Collaborate Disseminate
When people like Bell and Marconi invented telephones and radios, you have to wonder who they talked to for testing. After all, they had the first device. [Jeff] had a …read more Continue reading 10 Gigabit Ethernet for the Pi
We think of electric cars as a new invention, but even Thomas Edison had one. It isn’t so much that the idea is new, but the practical realization for normal …read more Continue reading The Nuclear Powered Car from Ford
The advent of the microcontroller changed just about everything. Modern gadgets often have a screen-based interface that may hide dozens or hundreds of functions that would have been impractical and …read more Continue reading Tech Hidden in Plain Sight: Cruise Control
There’s a lot of expense in what telephone companies call “the last mile” — delivering service from the main trunks to your home or business. StarLink wants to avoid that …read more Continue reading StarLink Terminal Unit Firmware Dumped
PostScript started out as a programming language for printers. While PostScript printers are still a thing, there are many other ways to send data to a printer. But PostScript also …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: PDF for Penguins
You tend to think of test equipment in fairly basic terms: a multimeter, a power supply, a signal generator, and an oscilloscope. However, there are tons of highly-specialized test equipment …read more Continue reading Lightwave Multimeter Teardown
Few things have changed our workshops more than surface mount components. In 1980 it would have been strange to see a hobby bench with a microscope, hot air equipment, tweezers, …read more Continue reading Iron Becomes SMD Hot Plate
We’ve seen a lot of homebrew filament extruders, but [Stefan] at CNC Kitchen shows off a commercial desktop filament extruder in his latest video, which you can see below. The …read more Continue reading Machine Extrudes Filament
You can sense a lot of things with the right sensor, and [Nikhil Nailwal] is here to show us how to sense colors using a TCS230. The project is a …read more Continue reading This Arduino isn’t Color Blind
The Internet teaches us that we can accept stand-ins for the real world. We have an avatar that looks like us. We have virtual mailboxes to read messages out of …read more Continue reading Internet Chess on a Real Chessboard