It is interesting to see the wide coverage of a police investigation looking to harvest data from the Amazon Echo, the always-listening home automation device you may know as Alexa. A murder invest…

I recently opened the mailbox to find a little device about the size of White Castle burger. It was an “Analog Discovery 2” from Digilent. It is hard to categorize exactly what it is. O…

Kate Reed has a vision for elevating the less talked about parts of ourselves, and of society. Through her art, she wants people to think about a part of themselves that makes them feel invisible, and...

Fast-forward to the end of the talk, and you'll hear someone in the audience ask [Ray] "Are there any Bluetooth locks that you can recommend?" and he gets to answer "nope, not really." (If this counts...

Since the 1980s, MIDI has been a great way to send data between electronic musical instruments. Beginning as a modified serial interface running through optoisolaters and DIN sockets, these days, your...

If you had to explain why you use one mobile messaging service over another to your grandmother, would you be able to? Does she even care about forward secrecy or the difference between a private and ...

Here’s a retro-electronic rehab with a twist. Normally we’d expect a jukebox Raspberry Pi project to replace the obsolete electromechanical guts with streamed music, but an intact jukeb…

Usually, you think of solid state storage as faster than a rotating hard drive. However, in the case of the Raspberry Pi, the solid state “disk drive” is a memory card that uses a seria…

Every December and May the senior design projects from engineering schools start to roll in. Since the students aren't yet encumbered with real-world detractors (like management) the projects are ofte...

Whether you're an engineer, a maker, a hacker or a baker, at some point you'll want to share your work with other people. Perhaps it's a meeting at work to discuss process improvements, or a talk at ...

Trolling eBay for parts can be bad for your wallet and your parts bin. Yes, it's nice to be well stocked, but eventually you get to critical mass and things start to take on a life of their own.

Th...

Have you ever wired up a piece of test equipment to a circuit or piece of equipment on your bench, only to have the dreaded magic smoke emerge when you apply power? [Steaky] did, and unfortunately for...

Robots are the 'it' thing right now, computer vision is a hot topic, and microcontrollers have never been faster. These facts lead inexorably to the OpenMV, an embedded computer vision module that bil...

VR is going to be the next big thing in five to seven years, and with that comes the problem of what the controllers will look like. The Vive and PS Move are probably close to what the first succes…

It's a sign of the times: the first day of the 33rd Chaos Communications Congress (33C3) included two talks related to assuring that your own computer wasn't being turned against you. The two talks ar...

Sometimes along comes a tech story that diverges from our usual hardware subject matter yet which just begs to be shared with you because we think you will find it interesting and entertaining. You…

The Nintendo Classic Mini took the world by storm this year -- finally, an NES in a cute, tiny package that isn't 3D printed and running off a Raspberry Pi! It's resoundingly popular and the nostalg...

DOOM, is there anything it won’t run on? Yes. Your front lawn cannot currently play DOOM. Pretty much everything else can though. It’s a testament to the game’s impact on society …

It's been about a year and a half since the Batteroo, formally known as Batteriser, was announced as a crowdfunding project. The premise is a small sleeve that goes around AA and AAA batteries, boosti...

Soon, the ball will drop in Times Square, someone will realize you can turn '2018' into a pair of novelty sunglasses, and the forgotten mumbled lyrics of Auld Lang Syne will echo through New Year's ...