This summer, we saw the WHY (What Hackers Yearn) event happen in Netherlands, of course, with a badge to match....
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These days just about any battery storage solution connected to PV solar or similar uses LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries. The reason...
It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they...
Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you...
Friends, I’ve gotten myself into a pickle and I need some help. A few years back, I decided to get...
Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind ’s clever...
When you think of a radio telescope, you usually think of a giant dish antenna pointing skyward. But built Wavy-Scope,...
The fact that there exist in our world flat rocks that make lightning when you point them at the sun...
While some of us may have learned C in order to interact with embedded electronics or deep with computing hardware...
Those of us ancient enough to remember the time, or even having grown up during the heyday of the 8-bit...
If you own a handheld transceiver of any type then the chances are it will come with a “rubber duck”...
bought a cheap arbitrary waveform generator and noted that it only had a two-pin power cord. That has its ups...
Windows, macOS, and Linux are the three major desktop OSs in today’s world. However, there could soon be a new...
Repairing vintage computers is bread-and-butter for many of us around here. The machines themselves tend to be fairly fixable, assuming...
Has anyone noticed that news stories have gotten shorter and pithier over the past few decades, sometimes seeming like summaries...
Any radio amateur will tell you about the spectre of TVI, of their transmissions being inadvertently demodulated by the smallest...
As Ethernet became the world-wide standard for wired networking, there was one nagging problem. You already have to plug in...
The first transistors were point contact devices, not far from the cats-whiskers of early radio receivers. They were fragile and...
If I’m honest with myself, I don’t really need access to an off-grid, fault-tolerant, mesh network like Meshtastic. The weather...
The familiar five volts standard from back in the TTL days always struck me as odd. Back when I was...
When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result. One...
The Unihiker K10 is intended to be a small single-board solution for light AI and machine learning tasks. However, you...
The magnetic loop antenna is a familiar sight in radio amateur circles as a means to pack a high performance...
Just about every laptop, desktop, and smartphone in your life can tell you the date, time, and current weather predictions....
We’re taught how to call emergency numbers from a young age; whether it be 911 in the US, 999 in...
