When you think about the dawn of modern computers, you often think about the work done in the UK and the US. But Australia had an early computer scene, too, and [State of Electronics] has done a ...

In the 1982 movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, a classroom of students receives a set of paperwork to pass backward. Nearly ...

When you think of attacking or defending computer systems, you probably think of software viruses and the corresponding ...

On 31 March of this year we had to bid farewell to Charlotte Elizabeth “Betty” Webb (née Vine-Stevens) at the age of 101. She ...

It’s not often you’ll see us singing the praises of Microsoft on these pages, but credit where credit is due, this ...

You can salvage lithium 18650 cells from all sorts of modern gadgets, from disposable vapes to cordless power tools. The tricky part, other than physically liberating them from whatever they are ...

There seems to be nothing a 555 can’t do. We’ve seen it before, but [electronzapdotcom] reminds us you can use a 555 and a few parts to make a reasonable touch switch. The circuit ...

The plethora of smart home devices available today deliver all manner of opportunities, but it’s fair to say that interfacing ...

Somewhere in the universe, there’s a place that lists every x86 operating system from scratch. Not just some bootloaders, or just a kernel stub, but documentation to build a fully ...

Macro pads are handy for opening up your favorite programs or executing commonly used keyboard shortcuts. But why stop there?