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

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

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

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

They may not deliver the highest efficiency, but absorption refrigerators have earned a persistent place in camper vans and ...

The Godox C100 is a cheap camera that’s best described as a toy, its party trick being a large clear viewfinder with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over on IEEE Spectrum, [Stephen Cass] has a project that would probably have seemed like a magic a few centuries ago. Imagine ...

We’re living at an interesting time here in 2026, when microcontrollers are becoming powerful enough to surpass the ...