Collaborate Disseminate
If you know much about radios and espionage, you’ve probably encountered number stations. These are mysterious stations that read out groups of numbers or otherwise encoded messages to… well… someone. …read more Continue reading Spy Tech: Conflicts Bring a New Number Station
What did Elliot Williams and Al Williams read on Hackaday last week? Tune in and find out. After a bit of news, [Vik Oliver] chimes in with some deep PLA …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 363: The History of PLA, Laser DIY PCBs, and Corporate Craziness
Digital Convergence Corporation is hardly a household name, and there’s a good reason for that. However, it raised about $185 million in investments around the year 2000 from companies such …read more Continue reading Retail Fail: The :CueCat Disaster
If you’ve ever run a game server or used BitTorrent, you probably know that life is easier if your router supports UPnP (Universal Plug and Play). This is a fairly …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: UPNP A Port Mapping Odyssey
In the early days of aviation, pilots or their navigators used a plethora of tools to solve common navigation and piloting problems. There was definitely a need for some kind …read more Continue reading The Zero-Power Flight Computer
In the early days of the Internet, having a high-speed IP connection in your home or even a small business was, if not impossible, certainly a rarity. Connecting to a …read more Continue reading The Rise and Fall of Free Dial Up Internet
It is a safe bet that nearly all Hackaday readers like to at least imagine what it would be like to build and live in an orbital station, on the …read more Continue reading Fictional Moon: Reality TV and SciFi Don’t Mix
They say you should never throw out old clothes because they will come back in style one day. Maybe they are right. We noted in a recent BBC post that, …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Wired or Wireless Headphones?
If you have ever read science fiction, you’ve probably seen “alternate history” stories. You know, where Europeans didn’t discover the New World until the 19th century, or the ancient Egyptians …read more Continue reading The IPV4 We Didn’t Get
If you think about it, you can’t be sure that what you see for the color red, for example, is what anyone else in the world actually sees. All you …read more Continue reading Seeing the World Through Animal Eyes