via Hackaday: Flirting With Kessler: why Space Debris Physics Make it Such an Orbital Pain
Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now…
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via Hackaday: Amazon Receives FAA Approval for MK30 Delivery Drone
It’s been about a decade since Amazon began to fly its delivery drones, aiming to…
via Hackaday: Solve: An ESP32-Based Equation Solving Calculator
We’re suckers for good-looking old-school calculators, so this interesting numerical equation-solving calculator by caught…
via Hackaday: Turning a Quansheng Handheld Into A Neat Desktop Transceiver
The Quansheng UV-K5 is a popular handheld radio. It’s useful out of the box, but…
via Hackaday: PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer…
via Hackaday: KolibriOS: The Operating System That Fits on a 1.44 MB 3.5″ Floppy Disk
While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure…
via Hackaday: The Piezoelectric Glitching Attack
Many readers will be familiar with the idea of a glitching attack, introducing electrical noise…
via Hackaday: On the Nature of Electricity: Recreating the Early Experiments
Bits of material levitating against gravity, a stream of water deflected by invisible means, sparks…
via Hackaday: The Nixie Tube Multimeter That Almost Made a Comeback
In a world of digital monotony, the Avo DA14 digital multimeter, with its vintage J…
via Hackaday: Libre Space Foundation Aims to Improve Satellite Tech
There’s no shortage of movies, TV shows, and books that show a dystopian future with…
via Hackaday: Video Provides Rare Look Inside China’s Space Station
China has a space station — it’s called Tiangong, the first module was launched in…
via Hackaday: Heathkit Signal Generator Gets an Update
correctly intuits that if you are interested in an old Heathkit signal generator, you…
via Hackaday: The 1924 Martian Signal: A Cosmic Curiosity
In an age where our gadgets allow us to explore the cosmos, we stumbled upon…
via Hackaday: Voyager 1 Fault Forces Switch to S-Band
We hate to admit it, but whenever we see an article about either Voyager spacecraft,…
via Hackaday: Use PicoGlitcher For Voltage Glitching Attacks
We see a fair few glitcher projects, especially the simpler voltage glitchers. Still, quite often…
via Hackaday: Pulley System Makes Headphone Cables More Managable
It’s 2024. You’ve probably got one or more pairs of wireless headphones around the house….
via Hackaday: GPS Tracking in the Trackless Land
Need a weekend project? wanted a GPS tracker that would send data out via…
via Hackaday: Will .IO Domain Names Survive A Geopolitical Rearrangement?
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a major functional component of the modern Internet. We…
via Hackaday: An SAO for Hams
Generally speaking, the Hackaday Supercon badge will always have a place for SAO (rebranded as…
via Hackaday: Memristors Are Cool, Radiation-resistant Memristors Even Moreso
Space is a challenging environment for semiconductors, but researchers have shown that a specific type…
via Hackaday: Need High-Power Li-Ion Charging? How About 100 W
Ever want a seriously powerful PCB for charging a Li-Ion pack? Whatever you want it…
via Hackaday: A New Chinese Radio Breaks Cover, is it Worth it?
Scanning the firehose of new electronic kits and modules coming from the usual Chinese suppliers…
via Hackaday: New Study Looks at the Potential Carcinogenicity of 3D Printing
We’ve all heard stories of the dangers of 3D printing, with fires from runaway hot…
via Hackaday: Tech in Plain Sight: Zipper Bags
You probably think of them as “Ziploc” bags, but, technically, the generic term is zipper…
via Hackaday: Making A Split-Anode Magnetron
YouTuber The Science Furry has been attempting to make a split-anode magnetron and, after earlier failures, is having another crack…