There were a plethora of tiny, local ISPs in the days of dial-up internet. Along with the big providers, many...
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With ever increasing sizes of various programs (video games being notorious for this), the question of size optimization comes up...
The humble NE555 has been around for over five decades now, and while during that time we’ve seen a succession...
Ionizing radiation damage from electrons, protons and gamma rays will over time damage a CMOS circuit, through e.g. degrading the...
Although GNSS systems like GPS have made pin-pointing locations on Earth’s sphere-approximating surface significantly easier and more precise, it’s always...
It’s one thing to learn about transmission lines in theory, and quite another to watch a voltage pulse bounce off...
APRs is an amateur radio protocol allowing the exchange of short packets of data. It’s commonly used to transmit a...
Supercapacitors rely mostly on double-layer capacitance to bridge the divide between chemical batteries and traditional capacitors, but they come with...
The Linux world is currently seeing an explosion in new users, thanks in large part to Microsoft turning its Windows...
A switch is simple: connect two pieces of metal together and bam! Except, it’s not that simple at high currents....
Although the RTL-SDR is cheap, accessible, and capable enough for many projects, it does have some important limitations. In particular,...
Sometimes you wanna test a piece of USB hardware, but you don’t just want to plug it into a random...
In the early days of the Internet, having a high-speed IP connection in your home or even a small business...
Although it dates back to the early days of the Marconi Company in the 1920s, the Franklin oscillator has remained...
Stream decks are pretty useful in all kinds of contexts, but commercial models can feel a bit pricy for what...
You probably don’t spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anymore, since it’s thoroughly been superseded many...
We’re all used to it by now, but I’d just like to reflect on how insanely power-packed lithium ion batteries...
We’re used to electronic parts of the same type staying predictably the same, sometimes over many years. An early Z80...
The final second prototype flying. (Credit: Luke Maximo Bell, YouTube) The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars...
Sometimes you really need to know what the weather is doing, but you don’t want to look at your phone....
Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding...
Did you ever wonder how the mechanical voltage regulator — that big black box wired up to the generator on...
It’s Pi Day, and while we know that many of you celebrate privately, those that take a moment to put...
In the mid 1970s there were a spate of movies depicting the romance and lifestyle of truck drivers in the...
It’s a bit of an understatement that at release Windows Vista rather fell flat. Much of the problem was due...
