Satellite operators usually send commands as digital packets over radio, but one group of amateur radio operators tried something a...
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YouTuber Colsto has made a name for himself by finding novel ways to track down hidden locations: those of album...
FogCam is the oldest webcam feed that’s still up and running. Installed at San Francisco State University, it’s been slowly...
has a new demo of an old 1970s patent for a portable generator that is both interesting and terrifying. The...
has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of radio that...
Wind-up radios are selling out after the Government advised the public to stockpile goods in case of emergency. Retailers reported...
When you look into the night sky, you can’t help but wish to bring the outer worlds to your doorstep....
If you’re a collector of older TVs, you’re probably facing the problem in some form of having no transmissions to...
may have written up his observations a few years ago, but the lessons are just as relevant today as they...
Predictions of the future are often laughable when reviewed in the years for which they are made. For example, here...
In 2014, a spacecraft launched before the first Space Shuttle flight was approaching Earth for the first time in decades....
These days, it’s plenty easy to build a Geiger counter with a microcontroller that has a nice fancy display and...
Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex...
By Rob Rosenberger (K4HST) The FCC erroneously issued call sign "WB4MZ0" (numeral zero) on December 5, 1994 to the Wedixie...
It’s a sci-fi trope that you can ‘scan for life signs’ and detect if there are humans — or suspiciously...
A pilot presses the transmit button, says who he is, and lets go. What comes back is not a controller....
took on an interesting challenge. The BBC, apparently, produced a game console known as the BBC Bridge Companion that connected...
Milo, M9ILO very kindly sent us these sketches, which he did whilst away at the YOTA Summer Camp in Wagrain,...
For as long as humans have had writing, there’s been a need to send secret messages. It is easy to...
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...
