The ESP32 family are the microcontrollers which just keep on giving, as new versions keep them up-to-date and plenty of hackers come up with new things for them. A popular device is a general purpose ...

When Bill Buxton worked at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in the early 1990s, he examined the classic children’s homemade telephones: two cups connected by a taut string. He wondered why that same ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Just add a screen and you’ve got yourself a PC Just add a screen and you’ve got yourself a PC is a reporter with ...

Last month Raspberry announced a major Christmas gift for its users: the Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard computer and the Raspberry Pi Monitor. Not only were they available, but they could be purchased for ...

Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

Raspberry Pi has just released its new computer-in-a-keyboard, the Raspberry Pi 500, the successor to the Raspberry Pi 400. It shares most of the same internal components as the Raspberry Pi 5, but ...

Apple is exploring the possibility of integrating a fully functioning Mac within a keyboard, reminiscent of home computers of the 80s, such as the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Image credit: ...

One could make a mini-itx computer, connect a battery to it like a UPS perhaps the size of a laptop battery.. But then for screen and keyboard, how hard would it be to connect a laptop to the mini-itx ...

The new Raspberry Pi 500+ is a computer that looks like a keyboard. That’s because, like the Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi 400, it’s basically a fully functional computer stuffed inside the ...

Almost as old as the computer keyboard is the keyboard shortcut, which can transform several clicks of the mouse into a simple combination of keys. Using these shortcuts can save a lot of time and ...