The classic design of a mechanical clock generally consists of a display, a way to store energy, a way to...
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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...
When it comes to electromagnetic waves, humans can really only directly perceive a very small part of the overall spectrum,...
An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to...
Before the modern Internet existed, there were still plenty of ways of connecting with other computer users “online”, although many...
When you’re testing or debugging some mains-powered gear, plugging it directly into the outlet can often be an exciting proposition....
There’s little about building spacecraft that anyone would call simple. But there’s at least one element of designing a vehicle...
If you follow electronics history, few names were as ubiquitous as RCA, the Radio Corporation of America. Yet in modern...
If you were asked to pick the most annoying of the various Microsoft Windows interfaces that have appeared over the...
Everyone knows that the path of least resistance is the path that will always be taken, be it by water,...
It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar...
Drawing tablets have been a favorite computer peripheral of artists since its inception in the 1980s. If you have ever...
