Sometimes you need random numbers — and properly random ones, at that. [Sean Boyce] whipped up a rig that serves up just that ...

In the 90s, a video game craze took over the youth of the world — but unlike today’s games that rely on powerful PCs or ...

Classic demos from the demoscene are all about showing off one’s technical prowess, with a common side order of a slick ...

In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears ...

IMSAI Guy] grabbed an obsolete XOR gate and tried a classic circuit to turn it into a frequency doubler. Of course, being an ...

It was probably Montesquieu who coined the proto-hacker motto “the best is the mortal enemy of the good”. He was talking about compromises in drafting national constitutions for nascent ...

Sometimes, a flat display just won’t cut it. If you’re looking for something a little rounder, perhaps your vision could persist in in looking at [lhm0]’s rotating LED sphere ...

In the 2000s, the DVD industry was concerned about piracy, in particular the threat to their business model presented by ...

Researchers at Aikido run the Aikido Intel system, an LLM security monitor that ingests the feeds from public package ...

If you’ve been car shopping lately, or even if you’ve just been paying attention to the news, you’ll probably be at least somewhat familiar with the kerfuffle over AM radio. The idea is that ...

Scanning the firehose of new electronic kits and modules coming from the usual Chinese suppliers can be a rewarding experience, as sometimes among the endless breakout boards comes an item that ...

When it comes to open source signal analysis software for logic analyzers and many other sensors, Sigrok is pretty much the only game in town. Unfortunately after an issue with the server hosting, ...