If you haven’t gone laptop shopping recently, you’re in for a big shock when you do. Recent consumer laptops are thin, powerful, surprisingly inexpensive, and Apple’s latest MacBook Pros even have a ...

When we think of performance, we often think of noise. Loud, vibrating machines that churn out ultra-high framerates and eye-popping visuals. Building a powerful PC doesn’t mean you have to live with ...

Sometimes it starts with a 555 timer and an op-amp. Other times with a small microcontroller. But the timing’s not so great and needs a dedicated timing crystal circuit. And maybe some more memory, ...