Oh, Radio Shack. What a beautiful place you once were, a commercial haven for those seeking RC cars, resistors, and...
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Back in the day, an FM bug was a handy way to make someone’s annoying radio go away, particularly if...
wrote in with his newest clock build — and he did warn us that it was minimalist and maybe less...
Heating things up is one of the biggest sources of cost and emissions for many industrial processes we take for...
Interested in playing with ultra-wideband (UWB)? recently put together a fairly comprehensive getting started guide featuring the AI Thinker BU03...
Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart...
We’re all used to emulating older computers here, and we’ve seen plenty of projects that take a cheap microcontroller and...
The Diné (aka Navajo) people have been using their weaving as trade goods at least since European contact, and probably...
While many in the industry were at first skeptical of NASA’s goal to put resupply flights to the International Space...
When you mention Teletext or Videotex, you probably think of the 1970s British system, the well-known system in France, or...
It’s hard to argue with nostalgia, but you can toss a bucket of cold facts over it. In the case...
For nearly 90 years, American Science and Surplus has been shipping out weird and wonderful stuff to customers far and...
The fifth generation mobile communications protocol (5G) is perhaps the most complicated wireless protocol ever made. Featuring wildly fast download...
The Allen key turns 115 this year. It’s strange to believe that in all that time, no one has come...
The International Space Station has been in orbit around the Earth, at least in some form, since November of 1998...
A few days ago we brought you word that Google was looking to crack down on “sideloaded” Android applications. That...
When is a Raspberry Pi not a Raspberry Pi? Perhaps when it’s a Pi Zero-shaped board with an RP3A0 SoC...
An adult human can produce about 100 Wh of mechanical power whilst cycling, which is a not inconsiderable amount if...
Aside from a few stand-out programs — looking at you, Star Trek — by the late 1960s, TV had already...
Open any consumer electronics catalog from around the 1980s to the early 2000s and you are overwhelmed by a smörgåsbord...
was experimenting with GNU Radio and an RTL-SDR dongle. He created an SSB receiver and, lucky for us, he documented...
Data centers and the electrification of devices that previously ran on fossil fuels is driving increased demand for electricity around...
At this point, atomic clocks are old news. They’ve been quietly keeping our world on schedule for decades now, and...
People have long been interested in very low frequency (VLF) radio signals. But it used to be you pretty much...
As NASA’s Artemis program trundles onwards at the blazing pace of a disused and very rusty crawler-transporter, the next mission...
