via Hackaday: Canadarm2 Scores Milestone With Catching Its 50th Spacecraft
Recently Canada’s Canadarm2 caught its 50th spacecraft in the form of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus…
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via Hackaday: The First Air Force One and How it Was Nearly Lost Forever
Although the designation ‘Air Force One’ is now commonly known to refer to the airplane…
via Hackaday: Globe-Shaped World Clock Is A 3D-Printed Mechanical Marvel
Time zones are a complicated but necessary evil. Humans like the numbers on the clock…
via Hackaday: Possible Discovery of Liquid Water In Mars’ Mid-Crust by the Insight Lander
One of the most sought after substances in the Universe is water – especially in…
via Hackaday: A Tiny Knob Keeps You In Control
There are many forms of human interface device beyond the ubiquitous keyboard and mouse, but…
via Hackaday: Pi Pico SDR on a Breadboard
How hard is it to make a fully standalone SDR? shows you how…
via Hackaday: Moonbounce Music
There’s something inspiring about echos. Who among us hasn’t called out or clapped hands in…
via Hackaday: The First New Long Wave Radio Station Of This Millennium
The decline of AM broadcast radio is a slow but inexorable process over much of…
via Hackaday: The Waveguide Explanation You Wish You’d Had At School
Anyone who has done an electronic engineering qualification will at some point have had to…
via Hackaday: Fixing a Busted Fluke While Fighting a Wonky Schematic
Fluke meters have been around for a long, long time. Heck, we’ve got a Fluke…
via HACKADAY: You’ve Got The Portable Radio, Now What About The Antenna?
There’s an old saying in the amateur radio community that when it comes to antennas…
via HACKADAY: An Antenna to Throw You for a Loop
It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when…
via HACKADAY: Ask Hackaday: Is Shortwave on Life Support?
Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple…
via HACKADAY: FauxTRS Is Definitely Not A Trash 80
Among the 8-bit home micro boom from the late 1970s through early 1980s, the introduction…
via HACKADAY: Coax Stub Filters Demystified
Unless you hold a First Degree RF Wizard rating, chances are good that coax stubs…
via HACKADAY: A Nostalgic Look at a Kid’s Shortwave Resistor
had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the…
via HACKADAY: CW Not Hard Enough? Try This Tiny Paddle
For a long time, a Morse code proficiency was required to obtain an amateur radio…
via HACKADAY: Seiko Had A Smartwatch In 1984
You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you…
via HACKADAY: DME with a Twist of LimeSDR
Navigating aircraft today isn’t like the old days. No more arrows painted on a barn…
via HACKADAY: Making a Solid State 6AK8 Tube
had a project in mind: replacing a common vacuum tube with a solid-state equivalent….
via HACKADAY: Are Hackers The Future of Amateur Radio?
If amateur radio has a problem, it’s that shaking off an image of being the…
via HACKADAY: Smart Ball Technology Has Reached Football, But The Euros Show Us It’s Not Necessarily For The Better
The good old fashioned game of football used to be a simple affair. Two teams…
via HACKADAY: Hackable Ham Radio Gives Up Its Mechanical Secrets
Reverse-engineered schematics are de rigeur around these parts, largely because they’re often the key to very cool…
via HACKADAY: How the Bell System Was Built
We’ve often thought that while going to the moon in the 1960s was audacious, it…
via HACKADAY: Hacking Airline WiFi the Hard Way
We’ve all been there. You are on a flight, there’s WiFi, but you hate to…