Bryan Cockfield

When most radio enthusiasts start trying to pick up signals from satellites, they might put together a quick-and-dirty Yagi antenna and try to catch a repeater as is passes overhead, or they might grab a small unused dish from a satellite TV service and point it up at a weather satellite by hand to try to decode some of the data coming down. But [Cranktown City] had a different approach. He found an eight-foot dish online

For as many sensors, cameras, and computers as there are on modern cars, they ought to be a dream to poke around in and customize to one's liking. Unfortunately they're generally plagued by the same locked-down, proprietary software that most consumer electronics ship with, making it very difficult to interact with these systems in ways the manufacturer doesn't approve of. There are a few exceptions to this rule, though, and [Sasha] built this system which

One of the major limits of mass-produced batteries is the electrolyte. From lead-acid to lithium ion, there's some temperature where the electrolyte will freeze and cause all sorts of problems, from cracked casings to various non-favorable chemical changes in the battery itself. But if there' a solid electrolyte available, many of the downsides of charging and discharging batteries in extreme cold disappear.

The style and sound of older video games is unique enough that they're still copied in relatively modern games like Undertale Celeste , or Shovel

These days we take high-speed networking for granted, but it can be difficult to get vintage computers talking to modern machines. To help solve this problem [jaime] came up with Meatloaf which can provide files to a Commodore regardless of their location or medium of storage.

Some of the first remote controls available to consumers used sound, visible light, or even just wires to communicate with their parent device. It was many years between these first rudimentary remotes before they standardized around infrared or RF signaling. Even then it was a while before remote controls were reliable enough to not have to think about anymore. They've gotten so good now that there are

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) allows Linux systems to function as hypervisors without needing any extra software, but VMs created with it don't behave exactly like real hardware does. Sometimes that's important, though, so [sandwich] built

A few years ago, [Smashcat] ported a ZX Spectrum game called Manic Miner to the Arduino Uno.

Although not technically the first virtual pet, the Tamagotchi handhelds certainly popularized the idea and made it a worldwide phenomenon. In the late 90s it was hard to go out in public and not see them dangling from backpacks and belt loops. They turned out to be more than a passing fad, too. There have been Tamagotchis in various forms since then, and one of the latest, the Tamagotchi Paradise,

Although once little more than an academic endeavor, the RISC-V architecture is slowly supplanting applications that would have normally gone to ARM. Even a few microcontrollers have chips running this open-source instruction set now, and we expect it to grow in the future since it doesn't require the licensing of an ARM or x86 chip. [M_Jagadeesh97] is getting ahead of the curve with