It says a lot about me, I suppose, but when I was younger I thought a calculator-watch was possibly the coolest thing you could have on your wrist. Pro-electronics engineer David Jones obviously feels ...

Remember those Casio scientific calculator watches? Yeah, yeah . . . we got roughed up for wearing one too. Anyway, engineer David Jones is launching a DIY site for building one using ...

Good grief – where does the time go? For months and months (and months) I've been meaning to write an incredibly interesting paper on Binary Coded Decimal (BCD). The strange thing is that a lot of ...

If you like Nixie tubes and/or DIY calculators, checkout this interesting talk from the HP Handheld Conference in Orlando last month by [Eric Smith] from Brouhaha and [John Doran] from Time Fracture.

What if your calculator could do more than crunch numbers? Imagine a pocket-sized device that not only solves equations but also doubles as a retro gaming console, a basic computer, and a platform for ...

Do you, like me, recall playing with some of the first personal computers? Of course we had machine code and assembly language to work with, but the first “high-level” language of any note was some ...

Hoboken, NJ, September 19, 2005 – Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the publication of the new book, "The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math: Featuring the Virtual DIY ...

If you thought the original calculator watch was nerdy, get a load of this DIY gem from designer David Jones. According to his website, the “uWatch” is the “world’s most powerful programmable ...