Collaborate Disseminate
A recent study in Nature Scientific Reports by Jonathan P. R. Scott and colleagues makes the case for sending exclusively all-female crews on long-duration missions. The reasoning here is simple: women …read more Continue reading Making the Case For All-Female Exploration Missions to Mars and Beyond
Something that probably unites many Hackaday readers is an idle pursuit of browsing AliExpress for new pieces of tech. Perhaps it’s something akin to social media doomscrolling without the induced …read more Continue reading What Is A Schumann Resonance And Why Am I Being Offered A 7.83Hz Oscillator?
Audio in cars has a long history. Car radios in the 1920s were bulky and expensive. In the 1930s, there was the Motorola radio. They were still expensive — a …read more Continue reading Retro Gadgets: I Swear Officer, I was Listening to 45
Beep. We’ve come a long way since June 26, 1974 when the first bar code was scanned at a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. That legendary pack of Juicy Fruit …read more Continue reading Barcodes Enter the Matrix in 2027
It seems like only yesterday that the “Great American Eclipse” swept from coast to coast, and for those who were lucky enough to watch it from along the path of …read more Continue reading Getting Ready for Act 2 of the Great American Eclipse
As the Internet of Things became a mainstream reality, it raised an interesting point about connectivity. We quickly learned it wasn’t ideal to have every light bulb, toaster, and kettle …read more Continue reading Your Guide To Using Amazon’s Sidewalk Network for the Internet of Things
We think of human flight as a relatively modern affair, with a few claims to the first airplane all around the turn of the last century. But people flew much …read more Continue reading Rising to the Occasion: A Brief History of Crewed High Altitude Balloons
We’ve all tangled with unwelcome plant life at one point or another. Whether crabgrass infested your lawn, or you were put on weeding duty in your grandfather’s rose patch, you’ll …read more Continue reading Smoke Some Weeds: Lasers Could Make Herbicide Obsolete
If you ever work with a circuit that controls a decent amount of current, you will often encounter a FET – a Field-Effect Transistor. Whether you want to control a …read more Continue reading FET: The Friendly Efficient Transistor
The Baader-Meinhof effect is the common name for what scientists call frequency illusion. Suppose you are watching Star Trek’s Christopher Pike explain how he makes pasta mama, and you’ve never …read more Continue reading Gen Tojo’s Teeth: Morse Code Shows Up in the Strangest Places