Collaborate Disseminate
NASA’s been recruiting citizen scientists lately, and their latest call is looking for help from ham radio operators. They want you to make and report radio contacts during the 2023 …read more Continue reading NASA Help Wanted: Ham Radio Operators Please Apply
If you are trying to build a router or access point, you’ll need to dig into some of the details of networking that are normally hidden from you. But, for …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Sharing Your Single WiFi
IBM — no stranger to anyone who works in the computing field — has launched a series of training modules on a site called skillsbuild.org. The site targets high school …read more Continue reading IBM Wants You To Learn Tech
Antennas are a key component to any RF gadget. But antennas often only perform well over a narrow band of frequencies. For some applications, this is acceptable, but often you …read more Continue reading Electromagnetic Mechanism Makes Reconfigurable Antenna
If you often spin up a virtual machine just to run Windows, you might be sad that you have to allocate so much space for it. The Tiny11 project provides …read more Continue reading Tiny11 Makes Windows 11 Small
We live in a time when having an oscilloscope is only a minor luxury. But for many decades, a good scope was a major expense, and almost no hobbyist had …read more Continue reading Retro Gadgets: Make Your Scope Dual Channel
[Machining and Microwaves] has long wanted to use a 3D printer to print RF components for antennas and microwave lenses. He heard that Rogers — the company known for making …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Antennas with Dielectric Resin
Having a big bookshelf of ham radio books and magazines used to be a point of bragging right for hams. These days, you are more likely to just browse the …read more Continue reading Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications is a Treasure Trove
[Chuck] often prints up interesting 3D prints. But we enjoyed his enhancement to a cheap LED Christmas tree kit. The original kit was simply a few green PCBs in the …read more Continue reading Clear PLA Diffuses LEDs
If you are a retrocomputer fan, you might remember when serial ports were a few hundred baud and busses ran at a few megahertz at the most. Today, of course, …read more Continue reading Quantum Interconnects Get Faster