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Chasing Weather Balloons With Software-Defined Rad...
I’ve never had an interest in pursuing game such as deer or grouse. Hunting was never my thing. But I do enjoy a good t ...
Read MoreI’ve never had an interest in pursuing game such as deer or grouse. Hunting was never my thing. But I do enjoy a good t ...
Read MoreLast year I picked up a Tandy Model 100 at the Vintage Computer Festival East for about US $90. Originally released in 1 ...
Read MoreNormally, when it comes to radio-related projects, my home of New York City is a terrible place to be. If we could see ...
Read MoreThis month we’re celebrating the launch of our second PDF collection of Hands On articles, which IEEE members can downlo ...
Read MoreAccordions come in many shapes. Some have a little piano keyboard while others have a grid of black and white buttons s ...
Read MoreThere is currently a lot of interest in AI tools designed to help programmers write software. GitHub’s Copilot and Amaz ...
Read MoreRussia’s invasion of Ukraine and the skyrocketing fuel prices that ensued last year got me thinking about how to cut do ...
Read MoreLast year for Hands On, I gutted a defunct TRS-80 Model 100. The goal was to upgrade its 24 kilobytes of RAM and 2.4-me ...
Read MoreBrain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, are having a bit of a moment: Big tech companies have invested in the development of ...
Read MoreUPDATE: 16 Feb. 2024: The Flipper Zero continues to give authorities the heebie-jeebies about illicit electronic access ...
Read MoreAs I read the newest papers about DNA-based computing, I had to confront a rather unpleasant truth. Despite being a ...
Read MoreWhile driving home one night recently, I saw a spectacularly bright meteor flash across the sky in front of my car. A ...
Read MoreEastern European Cold War–era computing has a poor reputation. The picture is one of a landscape littered with uninspir ...
Read MoreMy home of Port Townsend in Washington is a community full of arty types and makers. Calls to participate in local cult ...
Read MoreA group of hacker-activists in Nigeria, in the wake of setbacks in the conventional court system, have taken their appea ...
Read MoreI have only once felt an earthquake—in 1985, when a magnitude-4 temblor occurred just north of New York City. It wasn’t ...
Read MoreWhen the home computer revolution arrived, it filled my childhood with fascination and inspired me to study computer e ...
Read MoreMany of us have gotten used to being able to dampen unwanted sound, thanks to the noise-cancellation technology found ...
Read MoreOnce upon a time, if you cracked open the pages of IEEE Spectrum you could spot full-page advertisements for analog comp ...
Read MoreAccurate timing is something that’s always been of interest to me. These days we rely heavily on time delivered to us ov ...
Read MoreSometimes extreme procrastination works in your favor. Procrastination certainly played a role in this month’s Hands On, ...
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