Ever play with a Peltier plate? They’re these really cool components that kind of look like a ceramic sandwich, and when you put power into them, one side gets hot, and one side gets freezing cold!

The Parallax Propeller is a powerful (multi-core!) chip that’s easily capable of handling video out, keyboard in, and serving ...

Sometimes the naming of parts in electronics can contribute to confusion about what they are good for, with the topic of ...

Shortly after [RCMakerLab] posted his question on potentially equipping an RC airplane with the electronic ducted fans (EDFs) from those airblower devices – are sold mostly as a replacement ...

It’s an exciting time to be a camera hacker, because we are at a moment when even cheap camera hardware is starting to have ...

It’s an exciting time to be a camera hacker, because we are at a moment when even cheap camera hardware is starting to have high resolution sensors, and the awesome camera phones of a few years ago ...

Do you have old landline phones laying around the house, with touchtone buttons or rotary dials? Perhaps you’d like to do something with them! [Scott Dylewski] has built hardware to let you ...

Cellular modems come and go, and they can be tricky beasts to tame – yet, in every portable computer project I’ve worked with ...

In the history of object-oriented (OO) computer languages, Smalltalk has a special place. It wasn’t the first OO language, ...

Palm OS, an operating system for a range mobile devices that predated mobile phones, is largely forgotten today. Or at least, ...

Although not technically the first virtual pet, the Tamagotchi handhelds certainly popularized the idea and made it a ...

Amidst one of the worst heatwaves in European history, Britain’s national grid saw itself faced with a quiet crisis this ...