Over the course of its nearly 30 years in orbit, the International Space Station has played host to more “firsts” than can ...

Since the RP2040 microcontroller is available as a stand-alone component, it’s easy enough for third parties to churn out ...

AC induction motors are everywhere, from ceiling fans to vehicles. They’re reliable, simple, and rugged — but there are some disadvantages. It’s difficult to control the speed ...

Jones], like us, has a soft spot for the educational electronic kits from days gone by. In a recent video you can see below, ...

For those born with certain types of congenital deafness, the cochlear implant has been a positive and enabling technology.

Writing good, performant code depends strongly on an understanding of the underlying hardware. This is especially the case in ...

These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in ...

We are all familiar enough by now with the succession of boards that have come from Raspberry Pi in Cambridge over the years, ...

A talk, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform, was presented by [Joshua Wise] at Teardown 2025 in June last ...

As computers like the venerable breadbox Commodore 64 age, their plastic doesn’t just turn increasing shades of yellow and ...

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough ...

If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write code. And if you write code eventually you’re gonna have to ...