of computer history. It marked the first 32 bit X86 processor, and was a staple of early desktop computing. Like all chips, it has a number of quirks, ...