Collaborate Disseminate
Remember fax machines? They used to be all the rage, and to be honest it was pretty cool to be able to send images back and forth over telephone lines. …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Putting Pictures on the Wire in the 1930s
Dirty little secret time: although amateur radio operators talk a good game about relishing the technical challenge of building their own radio equipment, what’s really behind all the DIY gear …read more Continue reading Low-Cost RF Power Sensor Gets All the Details Right
Mark it on your calendars, folks — this is the week that the term RUD has entered the public lexicon. Sure, most of our community already knows the acronym for …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 23, 2023
In our surface-mount age, it’s easy to be jaded about miniaturization. We pretty much expect every circuit to be dimensionally optimized, something that’s easy to do when SMDs that rival …read more Continue reading Tiny Three-Tube Receiver Completes Spy Radio Suite
It’s podcast time again, and this time around Elliot and Dan took a grand tour through the week’s best and brightest hacks. We checked out an old-school analog cell phone …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 215: Autonomous Race Car, Espresso Robot, and Vintage Computers
In a lot of ways, it seems like we’re in the “plateau of productivity” part of the hype cycle when it comes to drones. UAVs have pretty much been reduced …read more Continue reading That Drone Up in the Sky? It Might be Built Out of a Dead Bird
The least pleasant space in most houses is likely to be the space below it. Basements tend to be dank, dusty, and full of too many things that have too …read more Continue reading Send this FPV Bot into the Crawlspace to Do Your Dirty Work
Depending on the chef’s skill, many exciting things can happen in the kitchen. Few, however, grab as much immediate attention as when a piece of foil or a fork accidentally …read more Continue reading Radio Waves Bring the Heat With This Microwave-Powered Forge
The dystopian future you’ve been expecting is here now, at least if you live in New York City, which unveiled a trio of technology solutions to the city’s crime woes …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 16, 2023
Real-time flight data used to be something that was only available to air traffic controllers, hunched over radar scopes in darkened rooms watching the comings and goings of flights as …read more Continue reading Real Radar Scope CRT Shows Flights Using ADS-B