On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of RAM and CPU speed, on par with a decent laptop computer. If so, why not just add on a ...

To be honest I think that learning to program Android would be much more useful and fun. Only true geeks think programming a tiny head- and handless computer is fun just because it's cheap. Teaching ...

In the old days of computing, users often bought kits and put together their own machines. Part of the fun of owning a computer was figuring out how everything worked together. You still can build ...