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Crowdsourcing SIGINT: Ham Radio At War

I often ask people: What’s the most important thing you need to have a successful fishing trip? I get a lot of different answers about bait, equipment, and boats. Some …read more

Network Infrastructure And Demon-Slaying: Virtualization Expands What A Desktop Can Do

The original DOOM is famously portable — any computer made within at least the last two decades, including those in printers, heart monitors, passenger vehicles, and routers is almost guaranteed …read more

Reconductoring: Building Tomorrow’s Grid Today

What happens when you build the largest machine in the world, but it’s still not big enough? That’s the situation the North American transmission system, the grid that connects power …read more

Is The Atomic Outboard An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Everyone these days wants to talk about Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) when it comes to nuclear power. The industry seems to have pinned its hopes for a ‘nuclear renaissance’ on …read more

Information Density: Microfilm And Microfiche

Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decades, this wasn’t …read more

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  • Add TouchTone Typing To Your Next Project

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    By Al Williams | June 23, 2025

    The Blackberry made phones with real keyboards popular, and smartphones with touch keyboards made that input method the default. However, the old flip phone crowd had just a few telephone …read more

  • Modern Tech Meets Retro 7-Segment

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    By Matt Varian | June 23, 2025

    At one point in time mechanical seven segment displays were ubiquitous, over time many places have replaced them with other types of displays. [Sebastian] has a soft spot for these …read more

  • Casting Time: Exploded Watch In Resin

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    By Matt Varian | June 23, 2025

    We’ve all seen the exploded view of complex things, which CAD makes possible, but it’s much harder to levitate parts in their relative positions in the real world. That, however, …read more

  • Keep Track Of The Compost With LoRaWAN

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    By Tyler August | June 23, 2025

    Composting doesn’t seem difficult: pile up organic matter, let it rot. In practice, however, it’s a bit more complicated– if you want that sweet, sweet soil amendment in a reasonable …read more

  • Video Game Preservation Through Decompilation

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    By Tom Nardi | June 23, 2025

    Unlike computer games, which smoothly and continuously evolved along with the hardware that powered them, console games have up until very recently been constrained by a generational style of development. …read more

  • Head To Print Head: CNC Vs FDM

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    By Tyler August | June 23, 2025

    It’s a question new makers often ask: “Should I start with a CNC machine or a 3D Printer?”– or, once you have both, every project gets the question “Should I …read more

  • Eulogy For The Satellite Phone

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    By Al Williams | June 23, 2025

    We take it for granted that we almost always have cell service, no matter where you go around town. But there are places — the desert, the forest, or the …read more

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