Back in the old days the IBM-PC, like most of its contemporary computers, shipped with BASIC in ROM. Even after...
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There are some classic fonts which appeared in one place and became almost iconic, yet never made it into the...
When showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy. Nostalgic because...
Despite all the glamorous promises made about quantum computing, it’s hard to make the argument that today’s quantum computers hold...
Perhaps the most famous of all the software-defined radio (SDR) receivers is the RTL-SDR, a digital TV receiver on which...
One of the major limits of mass-produced batteries is the electrolyte. From lead-acid to lithium ion, there’s some temperature where...
It wasn’t that long ago that a science teacher would have told students that there was no evidence of planets...
FogCam is the oldest webcam feed that’s still up and running. Installed at San Francisco State University, it’s been slowly...
has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrifying. The...
has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of radio that...
Internet radios have been a thing in some form for the last quarter century, and the advent of cheap networked...
When you look into the night sky, you can’t help but wish to bring the outer worlds to your doorstep....
If you’re a collector of older TVs, you’re probably facing the problem in some form of having no transmissions to...
Considering how important it is for everything from navigation to keeping clocks in sync, satellite navigation systems are surprisingly vulnerable...
Every magnet has a north and a south pole, but which is which? Sometimes it matters. If a product one...
Packet radio is a particularly fun part of the ham radio hobby. Once upon a time, you might have squirted...
may have written up his observations a few years ago, but the lessons are just as relevant today as they...
For a while now we’ve followed the slow progression of affordable integrated circuit fabrication, and through the likes of Tiny...
PCB circuits are cool, but you know what is cooler? Terminator circuits that’s what! And what if the same material...
The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a maritime radio communications tool used to allow different vessels to identify each other...
Predictions of the future are often laughable when reviewed in the years for which they are made. For example, here...
A Linux handheld computer is, in theory, easy and inexpensive given the availability of single-board computers, but in practice the...
These days, it’s possible to cram a whole lot of radio functionality into a very compact device. A great example...
We’ve yet to find any definitive evidence that there’s biological life on present-day Mars, but to say it’s a dead...
When you think of wartime cryptography, you probably think of World War II and Enigma, although there were other famous...