Volos Projects recently showcased an easy-to-reproduce, inexpensive DIY ESP32-S3 Internet radio based on a Waveshare ESP32-S3-LCD-1.54 development board ...

Build for monitoring, buy for safety.

It's a solved problem, but I actually prefer a simple web UI.

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980. They’ve since discontinued that line, but it lives on in the low-cost STC8 family of chips, which is ...

Multicore processing boosts performance and energy efficiency in many coding situations. Bare-metal algorithms further ...

It’s always nice to simulate a project before soldering a board together. Tools like QUCS run locally and work quite well for ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Budding geniuses deserve gifts that match their geeky interests. Whether it's robotics or chemistry or the mechanics of remote-control cars, the educational toy market is chock full of kits that help ...