via Hackaday: Happy Birthday to Dad, Retrocomputer Style
For those of us who lived through the early 8-bit computing revolution — the tail…
Category: Offbeat
via Hackaday: Farewell Magnetic Stripe
For decades, the magnetic stripe has been ubiquitous on everything from credit cards to tickets…
via Hackaday: Fighting the Scourge of “Screwdriver Mange”
We’ve all got our favorite hand tools, and while the selection criteria are usually pretty…
Ontario man stumbles upon “mind-boggling” North Korean state TV broadcasts
August 21, 2024 North Korea is extremely selective about what it chooses to show to outsiders, yet an Ontario...
via Hackaday: Unusual Tool Gets an Unusual Repair
In today’s value-engineered world, getting a decade of service out of a cordless tool is…
via Hackaday: Lunar Lander Game Asks You to Write a Simple Autopilot
Everyone likes a good lunar landing simulator, and wrote a fun take on…
via Hackaday: Entangled Photons Maintained Using Existing Fiber Under NYC’s Streets
Entangled photons are an ideal choice for large-scale networks employing quantum encryption or similar, as…
via Hackaday: Ryobi Battery Pack Gives Up Its Secrets Before Giving Up the Ghost
Remember when dead batteries were something you’d just toss in the trash? Those days are…
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: 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: 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: Seiko Had A Smartwatch In 1984
You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you…
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: Going Ham Mobile on a Bicycle
It’s said that “Golf is a good walk spoiled,” so is attaching an amateur radio to…
Via the ARRL: Gaming the Amateur Radio Digital Modes
Ever played poker over FT8? YouTuber Steve McGrane, KM9G (@temporarilyoffline), and his friends at the…
Dead Hand Or Something Else? A Possible Explanation For Strange Numbers Station UVB-76
Imagine for a moment you’re a ham radio enthusiast, alone at night, idly working your way through…
via HACKADAY: Orange FM Brings Radio to the GameBoy
We’ve all been there. You left your Walkman at home and only have your trusty…
via HACKADAY: Almost Making a Camera Sensor From Scratch
On our travels round the hardware world we’ve encountered more than one group pursuing the…
via HACKADAY: Radio Frequency Burns, Flying a Kite, and You
Most hams can tell you that it’s possible to get a nasty RF burn if…
via HACKADAY: The Hunt for MH370 Goes On With Barnacles As A Lead
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished. The crash site was never found,…
The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz, A Physics Connoisseur? Who Knew?
As part of my reporting for a story last week about the new NJR Media…
New “OnlyHams” site is coming soon
Sources report a site for Amateur Operators to show pics and videos of their stations…
via HACKADAY: The Hunt For Alien Radio Signals Began Sooner Than You Think
Every 26 months, Earth and Mars come tantalizingly close by virtue of their relative orbits….
via HACKADAY: The Lunar Odyssey: Moon Landings From the 1960s to Today’s Attempts
With the recent string of lunar landing attempts, it’s interesting to consider how much things…
via HACKADAY: Creating a Numbers Station Of Your Very Own
Numbers stations are a weird phenomenon where odd voices read out long strings of numbers…