Were it not for the thin sheath of water and carbon-based life covering it, our home planet would perhaps be...
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Throughout history, people have devised ways to send information across long distances. For centuries we relied on smoke signals, semaphores,...
Perhaps the second most famous law in electronics after Ohm’s law is Moore’s law: the number of transistors that can be...
If you are under a certain age, you might not know the initialism VTVM. It stands for vacuum tube voltmeter....
To say the Heathkit name is well known among Hackaday readers would be something of an understatement. Their legendary kits...
If you work on old equipment, you know that there’s always that tense moment when you first plug it in...
In the 125 years since Marconi made his first radio transmissions, the spectrum has been divvied up into ranges and...
We always get excited when we buy a new tablet. But after a few months, it usually winds up at...
If you or someone you know is diabetic, it is a good bet that a glucose meter is a regular...
When the cool kids are showing off their SDRs it’s easy to forget that a radio receiver can be very...
Once launched, most spacecraft are out of reach of any upgrades or repairs. Mission critical problems must be solved with...
It is an age-old problem. You have a 2.5 GHz source and you want it at 5 GHz. You need...
Like a lot of hams, wanted an “on the air” sign. These signs often connect to a PTT switch or...
via Blog – Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2021/10/20/refining-the-greatest-joystick-of-the-1980s/
With the push to having most of a radio receiver as part of a PC, it might seem odd to...
Probably the most interesting facets of amateur radio in 2021 lie in the realm of digital modes. Using the limitless...
It is with sadness that we note the passing of the British writer, engineer, home computer pioneer, and entrepreneur, Sir...
Our Hackaday team is spread across the world, but remains in easy contact through the magic of the Internet. A...
Lightning is a powerful and seemingly mysterious force of nature, capable of releasing huge amounts of energy over relatively short...
We like regenerative receivers. They perform well and they are dead simple to create. Example? modified a few existing designs...
A substantial part of gaining and holding an amateur radio license relates to the prevention of radio interference. In days...
Hopefully by now most of us know better than to rent a modem from an internet service provider. Buying your...
Had the pandemic not upended many of this summer’s fun and games, many of my friends would have made a...
We think of radio navigation and direction finding as something fairly modern. However, it might surprise you that direction finding...
Most of us don’t spend that much time thinking about lightning. Every now and then we hear some miraculous news...
