Collaborate Disseminate
We’re all used to satellite navigation systems such as GPS or GLONASS, sheer magic in which the combination of a set of reference transmitters and super-accurate timing information can be …read more Continue reading Positioning Without Satellites Or Base Stations
About 18 months ago, we brought you a sneak peek at a handheld that started life in the Dutch conference badge scene. At the time it showed promise, but its …read more Continue reading Review: The Tanmatsu, A Year On
There are many experimenters who have had a go at a mechanical television, and though there are a few challenges, it’s a relatively straightforward project in 2026. A hundred years …read more Continue reading Mechanical TV, Without The Benefit Of New Parts
If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super Nintendo with its 16-bit 6502 …read more Continue reading It’s Linux, on a Sega Megadrive
A loudspeaker is a vital component of every device that plays sound, but while its operation is simple, it’s a surprisingly difficult device to build. [Rvanderouderaa] has made an Instructables …read more Continue reading Make Your Own Loudspeaker From Scratch
YouTube streaming typically involves a camera with an HDMI output, a USB3 HDMI digitiser, and a suitably beefy PC to run it all. It’s quite a process, and for [Coreymillia], …read more Continue reading A Standalone YouTube Streaming Rig
Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era. The BBC stopped broadcasting …read more Continue reading Requiem For Long Wave, As The BBC Goes Silent
The smart TV is a fixture in most houses, variously an entertainment portal, corporate data gathering tool, or sometimes an outright spy. It’s a nice monitor with a computer built …read more Continue reading Make That Smart TV into a Computer
An old-style PC BIOS served the function of a bootloader in loading the operating system kernel, and of an API in providing a set of standard system calls through which …read more Continue reading A BIOS For Your ESP32-C6
The British government is in a headlong rush to ban under-16s from social media, and restrict the access of under-18s. And in typical form, the EFF is here with a …read more Continue reading Won’t Somebody Please Think Of Banning The British Children!