Meshtastic has been experiencing a bit of a renaissance lately, as the off-grid, long-range radio text messaging protocol gains a...
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With more and more sensors being crammed into the consumer devices that many of us wear every day, the question...
Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers...
The classic design of a mechanical clock generally consists of a display, a way to store energy, a way to...
For as long as small, hidden radio transmitters have existed, people have wanted a technology to detect them. One of...
Many things about diamonds seem eternal, including the many engineering problems related to making them work as a silicon replacement...
recently put the finishing touches on an ambitious implementation of a simple D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) transceiver...
Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. In 1966, the main spacecraft ejected a 99-kg lander...
When didn’t want to copy Morse code, he decided to build a Pi Pico system to read it for him....
If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp of a...
While the average person would use a standard charger to top off their phone, is no average man. Instead, he...
Everyone here can think of a cloud-connected product that was killed because the company that made it stopped supporting it....
Hackers have been building their own basic oscilloscopes out of inexpensive MCUs and cheap LCD screens for some years now,...
Although we do often see projects that take antiques and replace some or all of their components with modern equipment,...
A quiet shift over the last couple of decades in many places has been the disappearance of the traditional copper...
Over on YouTube has a Function Generator Build for Beginners. As beginner videos go this one is fairly comprehensive. shows...
In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them....
Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data...
Walkie-talkies are great fun, and ’s bbTalkie project takes the concept a step further by adding some extremely cool features...
When it comes to electromagnetic waves, humans can really only directly perceive a very small part of the overall spectrum,...
and of Lumafield recently visited with to share their battery quality report, which documents their findings after performing X-ray computed...
An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to...
Before the modern Internet existed, there were still plenty of ways of connecting with other computer users “online”, although many...
When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting proposition....
There’s little about building spacecraft that anyone would call simple. But there’s at least one element of designing a vehicle...
