[Max Breedon] found an old Apple IIe clone twenty years ago. He recently dug this Epson AP-200 out of the salvage heap and quickly discovered that the keyboard decoder chip was fried. The old chip was ...

Before there were smartphones, there were personal digital assistants like the Palm Pilot, Handspring Visor, and Compaq/HP iPAQ line of devices. And before those, there were really basic PDAs, like ...

When building your own homebrew computer, everything is a challenge. Ultimately, that’s kind of the point. If you didn’t want to really get your hands dirty with the nuts and bolts of the thing, you ...

There’s a long history of very good reasons for using an external keyboard instead of your MacBook’s, but it does put the laptop’s very useful trackpad out of reach. Instead of spending $149 on ...

Arduino enthusiast Evan Kale has been the inspiration for a new Arduino powered Bluetooth adapter which has been created by DastardlyLabs to allow those interested to make their USB keyboards ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former news writer for The Verge. There aren’t a lot of ultra-portable handheld PCs anymore, outside of the ...

Circuit Playground is an Arduino-like education development board from Adafruit, designed around an Atmel ATmega32u4 MPU – as used in the firm’s earlier Flora board. The round 51mm diameter board has ...