Phased-array radars are great for all sorts of things, whether you’re doing advanced radio research or piloting a fifth-generation combat...
Hackaday
There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking....
NASA is going back to the Moon! We’ll follow the crew of Artemis II every step of the way. Liftoff!...
After the previous attempt of running a PC off AA cells got a lot of comments, decided to do the...
Who among us does not have a plethora of mains-powered devices on their workbench, and a consequent mess of power...
Have you ever wanted to see the computers behind the first (and for now only) man-made objects to leave the...
There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general...
With the RAM and storage crisis hitting personal computing very hard – along with new software increasingly suffering the effects...
Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer recreated a...
Not so long ago, most computer users didn’t own their own machines. Instead, they shared time on mainframes or servers,...
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is tasked with regulating both wired and wireless communications, which also includes a national...
They say you should never throw out old clothes because they will come back in style one day. Maybe they...
For a late-1990s engineer with good soldering skills, many a free pint of beer could be earned by installing modchips...
It’s no secret that Google really doesn’t like it that people are installing Android applications from any other source than...
The timer mechanism of the Vend-o-Vision. (Credit: SpaceTime Junction, YouTube) There was a time before portable TVs and personal media...
For many decades humankind has entertained the notion that we can maybe tweak the Earth’s atmosphere or biosphere in such...
While you may have never heard of TAT-8, there is a good chance you sent some data through it. TAT-8...
It’s quite the understatement to say that at this point in time we don’t quite understand how even the tiniest...
There are some clocks, mostly in or around international airports, which have multiple faces to show the time at various...
When building a radio transmitter, unless it’s a very small one indeed, there’s a need for an amplifier before the...
It seems that for as long as there have been readily available 3D printers, there have been moral panics about...
One thing some people hate about voice control is that you need to have a process always running, listening for...
The USB-C port has become a defacto connectivity standard for modern devices, largely supplanting the ugly mess of barrel jacks...
Every ham radio shack needs a clock; ideally one with operator-friendly features like multiple time zones and more. found that...
Analog TV may have shuffled off its mortal coil years ago, but there are still plenty of old CRT TV...
