While for some of us it’s a distant memory, every serious electronics hobbyist must at some point make the leap from working with through-hole components to Surface Mount Devices (SMD). …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/10/pocket-co2-sensor-doubles-as-smd-proving-ground/)

Dial Up a Tune On the Jukephone
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/10/dial-up-a-tune-on-the-jukephone/

What do you do when you find a nice corded phone with giant buttons out in the wild? You could pay $80/month for a landline, use a VOIP or Bluetooth …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/10/dial-up-a-tune-on-the-jukephone/)

Antennas Can Be a Total Mystery
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/10/antennas-can-be-a-total-mystery/

The real action in the world of ham radio is generally in the high frequency bands. Despite the name, these are relatively low-frequency bands by modern standards and the antenna …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/10/antennas-can-be-a-total-mystery/)

How The 2022 CEZ Event Shows The Fragility of Environmental Sensors in High-Risk Areas
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/10/how-the-2022-cez-event-shows-the-fragility-of-environmental-sensors-in-high-risk-areas/

A monitoring station as set up in the CEZ, featuring both the legacy (ARMS) and new wireless monitoring system.
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CEZ_monitoring_station.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CEZ_monitoring_station.jpg?w=800">In what reads somewhat like a convoluted detective story, the events unfolding at the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) in Ukraine during late February had the media channels lighting up with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/10/how-the-2022-cez-event-shows-the-fragility-of-environmental-sensors-in-high-risk-areas/)

Tiny Tape Cartridge Remembered and a Teardown
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/10/tiny-tape-cartridge-remembered-and-a-teardown/

If you want to add sound to something these days, you usually store it digitally. Microcontrollers are cheap and fast, and you can hold a lot of audio on a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/10/tiny-tape-cartridge-remembered-and-a-teardown/)

Dumping Spacecraft In The Middle Of Nowhere
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/11/dumping-spacecraft-in-the-middle-of-nowhere/

The BBC has an interesting article on Point Nemo, AKA the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility, AKA the spacecraft graveyard. This is the place in the ocean that is furthest from …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/11/dumping-spacecraft-in-the-middle-of-nowhere/)

Tiny Linux on a No-MMU RISC-V Microcontroller
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/11/tiny-linux-on-a-no-mmu-risc-v-microcontroller/

In the vast majority of cases, running a Linux-based operating system involves a pretty powerful processor with a lot of memory on hand, and perhaps most importantly, a memory management …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/10/11/tiny-linux-on-a-no-mmu-risc-v-microcontroller/)

Meshtastic and Owntracks to Kick your Google Habit
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/11/meshtastic-and-owntracks-to-kick-your-google-habit/