If you are involved in any sort of radio transmission, you probably have at least heard of SWR or standing...
Hackaday
For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the Polaris Dawn mission would include...
Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient...
The Braun TS2 radio was a state-of-the art tube set in 1956. Today it still looks great, but unsurprisingly, the...
It’s fairly insignificant in the scheme of things, and there’s no hardware as yet for us to look at, but...
The Internet Archive has been hacked. This is an ongoing story, but it looks like this started at least as...
There are a great many organizations out there, all with their own intentions—some selfish, some selfless, some that land somewhere...
As if there weren’t enough worrying global news stories already, today the British press and media have been full of...
A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically, augmenting my sense of time...
Down here at the bottom of our ocean of air, it’s easy to get complacent about the hazards our universe...
Sometimes those moments arise when a new device comes on the market and hardware hackers immediately take to it. Over...
Although battery fires in electric cars and two-wheeled vehicles are not a common phenomenon, they are notoriously hard to put...
What do you get when you cross WiFi and LoRa? Researchers in China have been doing this, and they call...
The International Space Station (ISS) might not be breaking news, but this February, National Geographic released a documentary that dives...
The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source...
Earlier this year Zilog stopped production of the classic 40-pin DIP Z80 microprocessor, a move that brought a tear to...
Should you be able to brick a keyboard just by writing a driver to flash the lights on it? We...
Many hobbies seem to have a subset of participants who just can’t leave well enough alone. Think about hot rodders,...
July 1981 cover of CompuServe’s magazine. Long before the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, there were...
Sometimes there’s nothing more rewarding than pulling apart an old piece of hardware of mysterious origin. does just that, and...
Al and I were talking on the podcast about Dan Maloney’s recent piece on how lead and silver are refined...
One of the most universal experiences of any Linux or Unix user is working through a guide or handbook and...
Watch out, Gen X-ers — there’s a nostalgia overload heading your way, courtesy of this over-the-air TV simulator. And it...
A word of warning before watching this very cool video on soldering: it may make you greatly desire what appears...
The 1990s seem to have reached that point at which they are once more considered cool, and ephemera of the...
