Collaborate Disseminate
A few years back I wrote an “Ask Hackaday” article inviting speculation on the future of the physical plant of landline telephone companies. It started innocently enough; an open telco …read more Continue reading Scrapping the Local Loop, by the Numbers
What was the worst thing about the 70s? Some might say the oil crisis, inflation, or even disco. Others might tell you it was 8-track tapes, no matter what was …read more Continue reading 8-Tracks Are Back? They Are In My House
Hardware hackers come from a variety of backgrounds, but among us there remains a significant number whose taste for making things was forged through growing up in a farm environment. …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: TVO
Normally on “Mining and Refining,” we concentrate on the actual material that’s mined and refined. We’ve covered everything from copper to tungsten, with side trips to more unusual materials like …read more Continue reading Mining and Refining: Fracking
There have been all kinds of wild ideas to get spacecraft into orbit. Everything from firing huge cannons to spinning craft at rapid speed has been posited, explored, or in …read more Continue reading You’ve Probably Never Considered Taking an Airship To Orbit
As our climate changes, we fear that warmer temperatures and drier conditions could make life hard for us. In most locations, it’s a future concern that feels uncomfortably near, but …read more Continue reading The Great Green Wall: Africa’s Ambitious Attempt To Fight Desertification
When things started getting iffy over at Twitter, Mastodon rose as a popular alternative to the traditional microblogging platfrom. In contrast to the walled gardens of other social media channels, …read more Continue reading Your Open-Source Client Options In the non-Mastodon Fediverse
After more than four decades in space and having traveled a combined 44 billion kilometers, it’s no secret that the Voyager spacecraft are closing in on the end of their …read more Continue reading The Computers of Voyager
A little while ago, we talked about the concept of timezones and the Moon. It’s a complicated issue, because on Earth, time is all about the Sun and our local …read more Continue reading NASA Is Now Tasked With Developing A Lunar Time Standard, Relativity Or Not
Another week in football, another VAR controversy to fill the column inches and rile up the fans. If you missed it, Coventry scored a last-minute winner in extra time in …read more Continue reading VAR Is Ruining Football, and Tech Is Ruining Sport