Powering external devices directly from a PC’s I/O ports has been a thing long before USB was even a twinkle in an engineer’s eye. Some of us may remember the all too common PS/2 pass-through leads ...

After a time with a multimeter and scope, the othewise-undocumented Cronos board for home-build cnc machines has revealed some of its secrets. Overall, it seems like a proper grown-up design with a ...

If you’re looking for a small, benchtop CNC machine for PCBs and light milling the ubiquitous Sherline CNC machine is a good choice. There’s a problem with it, though: normally, the Sherline CNC ...