Telescopes are great tools for observing the heavens, or even surrounding landscapes if you have the right vantage point. You...
Hackaday
Some hacks are so great that when you die you receive the rare honor of both an obituary in the...
If you want solar power, you usually have to make a choice. You can put a solar panel in a...
As with all aging bodies, clogged tubes form an increasing issue. So too with the 47-year old Voyager 1 spacecraft...
Once upon a time, typing “www” at the start of a URL was as automatic as breathing. And yet, these...
Although is explaining linear regression because it relates to machine learning, the post and, indeed, the topic have wide applications...
The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’s Z80-powered TRS-80 probably one of the...
Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage discharges being a major risk to buildings,...
Classic demos from the demoscene are all about showing off one’s technical prowess, with a common side order of a...
You normally think of ELINT — Electronic Intelligence — as something done in secret by shadowy three-letter agencies or the...
sent us this stunning multimeter she built as a gift for her mom. Dubbed the Mohmmeter — a playful nod...
had a problem. He had an Onkyo AV receiver that did a great job… until it didn’t. A DSP inside...
With vector network analyzers, the commercial offerings seem to come in two flavors: relatively inexpensive but limited capabilities, and full-featured...
Morse code can be daunting to learn when you’re new to the game, particularly if you need it to pass...
We’ve seen tons of projects lately using the ESP32-C3, and for good reason. The microcontroller has a lot to offer,...
When was the last time you saw a computer actually outlast your weekend trip – and then some? Enter the...
Sick of raiding old TVs and CRT monitors for flyback transformers to feed your high-voltage addiction? Never fear; if you’re...
There’s something cool about the visual design language used in the aviation world. You probably don’t get much exposure to...
Despite the best efforts of the RepRap community over the last twenty years, self-replicating 3D printers have remained a stubbornly...
The ESP32 series of microprocessors with their cheap high-power cores and built-in wireless networking have brought us a wide variety...
One of the first things that an amateur radio operator is likely to do once receiving their license is grab...
If we asked you to name Alexander Graham Bell’s greatest invention, you would doubtless say “the telephone”; it’s probably the...
If you paid attention to advertising in 1980s Britain, you were never far from Economy 7. It was the magic...
Over on his YouTube channel explains biasing transistors with current sources in the 29th video of his Transistors Series. In...
The advantage of a radio-controlled clock that receives the time signal from WWVB is that you never have to set...
