It's time for ham radio clubs to move away from the PDF based newsletter as a primary publishing format. The...
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As hackers, we’re always pulling stuff apart—sometimes just to see what it’s like inside. Most of us have seen the...
Trees and forests are an incredibly important natural resource not only for lumber and agricultural products, but also maintain a...
What color are the street lights in your town? While an unfortunate few still suffer under one of the awful...
After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer,...
Machines that automate the various tedious tasks that come with being a servant in a cat’s household — like feeding...
As we get older, our eyes get worse. That’s just a fact of life. It is a rite of passage...
A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically, augmenting my sense of time...
The Radio Club of Tacoma is celebrating National Sasquatch Awareness Day with a series of special event callsigns that will...
Sometimes those moments arise when a new device comes on the market and hardware hackers immediately take to it. Over...
The Staten Island Technical High School Robotics Team, in Staten Island, New York, took its knowledge and skills to the...
Although battery fires in electric cars and two-wheeled vehicles are not a common phenomenon, they are notoriously hard to put...
Should you be able to brick a keyboard just by writing a driver to flash the lights on it? We...
Sometimes there’s nothing more rewarding than pulling apart an old piece of hardware of mysterious origin. does just that, and...
Watch out, Gen X-ers — there’s a nostalgia overload heading your way, courtesy of this over-the-air TV simulator. And it...
The 1990s seem to have reached that point at which they are once more considered cool, and ephemera of the...
Bumper stickers are usually political, crude, or otherwise inflammatory. Rather a more fun example is this digital creation from ,...
The modern web has become difficult to navigate without ad blocking software. Ford now has a patent that would bring...
The ‘Sombrero Potential’ as seen with the Higgs mechanism. One of the exciting aspects of some fields of physics is...
We’ve seen a great many cat feeders over the years. Some rely on the Internet of Things, and some rely...
As the technology available to the average hacker and maker gets better and cheaper each year, projects which at one...
Recently, bought an Akaso EK7000 action camera for his daughter’s no-smartphones-allowed summer camp, which meant that after his daughter returned...
We have seen so many great receivers and other equipment appear in movies, it’s surprising that this one may have...
There’s a good chance you’ve seen “Nixie clocks” on the Internet that replace the classic cold cathode tubes with similarly...
Whether you have full use of your hands or not, a foot-operated keyboard is a great addition to any setup....
