Communication with satellites often involves the use of high-gain directional antennas coupled with careful positioning to find and track the...
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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...
In the early days of the Internet, having a high-speed IP connection in your home or even a small business...
Although it dates back to the early days of the Marconi Company in the 1920s, the Franklin oscillator has remained...
Stream decks are pretty useful in all kinds of contexts, but commercial models can feel a bit pricy for what...
You probably don’t spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anymore, since it’s thoroughly been superseded many...
We’re all used to it by now, but I’d just like to reflect on how insanely power-packed lithium ion batteries...
We’re used to electronic parts of the same type staying predictably the same, sometimes over many years. An early Z80...
The final second prototype flying. (Credit: Luke Maximo Bell, YouTube) The dream of fully powering everything from aircraft to cars...
