The hardware isn’t much different than what you’d find in a conventional macropad. The Raccoon Lab designed a custom PCB hosting a microcontroller, mechanical key switches, a small LCD screen, a ...

This is a cube about five inches to a side, with a kind of foot on one side. It rests on that foot. When activated, the foot ...

Now, researchers have developed a robotic fish called ScaFi that makes moving between environments far easier. Instead of being designed around one particular size, ScaFi can be scaled from around ...

SID SYNTH turns a C64 into a live synthesizer (📷: LukHash) The Commodore 64's SID chip is responsible for some of the most recognizable sounds of the 8-bit era, but there is no reason it has to be ...

Gaming giant Valve has opened sign-ups for its second-generation in-house virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame — and while it's designed to be "streaming first" the company has also telegraphed a ...

A simple wireless communication system that connects two Arduino boards using paired HC-05 Bluetooth modules, with one acting as the Master Wireless communication between two microcontrollers can be ...

Sending a text message means reaching for a phone and relying on a cellular network or an internet connection for delivery. But if all you need is a way for two devices to exchange messages over a ...

Edge AI on the board watches my 3D printer and warns me the moment a print fails — no cloud, no subscription.