There are some clocks, mostly in or around international airports, which have multiple faces to show the time at various...
3D printing
It seems that for as long as there have been readily available 3D printers, there have been moral panics about...
Hackers have been building their own basic oscilloscopes out of inexpensive MCUs and cheap LCD screens for some years now,...
Hardware hackers tend to have loads of hookup wire, and that led to design a 3D printable wire and cable...
What can one expect from 3D printing an 8″ Newtonian telescope? shares her thoughts after doing exactly that. The performance...
For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is...
Back in March, a small aircraft in the UK lost engine power while coming in for a landing and crashed....
An increasing number of modern technologies are being used in different ways within amateur radio. From artificial intelligence that helps...
When you think of a radio telescope, you usually think of a giant dish antenna pointing skyward. But built Wavy-Scope,...
Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one...
We’ve all done it at some time — made an electrical connection by twisting together the bare ends of some...
You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? suggests a telescope. The modest instrument...
Zoe Rodriguez, a teacher at the Raymond School in Franksville, Wisconsin — near Milwaukee — has been named the 2025...
When we were kids, it was a rite of passage to read the newly arrived Edmund catalog and dream of...
Sick of raiding old TVs and CRT monitors for flyback transformers to feed your high-voltage addiction? Never fear; if you’re...
If you build electronics, you will eventually need a coil. If you spend any time winding one, you are almost...
You don’t see them as often as you used to, but it used to be common to see “electronics trainers”...
Bears! Are they scared of massive arcs that rip through the air, making a lot of noise in the process?...
If you made something blink, and now it’s time for you to make something move, something like a point-to-a-satellite tracker...
In a recent news bulletin, AMSAT encouraged amateur radio clubs to focus on Makers as a recruiting source for new...
In this edition: * India Launches SpaDeX Satellites with Amateur Radio Experiment * Parker Solar Probe Achieves Closest-Ever Approach to...
Ham radio enthusiasts, people looking to borrow their neighbors’ WiFi, and those interested in decoding signals from things like weather...
Playing Star Wars Outlaws sparked an idea with : why not recreate the game’s wrist communicator as a functioning gadget?...
It’s perhaps not fair, but even if you have the best idea for a compelling video, few things will make...
We don’t know much more than what we see with ’s battery loader design (video embedded below) but it just...
