After the fire and fury of liftoff, when a spacecraft is sailing silently through space, you could be forgiven for...
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So far in the “Field Guide” series, we’ve mainly looked at critical infrastructure systems that, while often blending into the...
Radio Shack, despite being gone for a number of years, is still in our cultural consciousness. But Tandy, the company...
Few electronic ICs can claim to be as famous as the 555 timer. Maybe part of the reason is that...
Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time...
Normally when a government extends a piece of copyright law we expect it to be in the favour of commercial...
Your design task, should you decide to accept it: given an input voltage, square it. Ok, that’s too hard since...
Well, here’s an interesting idea: the service loop. Ever heard of it? We haven’t! In the video, the presenter explains...
In the 1980s, there was a truly staggering amount of choice for a consumer looking to purchase a home computer....
Time series of O2 (blue) and VGADM (red). (Credit: Weijia Kuang, Science Advances, 2025) In an Earth-sized take on the...
We take it for granted that we almost always have cell service, no matter where you go around town. But...
AND gate implemented as diode-resistor logic. (Credit: Anthony Francis-Jones) The fun part about logic gates is that there are so...
When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of...
There’s a famous old story about fixing a generator for . He charged a lot of money for putting a...
The original ESP32 may be a little long in the tooth by now, but it remains a potent tool for...
It is a well-known reality of rescuing certain older electronic devices that, at some point, you’re likely going to have...
Predicting the future is a dangerous occupation. Few people can claim as much success as Arthur C. Clarke, the famous...
If you’ve worked on a project with small LEDs, you know the frustration of determining their polarity. This ingenious LED...
Since October 1978, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has operated its fleet of Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES)...
I often ask people: What’s the most important thing you need to have a successful fishing trip? I get a...
Communicating with space-based ham radio satellites might sound like it’s something that takes a lot of money, but in reality...
If you look at this solar generator from , you might think it’s somehow familiar. That’s because the design was...
White LED bulbs are commonplace in households by now, mostly due to their low power usage and high reliability. Crank...
Plenty of readers will be familiar with CRT televisions, not least because many of us use them with retrocomputers and...
Today in material science news we have a report from about a new supermaterial which is as strong as steel...
