WiFi is an excellent protocol, but it certainly has its weaknesses. Its range in even a normal home is relatively...
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George Orwell might’ve predicted the surveillance state, but it’s still surprising how many entities took 1984 as a how-to manual...
As you might expect, the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo has a fascination with radio signals from space. While...
At 5:20 PM on November 9, 1965, the Tuesday rush hour was in full bloom outside the studios of WABC...
Looking at gasoline prices today, it’s hard to believe that there was a time when 75 cents a gallon seemed...
Finding older versions of particular software can be a real chore, all too often only made possible by the sheer...
You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What...
The older Raspberry Pi boards have had a long life, serving faithfully since 2012. Frankly, their continued support is a...
When we see an extremely DIY project, you always get someone who jokes “well, you didn’t collect sand and grow...
Radio experimenters often need a variable capacitor to tune their circuits, as the saying goes, for maximum smoke. In decades...
When you are capturing audio from a speaker, you are rarely capturing the actual direct output of such a system....
For the most part, the Radio Apocalypse series has focused on the radio systems developed during the early days of...
Although to many of us the progression from ‘standard definition’ TV and various levels of high-definition at 720p or better...
CRTs don’t last forever, and neither do the electronics that drive them. When you have a screen starting to go...
It is a common occurrence in old movies: Our hero checks in at a hotel in some exotic locale, and...
Unless you are over a certain age, you probably take it for granted that electronic gadgets you buy have some...
A laptop is one of the greatest tools at the disposal of a hacker. They come in all manner of...
Tang FPGA boards are affordable, and has been trying to get an x86 core running on one for a while....
Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one...
It’s been just over 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977 from Cape Canaveral, originally to...
For the past years people have been collecting disposable vapes primarily for their lithium-ion batteries, but as these disposable vapes...
Over on YouTube our hacker shows us how to make a simple MOSFET tester. This is a really neat, useful,...
There have been plenty of books and movies about how the Manhattan Project brought together scientists and engineers to create...
Here at Hackaday Central, we fancy that we know a little something about Linux. But if you’d tasked us to...
The legendary 6502 microprocessor recently turned 50 years old, and to celebrate this venerable chip which brought affordable computing and...
