Back in 1978, the world was a bit different. There was no Raspberry Pi, no Internet, and not even an ESP32 to build projects with. And rather than order electronics kits from Tindie or Adafruit, [D… ...

In the past, experts developed calculating machines that worked with three digits, a ternary system, that they hoped would allow for more efficient information processing. In principle, any number ...

Yes, you read it right. This is not an electric cheese grater, it really is a clock and one designed to confuse the hell out of any poor sucker who hasn't spent three days studying the manual. It ...

A new binary clock kit has been launched via Kickstarter in the form of the CD4017 Decade based on the 4000 series digital logic chips.

The use of binary numbers date back to ancient Egypt, but it was 17th-century philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who created the current binary number system used today.

In principle, any number can be represented by any number system, whether the latter be base 10, base 60, base 3 or base 2. The math works perfectly in each case. In the usual decimal system, the ...