Speech recognition was once the stuff of science fiction, but it’s now possible with relatively modest hardware. Just how ...

Six tiny gears, a few fancy pins, and some clever casting are what it takes to build this tiny orrery. And patience — a lot ...

When you are young, you take it for granted that you can pick out a voice in a crowded room or a factory floor. But as you ...

[Felipe Tavares] wasn’t satisfied with the boring default fonts on an HD44780-based display. And while you can play some ...

In the early days of the internet, online conversations were an event. The technology was novel, and it was suddenly possible ...

At one point, the Motorola 6809 seemed like a great CPU. At the time it was a modern 8-bit CPU and was capable of hosting ...

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Thomas] found an interesting probable millivoltmeter with some Beckman displays. Like many instruments from that time period, ...

In the annals of ambitious engineering projects, few have captured the imagination and courted controversy quite like Gerald ...

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It’s that time of year again when some parts of our community travel out into the countryside to spend time with each other ...

The radio hackers in the audience will be familiar with a spectrogram display, but for the uninitiated, it’s basically a ...