Every fully-functioning computer is made of the same basic components, and in this section, we’ll walk through the basic hardware you’ll need for your first build.

Ready for some hard core gadget creation? If you thought your dremel tool was handy before, in today's How-To we'll start building our own CNC machine. Aside from the geek factor, it can be handy ...

How to build a $100 productivity PC with a Raspberry Pi 4 This basic computer comes together fast and costs very little.

In 1936, the British mathematician Alan Turing came up with an idea for a universal computer. It was a simple device: an infinite strip of tape covered in zeros and ones, together with a machine that ...

This week we ran through the basic steps of building your first computer, but there’s a lot more info out there. Here’s some more reading that we reco ...

Instead of repurposing an older computer, help your kids build one of their own without spending too much.

When we last left our PC-building saga, we had assembled all of our computer components together in the case, powered it on, and had just gotten to the BIOS, or Basic Input-Output System, of the ...

Kano, the company behind a variety of build-it-yourself computer and coding kits, has unveiled a "laptop" today. A portable computer is probably more accurate. Whereas most laptops have a ...