You don’t see them much anymore, but there was a time when any hobbyist who dealt with RF probably had a grid dip meter. The ...

Unlike Texas Instruments, whose graphing calculators have famously not made technological improvements in decades despite ...

Nitrous oxide’s high-speed abilities don’t end with racing cars, as it’s a powerful enough oxidizer to be a practical ...

Many projects on these pages do clever things with video. Whether it’s digital or analogue, it’s certain our community can ...

Have an old Android device collecting dust somewhere that you’d like to put to better use? [Electronoobs] shows us how to ...

Once upon a time, a car phone was a great way to signal to the world that you were better than everybody else. It was a clear ...

If you’ve ever heard the sound of an aircraft passing overhead and looked at an online plane tracker to try and figure out ...

There’s a lot of laboratory equipment out there that the casual hobbyist will never need to use, but that doesn’t mean you ...

Over on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit ...

As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This ...

The concept of building your own hydroelectric generator seems simple at face value: use gravity to impart as much force as ...

Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You turn it on, and the heater starts warming up; ...