Everyone knows that the perfect capacitor to decouple the power rails around ICs is a 100 nF ceramic capacitor or equivalent, ...

Not too far away from where this is being written is one of Uncle Sam’s NATO outposts, a satellite earth station for their ...

Just when you think you’ve learned all the latest 3D printing tricks, [TenTech] shows up with an update to their Fuzzyficator ...

Around two years ago, the world was inundated with news about how generative AI or large language models would revolutionize ...

At the height of the Cold War, those of us on the western side of the wall had plenty of choice over our radio listening, ...

Do they teach networking history classes yet? Or is it still too soon? I was reading [Al]’s first installment of the ...

One of the more popular activities in the ham radio world is DXing, which is attempting to communicate with radio stations as ...

It is a fact of life that 3D printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and imperfect layer bonding, but you ...

At some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, you’ve either got to increase ...

The late 1990s saw the widespread introduction of solid-state storage based around NAND Flash. Ranging from memory cards for portable devices to storage for desktops and laptops, the data storage ...

Much has been written about the demise of physical media. Long considered the measure of technological progress in audiovisual and computing fields, the 2000s saw this metric seemingly rendered ...

For those of us who remember Radio Shack as more than just an overpriced cell phone store, a lot of the nostalgia for the retailer boils down to the brands on offer. Remember the Realistic line of ...