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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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  • ESP32 Dashboard Is A Great Way To Stay Informed

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    By Jenny List | June 18, 2025

    The original ESP32 may be a little long in the tooth by now, but it remains a potent tool for connected devices. We were drawn to [Max Pflaum]’s ESP32 Dashboard …read more

  • Just For Laughs: Charlie Douglass And The Laugh Track

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    By Al Williams | June 18, 2025

    I ran into an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots …read more

  • Keeping Snap And Crackle Under Control With Prunt Printer Firmware

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    By Aaron Beckendorf | June 18, 2025

    For quite some time now, Marlin has been the firmware of choice for any kind of custom 3D printer, with only Klipper offering some serious competition in the open-source world. …read more

  • Weighing An Airplane As It Flies Overhead

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    By John Elliot V | June 18, 2025

    Recently, [AlphaPhoenix] weighed an airplane. Normally, that wouldn’t be much of an accomplishment. Except in this case, the airplane happened to be in flight at the time. In fact we’re …read more

  • Capturing Screenshots Using A Fake Printer

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    By Jenny List | June 17, 2025

    If you have very old pieces of analogue test equipment with CRTs on your bench, the chances are they will all have surprisingly similar surrounds to their screens. Back when …read more

  • StatusNotifierItem: How Standard Non-Standards Tear Linux Desktops Apart

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    By Maya Posch | June 17, 2025

    Theoretically when you write a GUI-based application for Linux there are standards to follow, with these all neatly documented over at the Freedesktop website. However, in reality, Freedesktop is more …read more

  • Making A Brushless DC Motor Winding Machine

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    By John Elliot V | June 17, 2025

    Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [Yuchi] is building an STM32 BLDC motor winding machine. This machine is for winding brushless motors because manual winding is highly labor intensive. …read more

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