For serious high-voltage plasma, you need a serious transformer. from Plasma Channel is taking his projects to the next level,...
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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...
It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Thomas E. Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the...
Pretty much every modern car has some driver assistance feature, such as lane departure and blind-spot warnings, or adaptive cruise...
is no stranger to these pages, nor is his Museum is not Obsolete. The museum was recently gifted an enormous...
For some time now, Apple has developed a reputation for manufacturing computers and phones that are not particularly repairable or...
Occasionally, we find fun new electronic instruments in the wild and can’t resist sharing them with our readers. The item...
Your phone or laptop will give you access to the vast majority of news in the world, in languages you...
I recently got one of the new RP2040-based Bus Pirate 5 (BP5), a multi-purpose interface debugging and testing tool. Scanning...
Ideally, if you are going to transmit, you want a properly-tuned resonant antenna. But, sometimes, it isn’t practical. knew about...
bought cheap clip leads online and, wisely, decided to check them. We’ve had the same experience that he’s had. Sometimes,...
The Geochron World Time Indicator is a clock that doubles as a live map of where the sun is shining...
The double-slit experiment, first performed by in 1801 provided the first definitive proof of the dual wave-particle nature of photons....
