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Troubleshooting a circuit is easy, right? All you need is a couple of hands to hold the probes, another hand to twiddle the knobs, a pair of eyes to look …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Circuit Scout Lends a Hand (Or Two) for Troubleshooting
While the few minutes it takes for a spacecraft’s booster rocket to claw its way out of Earth’s gravity well might be the most obviously hazardous period of the mission, …read more Continue reading ESA’s Jupiter-bound Probe Hits Antenna Snag
[Electronics Old and New] has a new version of one of his old projects. The original project was an active probe. He took what he learned building that probe and …read more Continue reading Active Signal Tracer Probe Has AGC
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
If there’s one this we electronics engineers are precious about, it’s our test gear. The instruments themselves can be obscenely expensive, since all that R&D effort needs to be paid …read more Continue reading 3D Printable Scope Probe Adapts To Your Needs
For anyone that’s fiddled around with a magnifying glass, it’s pretty easy to understand how optical microscopes work. And as microscopes are just an elaboration on a simple hand lens, …read more Continue reading Macro Model Makes Atomic Force Microscopy Easier to Understand
If you do any work with high-speed signals, you quickly realize that probing is an art unto itself. Just having a fast oscilloscope isn’t enough; you’ve got to have probes fast enough to handle the signals you want to see. In this realm, just any old probe won’t do: the …read more
This year was the second SMD challenge at Supercon, so it stands to reason we probably learned a few things from last year. If you aren’t familiar with the challenge, you are served some pretty conventional tools and have to solder a board with LEDs getting progressively smaller until you …read more
Continue reading Supercon SMD Challenge Gets 3D Printed Probes: Build Your Own
It’s already gotten hit with the biggest-ever US child privacy fine, and now it might be facing a fine for GDPR violations. Continue reading TikTok investigated (again) over how it handles children’s data and safety
Do you have an EMC probe in your toolkit? Probably not, unless you’re in the business of electromagnetic compatibility testing or getting a product ready for the regulatory compliance process. Usually such probes are used in anechoic chambers and connected to sophisticated gear like spectrum analyzers – expensive stuff. But …read more
Continue reading A DIY EMC Probe From Semi-Rigid Coax And An SDR