To capture an instant on film or sensor with a camera, you usually need a fast shutter. But alternately a...
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In 1983, a 14-year-old saw an LED clock in The Sharper Image store. At $250, it stayed in the store....
The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) Question Pool Committee (QPC) has removed one Extra Class pool question and...
To commemorate the centenary of this historic contact made by Goyder and Bell, Mill Hill School will be hosting working...
Occasionally, we find fun new electronic instruments in the wild and can’t resist sharing them with our readers. The item...
I recently got one of the new RP2040-based Bus Pirate 5 (BP5), a multi-purpose interface debugging and testing tool. Scanning...
bought cheap clip leads online and, wisely, decided to check them. We’ve had the same experience that he’s had. Sometimes,...
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...
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...
via Facebook: The Hamvention team is pleased to introduce our 2025 Theme: Radio Independence. Radio Independence means a great deal...
It’s a staple of spy thriller movies, that the protagonist has some kind of electronic scanner with which he theatrically...
The Quansheng UV-K5 is a popular handheld radio. It’s useful out of the box, but also cherished for its modification...
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is...
Many readers will be familiar with the idea of a glitching attack, introducing electrical noise into a computer circuit in...
Bits of material levitating against gravity, a stream of water deflected by invisible means, sparks of light appearing out of...
In a world of digital monotony, the Avo DA14 digital multimeter, with its vintage J Nixie tube charm, is a...
In 1972, Martin Jue was a young entrepreneur who decided to use his electrical engineering expertise to start a new...
It’s 2024. You’ve probably got one or more pairs of wireless headphones around the house. prefers wired headphones with a...
Need a weekend project? wanted a GPS tracker that would send data out via LTE or the Iridium network. Ok,...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a major functional component of the modern Internet. We rely on it for just...
Space is a challenging environment for semiconductors, but researchers have shown that a specific type of memristor (the hafnium oxide...
Ever want a seriously powerful PCB for charging a Li-Ion pack? Whatever you want it for, has got it —...
