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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Tazer] built a small desktop-sized robotic arm, and it was more or less functional. However, he wanted to improve its ability to pick things up, and attaching a pneumatic gripper seemed like the ...