Collaborate Disseminate
For all their talk of cooperation and shared interests, the nations of the world put an awful lot of effort into spying on each other. All this espionage is an …read more Continue reading It’s Numbers All The Way Down With This Tape Measure Number Station Antenna
The number of satellites whizzing by over our heads at any moment is staggering, and growing at a rapid rate as new constellations are launched. But sometimes it’s the old …read more Continue reading A Quick and Easy Tape Measure Turnstile Antenna for MILSAT Snooping
Camera sliders are a great way to get smooth, continuous panning shots. You can buy off the shelf or build yourself a motorized model pretty easily these days. However, [Shivam …read more Continue reading A Hacky Automatic Camera Slider Using No Motors
Amateur radio operators have played a longstanding game of “Will It Antenna?” If there’s something even marginally conductive and remotely resonant, a ham has probably tried to make an antenna …read more Continue reading Just How Good is a Tape Measure Antenna Anyway?
If there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are good at, it’s turning just about anything into an antenna. And hams have a long history of portable operations, too, where …read more Continue reading Wind-Up Tape Measure Transformed into Portable Ham Antenna
If we asked you to rattle off all the tools at your own personal disposal, you’d probably leave your timepieces off the list. But we say clocks are definitely tools — cool tools that come in countless forms and give meaning to endless days.
A clock form we hadn’t considered …read more
Continue reading Watch the Day Inch Along with a Tape Measure Clock
Some tools are so common, so basic, that we take them for granted. A perfect example is the lowly tape measure. We’ve probably all got a few of these kicking around the lab, and they aren’t exactly the kind of thing you give a lot of thought to when you’re …read more