As Dorothy Parker once said, probably apocryphally, "I hate writing; I love having written." With deadlines looming, my morning to-do list can feel insurmountable. It's why I started using the ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

The 8051 was an 8-bit Harvard-architecture microcontroller first put out by Intel in 1980. They’ve since discontinued that line, but it lives on in the low-cost STC8 family of chips, which is ...