Hackers have been building their own basic oscilloscopes out of inexpensive MCUs and cheap LCD screens for some years now,...
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Although we do often see projects that take antiques and replace some or all of their components with modern equipment,...
A quiet shift over the last couple of decades in many places has been the disappearance of the traditional copper...
Over on YouTube has a Function Generator Build for Beginners. As beginner videos go this one is fairly comprehensive. shows...
In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them....
Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data...
Walkie-talkies are great fun, and ’s bbTalkie project takes the concept a step further by adding some extremely cool features...
When it comes to electromagnetic waves, humans can really only directly perceive a very small part of the overall spectrum,...
and of Lumafield recently visited with to share their battery quality report, which documents their findings after performing X-ray computed...
An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to...
Before the modern Internet existed, there were still plenty of ways of connecting with other computer users “online”, although many...
When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting proposition....
There’s little about building spacecraft that anyone would call simple. But there’s at least one element of designing a vehicle...
If you follow electronics history, few names were as ubiquitous as RCA, the Radio Corporation of America. Yet in modern...
Lithium batteries have taken over as the primary battery chemistry from applications ranging from consumer electronics to electric vehicles and...
After the swivel by Helium Inc. towards simply running distributed WiFi hotspots after for years pushing LoRaWAN nodes, many of...
If you were asked to pick the most annoying of the various Microsoft Windows interfaces that have appeared over the...
Everyone knows that the path of least resistance is the path that will always be taken, be it by water,...
It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar...
Drawing tablets have been a favorite computer peripheral of artists since its inception in the 1980s. If you have ever...
from Biricha Digital runs us through How to Select the Perfect Output Capacitor for Your Power Supply. Your switching-mode power...
Variable capacitors may be useful, but the air gap that provides their capacitance is their greatest weakness. Rather than deal...
Today in power electronics, the folks over at Texas Instruments have put together a video covering low-dropout (LDO) linear regulators....
You can hear sound, of course, but what if you could see it with a laser? That’s what thought about,...
You don’t see them much anymore, but there was a time when any hobbyist who dealt with RF probably had...
