Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve heard the high-pitched whine or buzz from an electronic device when a current-carrying inductor is vibrating, you’ll know how unpleasant it can be. It’s common in all kinds …read more Continue reading Crowdsourcing An Investigation Into Coil Whine
The hope is always that a good business card will leave a good impression. For those in the electronics field, they also serve as an opportunity to showcase creative design …read more Continue reading Building An Energy-Harvesting Business Card
When it comes to building real-world flying vehicles, testing can be arduous and expensive. You have to find somewhere to fly, then you have to contend with environmental conditions and …read more Continue reading Simulating UAVs In Unreal Engine
The average hot water is a relatively simple appliance to understand. It uses gas or electricity to dump energy into water in the form of heat, keeping it at a …read more Continue reading Defeating Bacteria In Hot Water Systems With A Heat Exchanger
Flip disc displays can be quite a task to drive, what with having some sort of actuator mechanism for each and every dot in the display. [Zimm] has built an …read more Continue reading A Flip Disc Display That Does It Slow And Steady
If you’re intending to transmit on the VHF band, you’re probably going to reach for a handheld or some kind of rackmount rig in your ham shack. But you needn’t …read more Continue reading Get Your Monitor Transmitting VHF with a Browser Tool
[Artificial-Age] has built a rather unique way to play old Game Boy games. It’s an emulator, but it doesn’t work in quite the way you might think! Since the Game …read more Continue reading Building a Headless Game Boy Emulator
The phones! They were one of the basic utilities of the 20th century, and were just about as reliable as death and taxes. Even when then power grid went down, …read more Continue reading Australia’s Nationwide Phone Outage Was An Embarrassing Failure
The TermDriver 2 is a USB-to-serial interface with a twist—it has a built-in screen for displaying relevant information. It can run at anywhere from 100 bit/s to 2Mbit/s, while showing …read more Continue reading Making An LCD UI Look More Like Classic Indicator Lamps
These days there are emulators for all the great consoles of yesteryear, as well as old retrocomputers and arcade machines and so much else to boot. Now, though, a particularly …read more Continue reading Emulating the iPod