For certain situations, older hardware is preferred or even needed to accomplish a task. This is common in industrial applications...
Hackaday
The Neon glow of a Nixie tube makes for an attractive clock, but that’s not enough neon for some people....
To connect the miniature world of integrated circuits like a CPU with the outside world, a number of physical connections...
Once upon a time, ham radio was all about CW and voice transmissions and little else. These days, the hobby...
Now that Commodore has arisen from the depths of obscurity like Cthulhu awoken from R’lyeh, the question on every shoggoth’s...
comes up with some unusual gear. In his latest teardown and repair video, he has a vintage 1943 Danish oscilloscope, ...
Bus Pirate is nearly a household name in the hardware hacking world. The first version came out way back in...
Fnirsi is one of those brands that seem to pop up more and more often, usually for portable oscilloscopes and...
Pointing at stars may seem easy on the surface—just mount a telescope to a tripod and you’re done, right? As...
If you are casually listening to the radio, you probably tune into a local station and with modern receivers and...
Even in the early days of the Cold War, it quickly became apparent that simply having hundreds or even thousands...
There are few computing collapses more spectacular than the downfall of Commodore, but its rise as a home computer powerhouse...
A multitool that weighs less than a penny? Yes, it exists. This video by shows his titanium flat-cut design tipping...
Although ham radio offers a wide array of bands to transmit on, not to mention plenty of modes to communicate...
When reported on NOAA’s statement that many of its polar birds were no longer recommended for use, he mentioned that...
Ever want to find your device on the map? Think we all do sometimes. The technology you’ll generally use for...
Neutrinos are exceedingly common in the Universe, with billions of them zipping around us throughout the day from a variety...
Oh, Radio Shack. What a beautiful place you once were, a commercial haven for those seeking RC cars, resistors, and...
Back in the day, an FM bug was a handy way to make someone’s annoying radio go away, particularly if...
wrote in with his newest clock build — and he did warn us that it was minimalist and maybe less...
Heating things up is one of the biggest sources of cost and emissions for many industrial processes we take for...
Interested in playing with ultra-wideband (UWB)? recently put together a fairly comprehensive getting started guide featuring the AI Thinker BU03...
Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart...
We’re all used to emulating older computers here, and we’ve seen plenty of projects that take a cheap microcontroller and...
The Diné (aka Navajo) people have been using their weaving as trade goods at least since European contact, and probably...
