Collaborate Disseminate
Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need …read more Continue reading Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back To Phones If The EU Gets Its Way
The US Senate has approved the “Sunshine Protection Act”, a bill to make Daylight Saving time the default time and do away with the annual time changes. While I can …read more Continue reading High Noon for Daylight Savings Time
There are a lot of common phrases that no longer mean what they used to. For example, you may have used the term “turn on the lights.” What are you …read more Continue reading Tech In Plain Sight: Car Doors
An abiding memory for a teen fascinated by electronics and radio in the 1970s and 1980s is the proliferation of propaganda stations that covered the shortwave spectrum. Some of them …read more Continue reading Owning A ShortWave Radio Is Once Again A Subversive Activity
It seems there’s a service for everything, but sometimes you simply learn more by doing it yourself. If you haven’t enjoyed the somewhat anachronistic pleasures of running your own server …read more Continue reading Run Your Own Server for Fun (and Zero Profit)
Scientists estimate that approximately 900 species have gone extinct in the last five centuries alone, to say nothing of the thousands or millions that vanished from life in the billions …read more Continue reading The Tasmanian Tiger’s Comeback Tour, Powered By Science
Every high school physics student knows c, or the speed of light, it’s 3 x 10^8 metres per second. More advanced or more curious students will know that this is an …read more Continue reading How Did We Get To The Speed Of Light?
Tales of Raspberry Pi SD card corruption are available online by the fistful, and are definitely a constant in Pi-adjacent communities. It’s apparent that some kind of problems tend to …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption
Early in the morning of February 24th, Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at California’s Middlebury Institute of International Studies watched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in realtime with troop movements …read more Continue reading The Invisible Battlefields of the Russia-Ukraine War
Spacecraft rocket engines come in a variety of forms and use a variety of fuels, but most rely on chemical reactions to blast propellants out of a nozzle, with the …read more Continue reading Ion Thrusters: Not Just For TIE Fighters Anymore