Everyone knows that the perfect capacitor to decouple the power rails around ICs is a 100 nF ceramic capacitor or equivalent, ...

Not too far away from where this is being written is one of Uncle Sam’s NATO outposts, a satellite earth station for their ...

Just when you think you’ve learned all the latest 3D printing tricks, [TenTech] shows up with an update to their Fuzzyficator ...

At the height of the Cold War, those of us on the western side of the wall had plenty of choice over our radio listening, ...

Around two years ago, the world was inundated with news about how generative AI or large language models would revolutionize ...

Do they teach networking history classes yet? Or is it still too soon? I was reading [Al]’s first installment of the ...

One of the more popular activities in the ham radio world is DXing, which is attempting to communicate with radio stations as ...

The bike conversion is relatively conventional with the crank replaced by a crank and motor assembly, and a pair of the Ryobi packs in 3D-printed holders on the frame. The value in this is in its ...

At some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, you’ve either got to increase ...

For those of us who remember Radio Shack as more than just an overpriced cell phone store, a lot of the nostalgia for the retailer boils down to the brands on offer. Remember the Realistic line of ...

It’s not every day that an open-source, portable Linux handheld computer gets announced, so I couldn’t resist placing an order for the DevTerm by ClockworkPi back when we first learned about ...

We’ve seen a number of open source smart watches over the years, and while they’ve certainly been impressive from a technical standpoint, they often leave something to be desired in terms of ...