Everyone loves a full-wave bridge rectifier, but there’s no denying that they aren’t 100% efficient due to the diode voltage...
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When we see an extremely DIY project, you always get someone who jokes “well, you didn’t collect sand and grow...
The legendary 6502 microprocessor recently turned 50 years old, and to celebrate this venerable chip which brought affordable computing and...
For certain situations, older hardware is preferred or even needed to accomplish a task. This is common in industrial applications...
Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart...
What color do you like your microcontroller boards? Blue? Red? Maybe white or black? Sadly, all of those are about...
USB-C has enabled a lot of great things, most notably removing the no less than three attempts to plug in...
There’s a famous old story about fixing a generator for . He charged a lot of money for putting a...
It is a well-known reality of rescuing certain older electronic devices that, at some point, you’re likely going to have...
If you talk about Starlink, you are usually talking about the satellites that orbit the Earth carrying data to and...
With vector network analyzers, the commercial offerings seem to come in two flavors: relatively inexpensive but limited capabilities, and full-featured...
had a problem—namely, running low on the brass material typically used for making PCB stencils. Thankfully, a replacement material was...
Somewhere between the period of 1999 and 2007 a plague swept through the world, devastating lives and businesses. Identified by...
LEDs are getting smaller and smaller, and the newest generations of indexable RGB LEDs are even fiddlier to use than...
built one of those cheap automatic antenna tuners you see everywhere — this one scaled up to 350 watt capability....
FR4 is FR4, right? For a lot of PCB designs, the answer is yes — the particular characteristics of the...
In the decade or more since small inexpensive Linux-capable single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi came to the...
Ever been at a party and landed in a heated argument about exactly where the International Space Station (ISS) is...
Sometimes it’s the simplest hacks that make the biggest impact. Take these DIY magnetic PCB vises for example. Sure, you...
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...
