There are two ways to deal with improving ham radio receivers, or — for that matter — any sort of...
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With high-altitude ballooning, you are at the mercy of the winds, which can move your payload hundreds of kilometers and...
When it comes to an engineering marvel like the James Webb Space Telescope, the technology involved is so specialized that...
The term “phased array” has been around for a long time, but in recent years we’ve heard more and more...
Sometimes you need to know the temperature of something from a ways away. That might be a smoker, a barbecue,...
As ferrite technology has progressed into a mastery of magnetic permeability, the size of inductors has gone down to the...
The average person’s perception of a ham radio operator, assuming they even know what that means, is more than likely...
The proliferation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology has been a godsend for RF hobbyists. SDR-based receivers and transmitters have gotten...
Before the days of MP3 players and smartphones, and even before portable CD players, those of us of a certain...
Embedded engineer has put together a compact LoRa satellite telemetry ground station that fits in your hand and can be built for...
When you think old school handheld games, you probably imagine something like Nintendo’s Game Boy line or the Sega Game...
When it comes to classic cars, the entertainment options can be limited. You’re often stuck with an old cassette deck...
, DL1DN, is an Amateur Radio enthusiast with a penchant for low-power (QRP) portable operations. Recently he was out and about,...
If you are a certain age, it is hard to wrap your head around the fact that an old radio...
Even though not every Hackaday reader is likely to be a radio enthusiast, it’s a fair guess that many of...
With music consumption having long ago moved to a streaming model in many parts of the world, it sometimes feels...
A metrology geek will go to extreme lengths to ensure that their measurements are the best, their instruments the most...
It’s fair to say that right now is probably the worst possible time you could choose to design a new...
Do you know what the IODC word in GPS data means? If so, great! If not, head over to see...
On astronomical telescopes of even middling power, a small “finderscope” is often mounted in parallel to the main optics to...
South Korea’s domestically developed KSLV-2 “Nuri” rocket successfully placed six payloads into low Earth orbit Tuesday, after lifting off from from Naro...
ARDC grant enables Bradley University students to develop an open-source, 915 MHz digital transceiver system. DAEMod-915 is a Bradley University...
It’s true that this TRS-80 Model 4P “luggable” was in better shape than many of the vintage machines that pass...
The tech news channels were recently abuzz with stories about strange signals coming back from Voyager 1. While the usual suspects jumped...
It was a melancholy Monday this week in the Big Apple as the last public payphone was uprooted from midtown Manhattan near...
