Even with more and more devices making the leap to USB-C, the Arduino Uno still proudly sports a comparatively ancient Type-B port. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that many Hackaday readers only keep ...

Unlike Texas Instruments, whose graphing calculators have famously not made technological improvements in decades despite ...

C, and USB Type-B ports all provide data transfers and power delivery, though the latter is much less common on modern ...

The HP TouchPad holds a rather strange place in the history of modern tablet computers. First launched in 2011 as a $500 tablet running webOS 3.0 software, the tablet was canceled just a few months ...

If you've ever wondered why so many gadgets made before the mid-2010s used the slim, tapered Micro-USB connector, and why almost everything today has moved to the oval-shaped USB-C port, the answer ...

A similar issue plagues Microsoft's Xbox One controllers - the micro USB port on the controller is only held in place by solder. If someone tries to use the controller as a wired peripheral all the ...