Collaborate Disseminate
Snooping in on satellites is getting to be quite popular, enough so that the number of people advancing the state of the art — not to mention the wealth of …read more Continue reading Using an Old Satellite to See the Earth in a New Light
There’s a point in a component’s thermal regime that’s between normal operation and overloaded to the point of obvious failure. That’s a dangerous region, because the component isn’t quite hot …read more Continue reading Thermochromic Treatment Keeps Solderless Breadboards Smokeless
Love them or hate them, the crop of cheap hand-held amateur radio transceivers is here to stay. They’re generally horrible radios, often smearing spurious emissions across the spectrum, but they’re …read more Continue reading Inexpensive Ham Radio Gets Upgrades Thanks to a Trojan
Here’s an exercise for you: type “crystals” into your favorite search engine and see what you get. If you’re anything like us, you’ll get a bunch of pseudoscientific posts about …read more Continue reading Growing Simple Crystals for Non-Linear Optics Experiments
A word of advice: If you see an old direct satellite TV dish put out to the curb, grab it before the trash collector does. Like microwave ovens, satellite dishes …read more Continue reading Minimal Mods Make Commodity LNBs Work for QO-100 Reception
Join us on Wednesday, July 5 at noon Pacific for the 3D Printing Food Hack Chat with Ellie Weinstein! In the right hands, food goes beyond mere sustenance and becomes …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Food Hack Chat
Members of Pixelbar woke up to shocking news on Wednesday morning this week as they learned that a fire had destroyed the building housing their Rotterdam hackerspace. Pictures of the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 2, 2023
The number of satellites whizzing by over our heads at any moment is staggering, and growing at a rapid rate as new constellations are launched. But sometimes it’s the old …read more Continue reading A Quick and Easy Tape Measure Turnstile Antenna for MILSAT Snooping
[Helge Fyske (LA6NCA)] may not be an actual spy — then again, he may be; if he’s good at it, we wouldn’t know — but he has built a couple …read more Continue reading Spy Radio Setup Gets a Tiny Power Supply for Field Operations
With summer just underway here in North America, it may seem like a strange time to talk about snow. But when you live in North Idaho, winter is never very …read more Continue reading Know Snow: Monitoring Snowpack with the SNOTEL Network