Do you have old landline phones laying around the house, with touchtone buttons or rotary dials? Perhaps you’d like to do something with them! [Scott Dylewski] has built hardware to let you ...

If you wanted to make a game that ran on a commodity microcontroller, you could be forgiven for not knowing where to start.

The Tang Nano 9K is a cheap FPGA development board that can usually be acquired for around $15 or so. [ThePartsBin] has been experimenting with this hardware and figured out how to set it up as a ...

Although not technically the first virtual pet, the Tamagotchi handhelds certainly popularized the idea and made it a worldwide phenomenon. In the late 90s it was hard to go out in public and not see ...

Palm OS, an operating system for a range mobile devices that predated mobile phones, is largely forgotten today. Or at least, ...

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

If you’re a big retro tech fan, you might still have a floppy drive on hand, or even some sort of high-end disk imaging solution. If you’re a little less committed, you may still have ...

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

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

We announced our first round of speakers, and then the workshops, and we were going to dribble out updates on the rest of the ...

Although the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (F-T synthesis) process is well-known and on face value quite straightforward, using ...

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