Researchers at MIT have unexpectedly stumbled upon a way to 3D print active electronics – meaning transistors and components for...
Makers
It is common these days to have a soldering iron where you can set the temperature using some sort of...
The proliferation of microcontrollers has made it easier than ever to add some smarts to a project, but sometimes there...
wanted to clone some model car raceway track and realised that by scanning the profile section of the track with...
These days, it’s super-easy to jump onto the World Wide Web to find purported replacement parts using nothing but the...
How hard is it to make a fully standalone SDR? shows you how to take a breadboard, a PI Pico,...
Hurricanes can cause widespread destruction, so early forecasting of their strength is important to protect people and their homes. The...
There’s an old saying in the amateur radio community that when it comes to antennas all you need is a...
It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when you need them. Back in...
Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple receiver, you could listen to...
Among the 8-bit home micro boom from the late 1970s through early 1980s, the introduction to computing for many wasn’t...
Unless you hold a First Degree RF Wizard rating, chances are good that coax stubs seem a bit baffling to...
had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the 1960s using germanium and silicon transistors....
For a long time, a Morse code proficiency was required to obtain an amateur radio license in many jurisdictions around...
You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you might think back to those...
Navigating aircraft today isn’t like the old days. No more arrows painted on a barn roof or rotating airway beacons....
had a project in mind: replacing a common vacuum tube with a solid-state equivalent. The tube in question was an EABC80...
If amateur radio has a problem, it’s that shaking off an image of being the exclusive preserve of old men...
The good old fashioned game of football used to be a simple affair. Two teams of eleven, plus a few...
Reverse-engineered schematics are de rigeur around these parts, largely because they’re often the key to very cool hardware hacks. We don’t get...
We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it was just the flashiest of...
We’ve all been there. You are on a flight, there’s WiFi, but you hate to pay the few bucks just...
When we first spotted the article about a one-transistor amateur radio transceiver, we were sure it was a misprint. We’ve seen...
It’s said that “Golf is a good walk spoiled,” so is attaching an amateur radio to a bike a formula for spoiling...
Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system have received the lion’s share...
