Collaborate Disseminate
With the 44th anniversary of the launch of Voyager I, [Daniel] decided to use GNU Radio to decode Voyager data. The data isn’t live, but a recording from the Green Bank …read more Continue reading GNU Radio Decodes Voyager Data
Imagine visiting a home that was off the grid, using hydroelectric power to run lights, a dishwasher, a vacuum cleaner, and a washing machine. There’s a system for watering the …read more Continue reading Historical Hackers: The Hacker of Cragside, Circa 1870
We often look at news out of the research community and think, “we could build that.” But the latest brain-machine interface from an international team including the Georgia Institute of …read more Continue reading Brain Interface Uses Tiny Needles
If you shop, you can get a pretty nice laptop for around $595. Maybe not the top of the line, but still pretty nice with multiple cores, a large hard …read more Continue reading Love Letter to Commodore 64 Ads Takes Us Down Memory Lane
If you have devices out in the field, you probably want to connect with them. There was a time when that was hard to do, requiring telephone wires or specialized …read more Continue reading Review: Hands on with the Swarm Satellite Network Eval Kit
A few 3D printers have had a deserved reputation for bursting into flames. Most — but apparently not all — printers these days has firmware that will detect common problems …read more Continue reading Test for 3D Printer Runaway
One of the nice things about the Unix philosophy that Linux inherited is that the filesystem is very modular. That’s good, too, because a typical system might want a choice …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: User Space File Systems — Now for Windows, Too!
Creating things with ceramics is nothing new — people have done it for centuries. There are ways to 3D print ceramics, too. Well, you typically 3D print the wet ceramic …read more Continue reading Printing Ceramics Made Easier
We like regenerative receivers. They perform well and they are dead simple to create. Example? [Radio abUse] modified a few existing designs and built a one-transistor receiver. Well, one transistor …read more Continue reading Regen Receiver with Few Parts
[Joseph Bentley] must be one of those people who sees opportunity in problems. He had several friends who were victims of knife attacks, so he developed REACT, a device that …read more Continue reading Dyson Award Goes To Emergency Medical Device for Treating Stab Wounds