But did you know that pi has an evil twin represented by the symbol ϖ? As [John Carlos Baez] explains, it and its related ...

If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned with ...

Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of the keys worked. Each and ...

An unfortunate reality of pre-1990s computer systems is that any manuals and documentation that came with them likely only ...

Corelatus] said recently that “someone” asked them to identify the phone signals in the 1982 film The Wall, based on the Pink ...

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their Trinitron line of televisions, Sony launched the KX-45ED1. At forty three inches the screen on this particular model made it the largest tube ...

We all know and love the humble seven-segment display, right? And if you want to make characters as well as numbers, you can do an okay job with sixteen segments off the shelf. But if you want ...

You wouldn’t typically associate graphing calculators with artificial intelligence, but hacker [KermMartian] recently made it ...

Tales of Raspberry Pi SD card corruption are available online by the fistful, and are definitely a constant in Pi-adjacent communities. It’s apparent that some kind of problems tend to arise ...

There are a huge number of ways to track the sun if you have some reason to do so. You can use time-based algorithms, or feed in coordinates from the Internet, or you could do it with minimal ...

Bringing modern connectivity to retro computers is an endearing field- with the simplicity of last-century hardware and software being a double-edged sword, often, you bring a powerful and tiny ...

Often, when we think of long-endurance flights, our first thoughts jump to military operations. Big planes with highly-trained crew will fly for long periods, using air-to-air refuelling to stay ...