These days, not only are oscilloscopes very common, but even a cheap instrument today would have been the envy of...
Hackaday
It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the...
Pretty much every modern car has some driver assistance feature, such as lane departure and blind-spot warnings, or adaptive cruise...
is no stranger to these pages, nor is his Museum is not Obsolete. The museum was recently gifted an enormous...
For some time now, Apple has developed a reputation for manufacturing computers and phones that are not particularly repairable or...
Occasionally, we find fun new electronic instruments in the wild and can’t resist sharing them with our readers. The item...
Your phone or laptop will give you access to the vast majority of news in the world, in languages you...
I recently got one of the new RP2040-based Bus Pirate 5 (BP5), a multi-purpose interface debugging and testing tool. Scanning...
Ideally, if you are going to transmit, you want a properly-tuned resonant antenna. But, sometimes, it isn’t practical. knew about...
bought cheap clip leads online and, wisely, decided to check them. We’ve had the same experience that he’s had. Sometimes,...
The Geochron World Time Indicator is a clock that doubles as a live map of where the sun is shining...
The double-slit experiment, first performed by in 1801 provided the first definitive proof of the dual wave-particle nature of photons....
Sometimes you need to create a satellite navigation tracking device that communicates via a low-power mesh network. was in just...
It’s been nearly four years since the Arecibo Telescope collapsed, an event the world got to witness in unprecedented detail...
As far as hobbies go, ham radio tends to be on the more expensive side. A dual-band mobile radio can...
Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now imagine that they are spread...
It’s been about a decade since Amazon began to fly its delivery drones, aiming to revolutionize the online shopping experience...
We’re suckers for good-looking old-school calculators, so this interesting numerical equation-solving calculator by caught our attention. Based around the ESP32-WROOM-32 module...
If you’re passionate about signal processing and retro tech, you’ll want to check out the Createc SC 01, a quirky...
We always thought the older console games looked way better back in the day on old CRTs than now on...
Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its...
Imagine you’ve got an FM transmitter located some place. Wouldn’t it be mighty convenient if you could control that transmitter...
It’s a staple of spy thriller movies, that the protagonist has some kind of electronic scanner with which he theatrically...
Despite the rise of ARM processors in more and more computers from embedded systems to daily driver PCs, the x86...
The Quansheng UV-K5 is a popular handheld radio. It’s useful out of the box, but also cherished for its modification...
