Perovskites, named after a mineral discovered in the Urals in the 19th century, are compounds with the chemical formula ABX 3, where A and B are positively charged metal ions and X is a negatively ...

Making your own laptop can be a challenging project, but a doable one, especially given the large number of options available today for computing. Of course nothing says you need to use a modern ...

Explore the lightweight, minimalist world of single-board computers and their impact on my self-hosted experiments.

The Apple Macintosh personal computer is an iconic piece of tech history—with an emphasis on the word history. Compared to ...

The DshanPi-A1 is a new single-board computer with the same Rockchip RK3576 octa-core Arm-based chip as the Bit-Brick K1 Pro. But while the Bit-Brick board features two M.2 slots for NVMe storage, the ...

Although off-the-shelf breadboards are plentiful and cheap, they almost always seem to use the same basic design. Although you can clumsily reassemble most of them by removing the voltage rail ...

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...

We used to need SBCs for these projects; modern microcontrollers handle them more easily and inexpensively while being easier to maintain.