Hackers have been building their own basic oscilloscopes out of inexpensive MCUs and cheap LCD screens for some years now, but microcontrollers have recently become fast enough to actually make such ...

With the powerful off-the-shelf hardware available to us common hardware hobbyist folk, how hard can it be to make a smartphone from scratch? Hence [V Electronics]’s Spirit smartphone project, with ...

Part of the reason that Raspberry Pi’s single-board computers have been popular with hobbyists, educators, and others is that they’re cheap. The original Raspberry Pi computer sold for $35 when it ...