Inspired by the BK Butler Tube Driver, a favourite of Joe Satriani and Eric Johnson's, Venus has a heap of tone-shaping ...

If you don't think B batteries exist, you're not alone. The truth is, they're real, but just a lot less common than other ...

A vacuum tube is just that: a glass tube surrounding a vacuum (an area from which all gases have been removed). What makes it interesting is that when electrical contacts are put on the ends ...

The Vacuum tube is a part of the pre-amp of the headphones, and it warms up the signal before it gets sent to your ears. It’s ...

We have occasionally featured vacuum tube computers here at Hackaday and we’ve brought you many single board computers, but until now it’s probable we haven’t brought you a machine that ...

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) is looking to completely redesign the way cargo transport is carried out in ...

Enormous dimensions, complicated military calculations, and thousands of vacuum tubes—this was the early supercomputer.

If transistors could replace vacuum tubes in the phone system, then they certainly could replace them in computers too. The army, with its need for ever-faster and more efficient calculations ...

Vintage meets contemporary in this DAW-controllable hybrid synth that blends digital oscillators with a tube-based audio path ...

[Usagi Electric] is breathtakingly close to having his Bendix G15 vacuum tube computer up and running. This week he is joined by a new friend, [Lloyd] who is restoring a G15 as well. [Lloyd] used ...