Collaborate Disseminate
When the Apollo astronauts made their way to the Moon, their communication equipment had a transmission power of a mere 20 W, which the sensitive receivers back on Earth managed …read more Continue reading Inside A 20-Watt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier From Apollo
Who doesn’t know the struggle? Buying an interesting piece of hardware for a song and a dance, and then finding that the device’s firmware and/or configuration file is locked down …read more Continue reading Using Ghidra To Extract A Router Configuration Encryption Key
When it comes to designing enclosures which aren’t simple boxes or other basic shapes, the design process tends to get somewhat tedious and involved as the number of measurements to …read more Continue reading Design A Custom Enclosure Using Modelling Clay And Photogrammetry
After purchasing an Owon XDM2041 bench multimeter for an automated test setup, [Petteri Aimonen] was disappointed to find that at especially the higher mega Ohm ranges, the measured values were …read more Continue reading Fixing Noisy Measurements On An Owon XDM2041 Bench Multimeter
Even as we bask in the knowledge that our neighboring planet Mars is currently home to a multitude of still functional landers, a triplet of rovers and with an ever-growing …read more Continue reading Checking Up On Earth’s Sister Planet: NASA’s Upcoming Venus Missions
Most new nuclear fission reactors being built today are of the light water reactor (LWR) type, which use water for neutron moderation into thermal neutrons as well as neutron capture. …read more Continue reading TerraPower’s Natrium: Combining A Fast Neutron Reactor With Built-In Grid Level Storage
When Nathan Copeland suffered a car accident in 2004, damage to his spinal cord at the C5/C6 level resulted in tetraplegic paralysis. This left him initially at the age of …read more Continue reading Adding A Gentle Touch To Prosthetic Limbs With Somatosensory Stimulation
After decades of improvements to hard disk drive (HDD) technology, manufacturers are now close to taking the next big leap that will boost storage density to new levels. Using laser-assisted …read more Continue reading How Graphene May Enable The Next Generations Of High-Density Hard Drives
With the market for STM32F103C8-based ‘Blue Pill’ boards slowly being overrun with boards that contain either a cloned, fake or outright broken chip, [Terry Porter] really wanted to have an …read more Continue reading Test Your ‘Blue Pill’ Board For A Genuine STM32F103C8 MCU
[Rowan Patterson] informed us about a recent ticket he opened over at the Raspberry Pi Documentation GitHub repository. He asked about the the lack of updates to the Raspberry Pi 4’s …read more Continue reading The Compromises of Raspberry Pi Hardware Documentation