There was a time when all the cool kids had a 45 RPM record player. [RF Burns] picked up a 1950s-era player from  RCA. However, it needed a lot of work. The good news? We get to see the teardown ...

Like the rest of us, 8-bit hardware is not getting any newer, and failed ROMs are just a fact of life. Of course you can’t ...

EFI from cables is something every ham loves to hate. What if you modulated, that, though, using an ordinary cable as an ...

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

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 ...

If you’re a solo musician, you probably have lots of gear you’d like to control, but you don’t have enough hands. You can ...

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 ...

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 ...

How many times do you have to forget your keys before you start hacking on the problem? For [Binh], the answer was 5 in the last month, and his hack was to make a gesture-based door unlocker.

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

Humans have forever been using all manner of techniques to better secure the food we need to sustain our lives. The practice ...

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