Collaborate Disseminate
Over the last decade we have brought you frequent reports not from the coolest of hackerspaces or the most bleeding edge of engineering in California or China, but from the …read more Continue reading The FTC Take Action, Is Time Finally Up For John Deere On Right To Repair?
The chances are that many of you will have made an FM “bug” style transmitter, a simple one-transistor oscillator usually driven by a small electret microphone. It’s also relatively straightforward …read more Continue reading Making A Mini AM Transmitter Better
The ESP32 series of microcontrollers have been with us for quite a few years now, providing a powerful processor and wireless connectivity for not a huge outlay. We’ve seen a …read more Continue reading The ESP32-C5, Finally Espressif Goes Dual-Band
Photographic accessories are often plagued by high prices, as photography is considered a rich man’s game. It doesn’t have to be that way though, and [Snappiness] is here to get …read more Continue reading A Waist Level Viewfinder For Not A Lot
Not too far away from where this is being written is one of Uncle Sam’s NATO outposts, a satellite earth station for their comms system. Its most prominent feature is …read more Continue reading Does a Radome Affect Radio?
At the height of the Cold War, those of us on the western side of the wall had plenty of choice over our radio listening, even if we stuck with …read more Continue reading Soviet Wired Radio, How It Worked
At least some in the audience will at some time in the distant past have loaded or saved a program on cassette, with an 8-bit home computer. The machine would …read more Continue reading A Modem as a Cassette Interface
Last year we covered the creation of a 3D-printed full-size replica of an original Computer Space arcade machine, the legendary first glimmer from what would become Atari, one of the …read more Continue reading A Second Rare Atari Cabinet 3D Printed
Last October we showed you a video from [LiamTronix], in which he applied an electric conversion to a 1960s Massey-Ferguson 65 which had seen better days. It certainly seemed ready …read more Continue reading An Electric Converted Tractor CAN Farm!
With ready availability of single board computers, displays, keyboards, power packs, and other hardware, a home-made laptop is now a project within most people’s reach. Some laptop projects definitely veer …read more Continue reading This Home Made Laptop Raises The Bar