I'm converting a classic Mini to electric and as a way to save a few thousand bucks, I'm hoping to build a box that can adapt the Nissan Leaf parts to a "normal" system of 12v switches. Specifically ...

The processor in the first X360 (like the original, an "all round" performer) is a three core, six thread, 3.2Ghz PowerPC compatible derived mainly from the G5 processor. What's important about that ...

Today at the Open Hardware Summit at MIT, OSHWA, the Open Source Hardware Association has announced a huge revision to the Open Hardware certification process. The goal here is to design a better ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...

Atmel’s XMEGA series of microcontrollers are neat little pieces of hardware; with a very fast clock, a ton of IO, USB, and up to 8 UART ports, these neat little chips serve as a nice bridge between ...

YouTuber Marc Verdiell, a.k.a. CuriousMarc, has turned a 1930s teletype machine into a Linux terminal. To do that, he had to make circuitry and programming that translates five-bit Baudot code into ...