The latest DIY craze is a portable computer inspired by a 1984 sci-fi novel. I built one with a Raspberry Pi. Here's why and ...

My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, with all of 48 kilobytes of RAM, and as long as it lasted I obsessively typed in BASIC programs to see what I could get it to do. It was powerful (at least to a ...

This custom Wi-Fi router works off-grid with Starlink and can control my solar power station. Here's how I went about it.

The Virtual OS Museum is a huge retro-computing archive with more than 1,700 ready-to-run installations, covering everything ...

I'm not sure I've seen a more original premise for a city builder than "grow a frontier boomtown populated entirely by retrofuturistic steam-powered robots" in a long time. That makes SteamWorld Build ...

The University of Illinois Chicago was never meant to be an ordinary campus. And it’s held up its end of the bargain throughout its six decades of existence. Mayor Richard J. Daley leveled parts of ...

Editor’s Note: This article is purely satirical and fictitious. All attributions in this article are not genuine, and this story should be read in the context of pure entertainment only. Following ...

Assembler syntax is a touchy subject, with many a flamewar having raged over e.g. Intel vs AT&T style syntax. Thus when [Humberto Costa] recently acquired an MSX system for some fun retro-style ASM ...

China’s brain-computer interface industry is growing fast, and the newest company to emerge from the country is aiming to access the brain without the use of invasive implants. Gestala, newly founded ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Last week at CES, Lego introduced its new Smart Play system, with a tech-packed Smart Brick that can recognize and interact with sets and ...

For starters, this is no more than a hobby project: a Z80-based computer. By no means it aims to be a practical solution to anything, as any modern microcontroller can do much better with lower cost, ...