For as mysterious, fascinating, and beautiful as lightning is at a distance, it’s not exactly a peaceful phenomenon up close....
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If you’ve worked on a project with small LEDs, you know the frustration of determining their polarity. This ingenious LED...
White LED bulbs are commonplace in households by now, mostly due to their low power usage and high reliability. Crank...
reports that they have made the world’s longest range LED flashlight! While technically “handheld”, you’re gonna need both hands for...
The sun is our planet’s source of natural illumination, and though we’ve mastered making artificial light sources, it remains extremely...
LEDs are getting smaller and smaller, and the newest generations of indexable RGB LEDs are even fiddlier to use than...
A spectrometer is a pretty common lab instrument, useful for determining the absorbance of a sample across a spectrum of...
In 1983, a 14-year-old saw an LED clock in The Sharper Image store. At $250, it stayed in the store....
Generally speaking, the Hackaday Supercon badge will always have a place for SAO (rebranded as “Supercon add-ons”), and that makes...
What color are the street lights in your town? While an unfortunate few still suffer under one of the awful...
Do you know Morse code already? Or are you maybe trying to learn so you can be an old school...
Release Date: September 16, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
LED wristbands are now a common feature of large arena concerts and events, with a variety of capabilities and technical...
Hi I'm Phil VK2CPR, Christmas is nearly upon us, the WIA, notified by the German regulator through our regulatory committee, alerts...