OK, every operating system is a bit of a stretch — Windows Vista notably didn’t make the cut — but...
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Gravity batteries aren’t exactly a new idea. You can store energy by lifting something heavy, converting kinetic energy into potential...
With so many online messaging services to choose from it’s almost as though the daddy of them all, email, has...
A potentiometer is a simple electrical device that allows resistance to be varied at will. Most everyone in the electronics...
Although 1999 might still feel like yesterday for some of us, in the world of technology the intervening years are...
Zinc air batteries have been a familiar sight for decades in the world of photography, where they provided an environmentally...
In the long ago, pre-internet days when your clock project wasn’t an ESP32 getting its timing via NTP over WiFi,...
Detail of the lead connecting to the inner carbon-filled tube. (Credit: CuriousMarc) Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting...
We’ve all done it. We spy an old radio at a garage sale or resale shop. We know someone should...
Research reactors come in many forms and sizes, with the TRIGA class being commonly found at universities. The TRIGA reactor...
The Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the United States military in the 1970s, but it wasn’t long before...
A couple weeks back we brought you news of KernelUNO, a command line shell and very simple operating system for...
Recently we featured an unusual Commodore 8-bit computer on the bench of — a Commodore 64 in a PET case....
The Hindenburg disaster recently marked its 89th anniversary, and marked the event with a video that dispels many of the...
There are plenty of photos of the International Space Station out there on the Internet, but taking your own from...
Transistors in some circuit configurations work together and, frequently, need to be matched. This is so common that you can...
If you want to dabble in audio digital signal processing, you would probably think of grabbing a dedicated DSP chip....
Back when phones used to ship with chargers in the box, you’d get a plugpack that could charge one device....
If you mention the word bus, you might think of public transportation or, more likely for us, a way to...
Considering how integral it is to our modern way of life, you could be excused for thinking that the Global...
When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers. History...
VPNs, Virtual Private Networks, aren’t just a good idea to keep your data secure: for millions of people living under...
Perhaps at this point, getting NetBSD running on an obscure piece of hardware is a dog-bites-man story, and not worth...
Nuclear batteries are pretty simple devices that are conceptually rather similar to photovoltaic (PV) solar, just using the radiation from...
You’re probably not going to hang out around Chernobyl any time soon. Still, knowing the conditions there can both satisfy...
