Seven-segment displays are one of the most ho-hum ways to display the time. They were cool for a little bit...
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If you want to know when the train is coming, you could pull up a webpage on your phone, or...
We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they...
takes us back to basics in a recent video explaining how magnets, coils, brushed DC motors, and brushless DC motors...
The increasing dominance of lithium cells in the market place leave our trusty NiMH cells in a rough spot. Sure,...
It isn’t unusual to expect a precisely regulated voltage in an electronic project, but what about times when you need...
In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the...
It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input...
Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean people aren’t out to get you. Do you think your soldering iron is...
When the orbit of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December...
Calendar aging of NMC Li-ion cells at 50 ℃ at various SoCs. (Credit: Wiljan Vermeer, IEEE, 2021) With batteries being...
Back in March, a small aircraft in the UK lost engine power while coming in for a landing and crashed....
Old parts such as EPROMs will often find themselves for sale on sites such as eBay, where they are sometimes...
When we talk about HDTV, we’re typically talking about any one of a number of standards from when television made...
This summer, we saw the WHY (What Hackers Yearn) event happen in Netherlands, of course, with a badge to match....
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”...
