Back when phones used to ship with chargers in the box, you’d get a plugpack that could charge one device....
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If you mention the word bus, you might think of public transportation or, more likely for us, a way to...
Considering how integral it is to our modern way of life, you could be excused for thinking that the Global...
When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers. History...
VPNs, Virtual Private Networks, aren’t just a good idea to keep your data secure: for millions of people living under...
Perhaps at this point, getting NetBSD running on an obscure piece of hardware is a dog-bites-man story, and not worth...
Nuclear batteries are pretty simple devices that are conceptually rather similar to photovoltaic (PV) solar, just using the radiation from...
You’re probably not going to hang out around Chernobyl any time soon. Still, knowing the conditions there can both satisfy...
As a company, Fluke has been making electronic test equipment longer than the bipolar junction transistor has been around for....
It seems like everybody takes their turn doing an ESP32-based weather display, and why not? They’re cheap, they’re easy, and...
If you are a certain age, you doubtlessly remember Heathkit. They produced a wide array of electronic kits that were...
Communication with satellites often involves the use of high-gain directional antennas coupled with careful positioning to find and track the...
It is an old trope in submarine movies. A sonar operator strains to hear things in the ocean but dares...
Oh sure, you’ve got calculators. There’s that phone program of course, and the one that comes with your OS, and...
Some might say the venerable Z80 doesn’t need another operating system, but obviously disagrees. He has come up with a...
It’s nice to hide away in our little corner of the internet and talk tech, safely away from the turmoil...
Modern technology builds on abstractions. Most application programmers today don’t know what a non-maskable interrupt is, nor should they have...
Batteries are notoriously difficult pieces of technology to deal with reliably. They often need specific temperatures, charge rates, can’t tolerate...
Raspberry Pi 5 price increases. (Credit: Jeff Geerling) Although easily dismissed by some as another cruel April Fools joke, Raspberry...
As literally everything ought to be able to play DOOM in some fashion, recently set out to make the venerable DNS...
Recently had one of his Cyclenbatt LiFePO4 batteries die after only a few dozen cycles, with a normal voltage still...
Over the years there have been many designs for pan-and-tilt camera mounts suitable for single board computer cameras. Often they...
There were a plethora of tiny, local ISPs in the days of dial-up internet. Along with the big providers, many...
With ever increasing sizes of various programs (video games being notorious for this), the question of size optimization comes up...
The humble NE555 has been around for over five decades now, and while during that time we’ve seen a succession...
