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Our homes are full of technological marvels, and, as a Hackaday reader, we are betting you know the basic ideas behind a microwave oven even if you haven’t torn one …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: Microwave Ovens
[Curious Droid] is back with a history lesson on one of the most important inventions of the 20th century: The cavity magnetron. Forged in the fighting of World War II, …read more Continue reading The Device that Won WW2: A History of the Cavity Magnetron
Historians may note that World War II was the last great “movie war.” In those days, you could do many things that are impossible today, yet make for great movie …read more Continue reading Ku-Go: The World War II Death Ray
Snooping in on satellites is getting to be quite popular, enough so that the number of people advancing the state of the art — not to mention the wealth of …read more Continue reading Using an Old Satellite to See the Earth in a New Light
Using microwave instruments to peer deep beneath the surface of the far side of the Moon, researchers have detected a ‘hotspot’ they say is a large subsurface granite mass, suggesting the Moon is more “Earth-like” than we thought.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Granite discovery suggests Moon is more “Earth-like” than we thought
Washington is interested in the weapons but worries they’ll end up in the ‘valley of death’ if the Pentagon isn’t careful. Continue reading The Pentagon Is Spending $1 Billion a Year on ‘Directed Energy Weapons’
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has countered the emerging threat of drone swarms, using the Tactical High-power Operational Responder (THOR) to take out multiple targets.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: US Air Force, drones… Continue reading THOR microwave weapon hammers drone swarms in demo test
While there is water on the Moon, it’s not kept in convenient reservoirs, it’s locked away in the lunar soil. Now, a team of scientists has found that thirsty astronauts could one day refresh themselves fairly easily – by throwing a cup of Moon dirt in… Continue reading Thirsty astronauts could just throw some Moon dust in the microwave
There’s something of a mystique about RF construction at the higher frequencies, it’s seen as a Black Art only practiced by elite wizards. In fact, UHF and microwave RF circuitry …read more Continue reading The Cheap And Available Microwave Playground
Fair warning: if you’re going to try to mold uranium glass in a microwave kiln, you might want to not later use the oven for preparing food. Just a thought. …read more Continue reading Nuke Your Own Uranium Glass Castings in the Microwave