For as long as humans have had writing, there’s been a need to send secret messages. It is easy to...
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In April 2010 a communications satellite called Galaxy 15 stopped taking commands and wandered off down the geostationary arc, transponders...
Cheap vehicles are thin on the ground in 2026, but thinks he has the answer for low-speed applications with an...
A clock is by its very nature a device for measuring time, and thus it moves forward at a constant...
Among the many forgotten might-have-beens of the games console world, the Atari Jaguar occupies a special place. It was the...
Last September, Denmark was gripped by a spate of drone sightings near airports. It’s familiar territory for Hackaday, as we...
This may say more about us than the current state of the telephone network, but unless your Grandma is still...
The following is a message from the Eyeball QSO Party: One of the best things to emerge out of the pandemic...
YouTube streaming typically involves a camera with an HDMI output, a USB3 HDMI digitiser, and a suitably beefy PC to...
Fluoroscopy is probably the best-known method of X-ray imaging: an X-ray beam passes through the subject to be imaged, and...
One of the stun gun modules with battery pack. (Credit: Dani Cruster DiWHY, YouTube) Few things are more satisfying during...
With so many online messaging services to choose from it’s almost as though the daddy of them all, email, has...
Nuclear batteries are pretty simple devices that are conceptually rather similar to photovoltaic (PV) solar, just using the radiation from...
Oh sure, you’ve got calculators. There’s that phone program of course, and the one that comes with your OS, and...
There were a plethora of tiny, local ISPs in the days of dial-up internet. Along with the big providers, many...
The final second prototype flying. (Credit: Luke Maximo Bell, YouTube) The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars...
Although the Apple II range of computers were based around the 6502 processor, they could still run x86 software using...
There was an ideal of convergence, a long time ago, when one device would be all you need, digitally speaking....
There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general...
The Space Race, that high-tech Cold War competition to see which global superpower could conquer the cosmos first, was such...
It’s no secret that Google really doesn’t like it that people are installing Android applications from any other source than...
The timer mechanism of the Vend-o-Vision. (Credit: SpaceTime Junction, YouTube) There was a time before portable TVs and personal media...
For many decades humankind has entertained the notion that we can maybe tweak the Earth’s atmosphere or biosphere in such...
In theory having a single device that combines the features of multiple dedicated devices is a great idea, saving a...
Ham Radio Enthusiasts Land U.S. Airlines With $8 Million Bill to Fix Faulty Equipment On Boeing 787s
Ham radio enthusiasts could be partly responsible for landing U.S. airlines with an $8 million bill to fix faulty equipment...
