I’m going to leave ancient keyboards behind (for a moment), and leap into the future. Well, the maybe future. Dirty ca$h: CK76 Update: CK76 is coming. Another slip of the tongue:…

The JetKVM Mini is a tiny device that lets you control a computer from anywhere, all the way down to the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System, the firmware screen you see before your operating system…

Meet the MEET MS-BDTP1A multimeter! The MEET MS-BDTP1A multimeter is a cute battery-powered, very portable, pen-style multimeter. The maker has a handy web page with the full specs. This is my second…

Back in the day, I used to be a writer and editor for Test&Measurement World, an electronics engineering trade journal. Well, I’m still a test and measurement nerd, and I enjoy reading…

Recently, reception reports of several US Navy stations (Barford, Niscemi, Lualualei, Diego Garcia, among others) appeared on the UDXF mailing list. These stations seem to use the MS-110A waveform…

ZA/AE5XWhile making several activations of Alpet e Shqipërisë National Park (AL-0001) in northern Albania earlier this week, I had a total of three QSO's with Alexey RT7O. Each time, Alexey used…

Last time , we broke down the switch and had a look around its PCB. We identified some chips, found their datasheets, and learned a bit about how it's put together. This time let's get a bit more…

A review of the Razer Basilisk V3 Pro 35K in its translucent Phantom White edition, compared to the regular Basilisk V3 Pro that I had been using since 2024.

Over time I bought several V2L adapters for my Volvo EX30, hoping one of them would work (even before software version 2.x), but none ever did. When the official V2L adapter became available (part…

Olight Oclip 2 Ultra Specifications Introduction Torch in use Build quality LED, bezel, lens and reflector Size and comparison User interface Batteries and charging Performance Beamshots Thermal…

Learn how I linked an EcoFlow STREAM Ultra to my STREAM 5000 system through house wiring, including app setup, firmware and a custom-mode scheduling workaround.

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Formlabs Form Studio 1 review: print quality, the Flex platform, the $199 Wash+Cure, cheaper Alpha resins and free Open Material Mode on a $699 resin printer.

Crate digging old keyboards is fun! I’ve been recording and collecting Yamaha DJX (PSR-D1) MIDI style patterns. To my knowledge, no one has made DJX MIDI patterns available. Now, for the first…

For Gab's birthday I built a 13.3-inch colour ePaper display which fetches the New York Times front page, keeps five editions and sets itself up without an attached computer.

The 5C Nano sits flush in the side port of my laptop, which is the reason to buy a Nano in the first place. It also means my palm drags across it a few dozen times a day, and every pass fires…

Published a new Digital Snippet for AV Club: Human-instrument control surfaces

The RovyVon GS15 remote switch has two buttons: a large one, and a small one for the visible override. It connects over a Crane plug, which only has two contacts, so the light tells the buttons apart…

In Italy, Lombardy spent 24 millions for thousands of voting machines, used them once, then they ended up in the grey market. What’s inside them?

Now you can install directly inside GateLab the openXC7 toolchain for supporting the Xilinx 7 family. It even supports devices…

Posted 14 October 2026 WallE, my autonomous wall-following robot had a nominal capability called “run to daylight”. The idea was to use this as a last resort when all the other…

During the last few weeks I have been sharing multiple blog posts in which I’ve been reflecting about my own goal for this year to complete the transition away from US Big Tech into whatever…

For the past several months, I’ve been reviewing Hall effect keyboards exclusively. Now I’m branching out into the world of mechanical boards, which I’ve stayed away from up to now because I find…

We bought Google Home devices a few years ago, and one of the things we use them most for is setting timers for things like cooking and washing. We have a few devices around the house, and for some…

I recently bought a 128 GB Strix Halo box to run coding models locally. In a word, it's usable.

I love hardware, and I love peripherals most of all. I care more about my keyboard and mouse than about the computer itself, because they are what I interact with all day. I enjoy the feel of a good…

Embedded work usually means a serial terminal open in another window, and a search for whichever ttyUSB the board landed on today. The latest video shows [yoe] taking over that job: it attaches to…

So after my initial TankBot ESP32 build, I wanted to expand on the capabilities. Now the platform is fully adaptable to size and scale, which sensors are available, and can even use a variety of…

An ePaper display for your shelf that calculates each day which satellites you’ll actually see at night, along with hourly cloud cover and planets. Flash the firmware from your browser.📖 Read full…

A big thank you for all of the coilers and exhibitors, and for LMW&S for letting us use their fabulous museum. My Coils Dave’s coils Jason’s Coils Phil’s coils and demos Ian and…

Poking the VGA card term% cat /dev/pci/*ctl 06.00.00 8086/29c0 0 03.00.00 1234/1111 0 0:fd000008 16777216 2:feb94000 4096 02.00.00 8086/10d3 11 0:feb40000 131072 1:feb60000 131072 2:0000c041 32…

SATSAGEN software turns the Pluto+ SDR into a vector network analyzer measuring S11 and S21, working well above the range of the popular NanoVNA. With a surplus directional coupler and a few cheap…

How a cardstock name tag became 1,750 programmable circuit boards, and everything that went wrong along the way.