While most hams and hackers have at least heard of Heathkit, most people don’t know the strange origin story of...
Hackaday
While ham radio operators have been embracing digital mobile radio (DMR), the equipment is most often bought since — at...
GPS and similar satellite navigation systems revolutionized how you keep track of where you are and what time it is....
If you build electronics, you will eventually need a coil. If you spend any time winding one, you are almost...
A tornado can be an awe-inspiring sight, but it can also flip your car, trash your house, and otherwise injure...
Although there are plenty of methods for effectively imaging a 3D space, LiDAR is widely regarded as one of the...
You don’t see them as often as you used to, but it used to be common to see “electronics trainers”...
Bears! Are they scared of massive arcs that rip through the air, making a lot of noise in the process?...
The Vectrex console from the early 1980s holds a special place in retrocomputing lore thanks to its vector display —...
If you made something blink, and now it’s time for you to make something move, something like a point-to-a-satellite tracker...
Fake WiFi repeater with a cheap real one behind it. (Credit: Big Clive, YouTube) Over the years we have seen...
These days we don’t get too fussed about miniaturized electronics, not when you can put an entire processor and analog...
The sun is our planet’s source of natural illumination, and though we’ve mastered making artificial light sources, it remains extremely...
If you ever wished electrons would just behave, this one’s for you. A team from Tohoku, Osaka, and Manchester Universities...
We know how feels. In the 1980s we had a bewildering array of oddball gadgets and exciting new tech. But...
Surely by now you’ve at least heard of RTL-SDR — a software project that let’s cheap TV tuner dongles work...
Over the history of the Web, we have seen several major shifts in browsing software. If you’re old enough to...
When your homebrew Yagi antenna only sort-of works, or when your WiFi cantenna seems moody on rainy days, we can...
Using USB for powering devices is wonderful, as it frees us from a tangle of incompatible barrel & TRS connectors,...
Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different...
There’s something magical about the clunk of a heavy 1950s portable radio – the solid thunk of Bakelite, the warm...
Satellite imagery is in the news right now, but not all satellite constellations are the preserve of governments. Satellogic operates...
had a problem—namely, running low on the brass material typically used for making PCB stencils. Thankfully, a replacement material was...
We’ve all seen the ads. Some offer “free” solar panels. Others promise nearly free energy if you just purchase a...
S/Sgt Betty Vine-Stevens, Washington DC, May 1945. On 31 March of this year we had to bid farewell to Charlotte...
