At the recent 38C3 conference in Germany, someone gave a talk about sending TOSLINK digital audio over fiber optic networks ...

If you read Japanese, you might have seen the book “Design and Implementation of Microkernels” by [Seiya Nuda]. An appendix ...

Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in ...

Many of us used “big iron” back in the day. Computers like the IBM S/360 or 3090 are hard to find, transport, and operate, so ...

Stephen Woodward] is familiar with digital potentiometers but is also familiar with their limitations. That spurred him to ...

It is old news that you can print PCB artwork on glossy paper and use a clothes iron to transfer the toner to a copper board, ...

Sheet metal is very easy to form, including the pressing in of intricate shapes with dies and a hydraulic press, but the dies themselves are slightly harder to come by. What if we could 3D print ...

Modern remote control (RC) radios are capable of incredible range, but they’re still only made for line-of-sight use. What if ...

For a lot of us, soldering just seems to come naturally. But if we’re being honest, none of us was born with a soldering iron ...

Every engineer is going to have a bad day, but only an unlucky few will have a day so bad that it registers on a seismometer. We’ve always had a morbid fascination with engineering ...

While some of us are still clinging onto our favorite 8-bit microprocessors, ARM announced they will be killing off the 32-bit architecture in 2022 and/or 2023. Over on the GaryExplains YouTube ...