Split keyboards are becoming more popular, but because they’re still relatively niche, they can be rather expensive if you ...

The Pomdoro technique of time management has moved on a little from the tomato-shaped kitchen timer which gave it a name, as ...

We recently got a note in the tips line from [Tavis Gustafson], who is one of the developers of Tronbyt — a replacement ...

Tektronix must have been quite a place to work back in the 1980s. The company offered a bewildering selection of test ...

How do you get images downlinked from 30 km up? Hams might guess SSTV — slow scan TV — and that’s the approach ...

When the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) amateur radio satellite was launched in 1974, its expected lifespan was about five years. The plucky little satellite made it to 1981 when a battery failure caused it ...

We ran a story about a wall-mounted plotter bot this week, Mural. It’s a simple, but very well implemented, take on a theme that we’ve seen over and over again in various forms. Two lines, or in ...

Radio waves travel fast, and they can bounce, too. If you are able to operate a 25-meter dish, a transmitter, a solid ...

This week, researchers from Wiz Research released a series of vulnerabilities in the Kubernetes Ingress NGINX Controller ...

You might think you don’t need a hearing aid, and you might be right. But in general, hearing loss eventually comes to all of ...

[ombates] shares a step-by-step method for making a conductive bio-string from scratch, no fancy equipment required. She ...

Printed circuit boards were once so simple. One or two layers of copper etched on a rectangular fiberglass substrate, with a ...