If you’ve ever wondered about the planes flying above your head, you could always listen in to ADS-B transmissions to learn ...

Amidst one of the worst heatwaves in European history, Britain’s national grid saw itself faced with a quiet crisis this ...

The Amazon Echo Dot is one of Amazon’s so-called ‘smart speaker’ offerings that tie into their larger Alexa-fueled ecosystem, ...

Evan Monsma], the prolific experimenter with cameras, found himself with an issue: he had a small Sony action camera with ...

Roni Bandini]’s JEV WiFi Analyzer is an interesting experiment that glues together a single-board Linux computer, a USB WiFi ...

Recently [shraiwi] decided to have a bit of good nerdy fun and implement the FAST machine vision algorithm on an ESP32-S3 using its SIMD ISA. This involves using the assembly instructions for the ISA, ...

It’s no big secret at this point that we are looking at the final years of the two venerable Voyager spacecraft. With their power supplies diminishing and their 1970s-era electronics still ...

Many readers will be familiar with Douglas Englebart’s 1968 so-called “Mother of All Demos”, in which he described many of ...

In just under a week from today, almost 700 hackers will be getting together in Pasadena, CA for three days of scheming, soldering, and socializing. If you’re able to join us, you absolutely ...

In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasn’t the first OO language, ...

Last week brought us at least two broken embargoes: php2shell leaked onto Hacker News a day early, and a batch of Linux kernel bugs landed on the public kernel mailing list instead of the private ...

When working on an electronic project it’s likely you will find yourself working with a variety of different instruments, be ...