When it comes to hacking niches, breathing new life into vintage devices is always an exciting challenge. ’s recent project...
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These days, anything with copper in it is expensive. If you doubt that, a walk into any Home Depot electrical...
Sometimes it’s the simplest hacks that make the biggest impact. Take these DIY magnetic PCB vises for example. Sure, you...
Join us on Wednesday, January 15 at noon Pacific for the Raspberry Pi Hack Chat with Eben Upton! The Hack...
Full disclosure: ham radio isn’t for everyone, and there are many different facets to it. What appeals to one person...
The OTC Station 29.8 meter dish at Carnarvon, Australia, in need of a bit of paint. (Credit: ABC News Australia)...
has a video in which a wide variety of AA cells are analyzed and compared in terms of capacity, internal...
In the quest for an accurate frequency standard there are many options depending on your budget, but one of the...
Modern remote control (RC) radios are capable of incredible range, but they’re still only made for line-of-sight use. What if...
How do you know that your patch cables are good? For simple jumper wires, a multimeter is about all you...
Are your jellybeans getting stale? thinks so, and his guide to choosing op-amps makes a good case for rethinking what...
There are many ways to build a radio receiver, but most have a few things in common, such as oscillators,...
There’s a paradox in amateur radio: after all the time and effort spent getting a license and all the expense...
You know how you can fall down a rabbit hole when you start on a project? and were looking at...
The miniature Christmas village is a tradition in many families — a tiny idyllic world filled happy people, shops, and...
A spectrometer is a pretty common lab instrument, useful for determining the absorbance of a sample across a spectrum of...
It’s a fair bet that most of us have a ton of wireless doo-dads around the house, from garage door...
If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned...
Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to , yes you can. But should you? Well,...
Ham radio enthusiasts, people looking to borrow their neighbors’ WiFi, and those interested in decoding signals from things like weather...
had an interesting problem to solve—his girlfriend often requested Diet Coke, but yelling for one across the apartment was frustrating...
Researchers have been testing a new type of lithium ion battery that uses single-crystal electrodes. Over several years, they’ve found...
Who wouldn’t want to have a scanning electron microscope (SEM)? If you’re the person behind the ProjectsInFlight channel on YouTube, you...
The shape of an antenna can make a big difference in its performance. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics...
built a Pi Pico logic analyzer designed by using the original design. But he recently had a chance to test...
