What’s Your SWR? Are You Sure? Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
If you are involved in any sort of radio transmission, you probably have at least...
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Are CRT TVs Important For Retro Gaming? Dave Rowntree | usagoldmines.com
We always thought the older console games looked way better back in the day on...
PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer...
Repairing a Component on a Flex Connector Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
It used to be you could crack open a TV or radio and really work...
How To Make Conductive Tin Oxide Coatings On Glass Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Glass! It’s, uh, not very conductive. And sometimes we like that! But other times, we...
C64 Gets a Graphics Upgrade Courtesy Of Your Favorite Piano Manufacturer Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
The Commodore 64 was quite a machine in its time, though a modern assessment would...
Hackaday Podcast Episode 292: Stainless Steel Benchies, Lego Turing Machines, and a Digital Camera Made of Pure DIY Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
Here we are in October, improbably enough, and while the leaves start to fall as...
The US’s New Nuclear Weapons, Mysterious Fogbanks and Inertial Confinement Fusion Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
Keeping the United States’ nuclear arsenal ready for use is an ongoing process, one which...
This Week in Security: The Internet Archive, Glitching With a Lighter, and Firefox In-the-wild Jonathan Bennett | usagoldmines.com
The Internet Archive has been hacked. This is an ongoing story, but it looks like...
Easily Program RP2040 Boards With Your Android Device Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
You could write your microcontroller code on your desktop PC, or you could do it...
Tiny Drones Do Distributed Mapping Danie Conradie | usagoldmines.com
Sending teams of tiny drones to explore areas and structures is a staple in sci-fi...
Symbolic Nixie Tubes Become Useful For Artistic Purposes Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
When it comes to Nixie tubes, the most common usage these days seems to be...
77,099 Americans Exposed As Financial Giant Leaks Private Customer Information, Discloses Data Breach Daily Hodl Staff | usagoldmines.com
A US financial giant says thousands of customers have had their personal information exposed in...
10th-Largest US Bank Paying $3,100,000,000 Fine in Historic Admission of Guilt After Criminals ‘Dump Piles of Cash’ on Banks’ Counters Daily Hodl Staff | usagoldmines.com
The 10th-largest bank in the US is preparing to pay a $3.1 billion fine after...
Sailing the High Steppes Navarre Bartz | usagoldmines.com
Sails typically bring to mind the high seas, but wind power has been used to...
A Power Supply With Ultra High Resolution Current Measurement Built In Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Need to do some real fine power consumption measurements? was in that exact...
Building A Sound Camera For Under $400 Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
had an idea. He’d heard of motion amplification technology, where cameras are used...
Supercon 2023: Receiving Microwave Signals from Deep-Space Probes Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Here’s the thing about radio signals. There is wild and interesting stuff just getting beamed...
Photochromic Dye Makes Up This Novel Optical Memristor Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
Despite being much in the zeitgeist lately, we have to confess to still being a...
Meet The Optical Data Format You’ve Never Heard Of Before Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
You consider yourself a power user. You’ve got lots of files, and damn it, you...