Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex...
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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...
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...
