We usually think of a hydraulic system as fully self-contained, with a hydraulic pump, tubing, and actuators filled with a...
Hackaday
wanted to see if a “common person” (in his words) could build an effective vertical ham radio antenna. If you...
Since their invention more than a century ago, crystal oscillators have been foundational to electronic design. They allow for precise...
The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project for electronics or radio enthusiasts...
As cheap microcontrollers have given us an impressive range of test equipment trinkets to play with, it’s easy to forget...
There’s an old joke that they want to send an exploratory mission to the sun, but to save money, they...
For those of us devoted to keeping an older vehicle on the road, the struggle is real. We know that...
Applying solder paste to a new custom PCB is always a little nerve-racking. One slip of the hand, and you...
If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in the ground facilities of a satellite TV operation, you could go banging...
SpaceX’s Starship is the most powerful launch system ever built, dwarfing even the mighty Saturn V both in terms of...
How do you collect a lot of data about the ionosphere? Well, you could use sounding rockets or specialized gear....
For serious high-voltage plasma, you need a serious transformer. from Plasma Channel is taking his projects to the next level,...
We’re not very far into the AI revolution at this point, but we’re far enough to know not to trust...
A thermal camera is a very handy tool to have, and wanted to try out the Thermal Master P2 for...
It’s easy to use electricity — solar-generated or otherwise — to desalinate water. However, traditional systems require a steady source...
knows that real diodes you can buy don’t work exactly like we say they do. That’s actually pretty common. We...
Imagine this. A young person comes to you wanting to get started in the electronic hobby. They ask what five...
Space and mystery always spark our curiosity, so when we stumbled upon the story of Skynet-1A, Britain’s first communication satellite...
If Apple has a reputation for anything other than decent hardware and excellent industrial design, it’s for selling its products...
Formerly known as Unidentified Flying Objects, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) is a category of observations that are exactly what the...
Sometimes, it’s nice to know how windy it is outside. Knowing the direction of the wind can be a plus,...
Everyone knows those small bags of forbidden “Do not eat” candy that come with fresh rolls of FDM filament as...
To capture an instant on film or sensor with a camera, you usually need a fast shutter. But alternately a...
In 1983, a 14-year-old saw an LED clock in The Sharper Image store. At $250, it stayed in the store....
These days, not only are oscilloscopes very common, but even a cheap instrument today would have been the envy of...
