If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned...
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Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to , yes you can. But should you? Well,...
Ham radio enthusiasts, people looking to borrow their neighbors’ WiFi, and those interested in decoding signals from things like weather...
had an interesting problem to solve—his girlfriend often requested Diet Coke, but yelling for one across the apartment was frustrating...
Researchers have been testing a new type of lithium ion battery that uses single-crystal electrodes. Over several years, they’ve found...
Who wouldn’t want to have a scanning electron microscope (SEM)? If you’re the person behind the ProjectsInFlight channel on YouTube, you...
The shape of an antenna can make a big difference in its performance. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics...
built a Pi Pico logic analyzer designed by using the original design. But he recently had a chance to test...
Playing Star Wars Outlaws sparked an idea with : why not recreate the game’s wrist communicator as a functioning gadget?...
It’s perhaps not fair, but even if you have the best idea for a compelling video, few things will make...
For home computer users, the end of the 1980s was the era of 16-bit computers. The challenge facing manufacturers of...
Does “Pix or it didn’t happen” apply to traveling to the edge of space on a balloon-lofted solar observatory? Yes,...
Each Christmas, , , and (meanwhile going by ‘the Janky Jingle Crew’)—set themselves the challenge of outdoing their previous creations....
The web browser started life as a relatively simple hypertext reading application, but over the 30+ years since the first...
Reverse engineering a payphone doesn’t sound like a very interesting project, at least in the United States, where payphones were...
Every scout knows how to read a compass, and that there is a magnetic north and a true north. That’s...
Although a lot of tools have been digitized and consolidated into our smartphones, from cameras, music players, calendars, alarm clocks,...
As part of a phosphorescence detector, has been working with photodiodes. The components, like all diodes, have some capacitance at...
Two guys — Stern and Gerlach — did an experiment in 1922. They wanted to measure magnetism caused by electron...
If you’re new to the world of circular math, you might be content with referring to pi as 3.14. If...
If you were in Tunisia in October, you might have caught some of the Morse Code championships this year. If...
For the amateur radio operator with that on-the-go lifestyle, nothing is more important than having your gear as light and...
Have you ever considered running your ham radio remotely? It has been feasible for years but not always easy. Recently,...
Conventional wisdom has it that the solid state era in electronics began in 1948 with the invention of the transistor,...
We will admit it. If we found a 386 motherboard as badly corroded as the one did, we would trash...
