On Friday, Reuters reported that Amazon is going to try to get into the smartphone game…again. The Fire Phone was perhaps ...

Odds are, you’ve taken pills before; it’s a statistical certainty that some of you reading this took several this morning.

Thermal energy storage is pretty great, as phase-change energy storage is very consistent with its energy output over time, ...

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980.  They’ve since discontinued that ...

Although the RTL-SDR is cheap, accessible, and capable enough for many projects, it does have some important limitations. In ...

A well-known property of wall warts like power bricks and USB chargers is that they always consume some amount of power even ...

Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was ...

While it might not be comprehensive, [Bret.dk] recently posted a retrospective titled “Every Single Board Computer I Tested in 2025.” The post covers 15 boards from 8 different companies. The cheapest ...

If you mis-spent your teenage years fishing broken televisions from dumpsters and either robbing them for parts or fixing them for the ability to watch The A Team upstairs rather than in the living ...

Some time ago, Lego released a beautiful (and somewhat pricey) typewriter set that was modeled after one used by company founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen. To the disappointment of some, it doesn’t ...

If you own a laptop that’s got a few years on the clock, you’ve probably contemplated getting a replacement battery for it. Which means you also know how much legitimate OEM packs cost compared to the ...

Unitree have a number of robotic offerings, and are one of the first manufacturers offering humanoid robotic platforms. It seems they are also the subject of UniPwn, one of the first public exploits ...