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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Fission Simulator Melts Down RP2040

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By Tyler August | June 19, 2025

We’ve seen a lot of projects based on the Pi Pico, but a nuclear reactor simulation is a new one. This project was created by [Andrew Shim], [Tyler Wisniewski] and …read more
Dual RGB Cameras Get Depth Sensing Powerup

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By Donald Papp | June 19, 2025

It’s sometimes useful for a system to not just have a flat 2D camera view of things, but to have an understanding of the depth of a scene. Dual RGB …read more
Hacker Tactic: ESD Diodes

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By Arya Voronova | June 19, 2025

A hacker’s view on ESD protection can tell you a lot about them. I’ve seen a good few categories of hackers neglecting ESD protection – there’s the yet-inexperienced ones, ones …read more
Game Boy? NES? Why Not Both!

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By Jenny List | June 19, 2025

If you’re a retro Nintendo fan you can of course carry a NES and a Game Boy around with you, but the former isn’t very portable. Never fear though, because …read more
Space-Based Datacenters Take The Cloud Into Orbit

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By Tyler August | June 19, 2025

Where’s the best place for a datacenter? It’s an increasing problem as the AI buildup continues seemingly without pause. It’s not just a problem of NIMBYism; earthly power grids are …read more
Flopped Humane “AI Pin” Gets An Experimental SDK

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By Donald Papp | June 19, 2025

The Humane AI Pin was ambitious, expensive, and failed to captivate people between its launch and shutdown shortly after. While the units do contain some interesting elements like the embedded …read more
Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets Made With DIY Ball Mill

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By Maya Posch | June 19, 2025

Creating strong permanent magnets without using so-called rare earth elements is an ongoing topic of research. An interesting contestant here are iron nitride magnets (α”-Fe16N2), which have the potential to …read more

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