Every ham radio shack needs a clock; ideally one with operator-friendly features like multiple time zones and more. found that...
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Analog TV may have shuffled off its mortal coil years ago, but there are still plenty of old CRT TV...
The WS2812B has become one of the most popular addressable LEDs out there. They’re easy to drive from just about...
In theory having a single device that combines the features of multiple dedicated devices is a great idea, saving a...
Although not as reviled as the sound of nails on chalkboard, the sound of adhesive tape being peeled is quite...
You wake up in the middle of the night. Is it time to get up? Well, you can look at...
Even entry-level oscilloscopes today have simple math functions such as adding or subtracting two channels. But as notes, more advanced...
has a new video talking about a nasty side effect of using resistors: noise. If you watch the video below,...
With more and more sensors being crammed into the consumer devices that many of us wear every day, the question...
Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers...
The classic design of a mechanical clock generally consists of a display, a way to store energy, a way to...
For as long as small, hidden radio transmitters have existed, people have wanted a technology to detect them. One of...
Many things about diamonds seem eternal, including the many engineering problems related to making them work as a silicon replacement...
recently put the finishing touches on an ambitious implementation of a simple D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) transceiver...
Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. In 1966, the main spacecraft ejected a 99-kg lander...
When didn’t want to copy Morse code, he decided to build a Pi Pico system to read it for him....
If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp of a...
While the average person would use a standard charger to top off their phone, is no average man. Instead, he...
Everyone here can think of a cloud-connected product that was killed because the company that made it stopped supporting it....
Hackers have been building their own basic oscilloscopes out of inexpensive MCUs and cheap LCD screens for some years now,...
Although we do often see projects that take antiques and replace some or all of their components with modern equipment,...
A quiet shift over the last couple of decades in many places has been the disappearance of the traditional copper...
In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them....
Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data...
Walkie-talkies are great fun, and ’s bbTalkie project takes the concept a step further by adding some extremely cool features...
