Sound cards were essential in high-end PC builds but have been replaced by better onboard audio options now. The initial success of sound cards was due to poor motherboard audio quality and ...

Before the AdLib sound card, sound on PCs was in a terrible shape. Since the dawn of IBM, all PCs included a speaker, but this PC speaker was only capable of sounding one note at a time.

A solution for some sensors comes courtesy of [Ruslan Nagimov], who shows us how the PC sound card can become a measurement interface. The idea is that simple resistive or capacitive sensors can ...