Sometimes it’s the simplest hacks that make the biggest impact. Take these DIY magnetic PCB vises for example. Sure, you...
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In the quest for an accurate frequency standard there are many options depending on your budget, but one of the...
Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to , yes you can. But should you? Well,...
built a Pi Pico logic analyzer designed by using the original design. But he recently had a chance to test...
Each Christmas, , , and (meanwhile going by ‘the Janky Jingle Crew’)—set themselves the challenge of outdoing their previous creations....
We will admit it. If we found a 386 motherboard as badly corroded as the one did, we would trash...
If you’re planning on working satellites or doing any sort of RF work where the signal lives down in the...
For those of us devoted to keeping an older vehicle on the road, the struggle is real. We know that...
Sometimes you need to create a satellite navigation tracking device that communicates via a low-power mesh network. was in just...
We’ve often heard you should do everything twice. The first time is to learn what you need to do, and...
Some time ago, while designing the PCB for the Sony Vaio replacement motherboard, I went on a quest to find...
If you need an amplifier, has some advice. Don’t design your own; grab cheap and tiny RF amplifier modules and...
The dulcet tones of a modem handshake may be a thing of the distant past for most of us, but...
When we think of assembling a PCB, we’re almost always thinking about solder. Whether in paste form or on the...
A lot of hams like to carry a VHF radio. Of course, nearly everyone wants to carry a phone. Now,...
A word of warning before watching this very cool video on soldering: it may make you greatly desire what appears...
The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that probably seems rather alien to...
Battery management is a tedious but necessary problem that becomes more of a hassle with lithium-ion technology. As we’re all...
The proliferation of microcontrollers has made it easier than ever to add some smarts to a project, but sometimes there...
Printed circuit boards are typically only something you’d find in a digital watch. However, as demonstrates, you can put them...
wanted to clone some model car raceway track and realised that by scanning the profile section of the track with...
wanted an Everything Presence Lite kite but found it was always out of stock. Therefore, he decided to create his...
When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple I or the TRS-80. But...
Remember when dead batteries were something you’d just toss in the trash? Those days are long gone, thankfully, and rechargeable...
There are many forms of human interface device beyond the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse, but when it comes to fine-tuning...