M y adventures of building a smart home on a shoestring budget are taking an interesting turn. It turns out that I don’t need ...

I began replacing the devices around my home, one by one, with all different kinds of open hardware, rather than the ...

Using Bluetooth on a desktop computer is now such a seamless process; it’s something built-in and just works. Behind that ubiquity is a protocol layer called HCI, or Host Controller Interface, a set ...

Smartphones may be pocket-sized computers that can do thousands of different things… but sometimes that’s as much a weakness as it is a strength. I can’t count the number of times I pulled my phone ...