Among the many forgotten might-have-beens of the games console world, the Atari Jaguar occupies a special place. It was the...
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For some reason there’s heated debate around the topic of whether high current carrying wiring ought to use crimped or...
We’re all used to satellite navigation systems such as GPS or GLONASS, sheer magic in which the combination of a...
Last September, Denmark was gripped by a spate of drone sightings near airports. It’s familiar territory for Hackaday, as we...
This may say more about us than the current state of the telephone network, but unless your Grandma is still...
Sometimes, it’s hard to stop picking up your phone every few minutes to check on notifications and scroll endlessly through...
RC planes are a lot of fun, and the bigger the better! has built the world’s biggest RC A380. At...
These days, a lot of embedded projects feature some sort of screen, and a screen often creates a desire for...
YouTube streaming typically involves a camera with an HDMI output, a USB3 HDMI digitiser, and a suitably beefy PC to...
A loudspeaker is a vital component of every device that plays sound, but while its operation is simple, it’s a...
The smart TV is a fixture in most houses, variously an entertainment portal, corporate data gathering tool, or sometimes an...
An old-style PC BIOS served the function of a bootloader in loading the operating system kernel, and of an API...
There are plenty of radios you can buy that pick up MW and SW bands if that’s what you’re into....
Typically, when you’re sitting on a plane on the tarmac, you switch your phone to flight mode while you’re sitting...
has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form...
The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded. In September 1859, auroras were visible as close to...
Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast...
How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do...
Although the basic principle of radio direction finding is easy to understand (measure the phase difference between different antennas, then...
Billions of people use GPS on a daily basis, along with the various other satellite navigation systems available today. But...
As announced by on Bluesky, next month the much loved Rpilocator.com website will cease displaying the stock status and pricing...
Fluoroscopy is probably the best-known method of X-ray imaging: an X-ray beam passes through the subject to be imaged, and...
An old algebra teacher used to say, “You have to take what you know and use it to get what...
What counts as portable is somewhat a matter of opinion, especially over the years. has a portable spy radio of...
There’s not much more nostalgic for many than good ole’ Jimmy Neutron. This was true for , who saw the...
