Collaborate Disseminate
GPS has been a crucial technology for decades, but it does have its limitations, particularly in urban areas where signals can get noisy. Now, engineers in the Netherlands have developed “SuperGPS” – a hybrid positioning system that combines wireless a… Continue reading “SuperGPS” ditches satellites for radio towers for cm-scale tracking
Plugging in something like an antique radio to see if it works is a good way to have a bad time, because some old components don’t age well. For vintage …read more Continue reading Power Up Vintage Electronics Less Unsafely With a Dim-Bulb Tester
It’s a skill that radio amateurs pick up over years but which it sometimes comes as a surprise to find that is not shared by everyone, the ability to casually …read more Continue reading Identify That Antenna By Sight
It’s a skill that radio amateurs pick up over years but which it sometimes comes as a surprise to find that is not shared by everyone, the ability to casually …read more Continue reading Identify That Antenna By Sight
It’s our great pleasure to announce that Joe [Kingpin] Grand is going to be our keynote speaker at the 2022 Supercon! If you don’t know Joe, he’s a hacker’s hacker. …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Supercon: Joe [Kingpin] Grand Keynote and Workshops Galore
Ever wanted a good, good look at the insides of a 1950s radio, along with fantastic commentary on the internals and the purpose of various components? Then don’t miss [Adam …read more Continue reading Everything You Wanted to See About Restoring a 1956 Radio
Black holes have been seen to chow down on stars that wander too close, resulting in a bright stellar show. But now a black hole has been seen doing something nobody’s ever seen before – it “burped up” material several years after eating a star, leavin… Continue reading Astronomers can’t explain a black hole “burp” years after it ate a star
Older hackers will remember that a crystal set radio receiver was often one of the first projects attempted. Times have changed, but there’s still something magical about gathering invisible signals …read more Continue reading DIY Arduino Due TEA5767 FM Radio
It is a shame that there are fewer and fewer “nerd stores” around. Fry’s is gone. Radio Shack is gone. But the best ones were always the places that had …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Oh Boy! We’re Radio Engineers!
[Mark J Hughes] volunteers as a part of a local community fire watch which coordinates by radio. The La Habra Heights region of Los Angeles is an area of peaks …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Boondock Echo Connects Your Radios with the Cloud