Back when phones used to ship with chargers in the box, you’d get a plugpack that could charge one device....
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If you mention the word bus, you might think of public transportation or, more likely for us, a way to...
VPNs, Virtual Private Networks, aren’t just a good idea to keep your data secure: for millions of people living under...
You’re probably not going to hang out around Chernobyl any time soon. Still, knowing the conditions there can both satisfy...
As a company, Fluke has been making electronic test equipment longer than the bipolar junction transistor has been around for....
It seems like everybody takes their turn doing an ESP32-based weather display, and why not? They’re cheap, they’re easy, and...
If you are a certain age, you doubtlessly remember Heathkit. They produced a wide array of electronic kits that were...
Communication with satellites often involves the use of high-gain directional antennas coupled with careful positioning to find and track the...
Oh sure, you’ve got calculators. There’s that phone program of course, and the one that comes with your OS, and...
Some might say the venerable Z80 doesn’t need another operating system, but obviously disagrees. He has come up with a...
It’s nice to hide away in our little corner of the internet and talk tech, safely away from the turmoil...
Batteries are notoriously difficult pieces of technology to deal with reliably. They often need specific temperatures, charge rates, can’t tolerate...
Raspberry Pi 5 price increases. (Credit: Jeff Geerling) Although easily dismissed by some as another cruel April Fools joke, Raspberry...
Recently had one of his Cyclenbatt LiFePO4 batteries die after only a few dozen cycles, with a normal voltage still...
Over the years there have been many designs for pan-and-tilt camera mounts suitable for single board computer cameras. Often they...
There were a plethora of tiny, local ISPs in the days of dial-up internet. Along with the big providers, many...
With ever increasing sizes of various programs (video games being notorious for this), the question of size optimization comes up...
The humble NE555 has been around for over five decades now, and while during that time we’ve seen a succession...
It’s one thing to learn about transmission lines in theory, and quite another to watch a voltage pulse bounce off...
APRs is an amateur radio protocol allowing the exchange of short packets of data. It’s commonly used to transmit a...
Supercapacitors rely mostly on double-layer capacitance to bridge the divide between chemical batteries and traditional capacitors, but they come with...
The Linux world is currently seeing an explosion in new users, thanks in large part to Microsoft turning its Windows...
A switch is simple: connect two pieces of metal together and bam! Except, it’s not that simple at high currents....
Although the RTL-SDR is cheap, accessible, and capable enough for many projects, it does have some important limitations. In particular,...
Sometimes you wanna test a piece of USB hardware, but you don’t just want to plug it into a random...
