On December 11th, the FCC announced that the band around 6GHz would be open to “very low-power devices.” The new...
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‘Tis the season for holiday hacks, and is here to remind us that we don’t necessarily need a fancy microcontroller...
What if your keychain could tell you the temperature, all while staying battery-free? That’s the essence of this innovative keychain...
Raspberry Pi just dropped the new Raspberry Pi 500, which like its predecessor puts the similarly named SBC into a...
At the time of its construction in the 1950s, the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory was the largest rotatable telescope in the...
There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing,...
The 20th century saw humankind’s first careful steps outside of the biosphere in which our species has evolved. Whereas before...
The world of the overclocker contains many arcane tweaks to squeeze the last drops of performance from a computer, many...
For the cautious, a good piece of advice is to always wait to buy a new product until after the...
We don’t know much more than what we see with ’s battery loader design (video embedded below) but it just...
The small size of action cameras has made them a great solution for getting high-quality experimental footage where other cameras...
When we think of an m.2 slot in our laptop or similar, it’s usually in the context of its PCI...
We love seeing the incredible work many RF enthusiasts manage to pull off — they make it look so easy!...
If you’re planning on working satellites or doing any sort of RF work where the signal lives down in the...
We usually think of a hydraulic system as fully self-contained, with a hydraulic pump, tubing, and actuators filled with a...
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The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project for electronics or radio enthusiasts...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....
