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  Last month I was talking to Ira VP2EIH on my new 1712 SSB rig.  Ira is interested in satellites.  Talking to him caused me to dig up some ...

Move over Michigan Mighty Mite and Mate for the Mighty Midget.   There's a new M^3 in town.  And it is SMALL.  Hack-A-Day had an article...

Bill's uBITX with HB keys and the mic that used to be the podcast mic!  SolderSmoke Podcast #216 is available  21 December 2019 ...

I've been working with an Arduino today.  Seeing this video makes me feel like such an APPLIANCE OPERATOR.  FB OM!  No store-bought my...

A New Direction for SolderSmoke Introducing Our New Podcast:  “WireWrapRap” Attentive listeners have probably noticed that f...

Greetings Bill I have been a bit ill,  but finally found some time to work on my Meara Mighty Mite, which i wish to c...

Dave W2DAB got his Manhattan Mighty Mite oscillating nicely!  Hooray!   Check out Dave's report on his Mighty Mite adventure:  htt...

Note the discrete BJT transistor T-shirt.  Note the haunted, obsessed look in his eyes.  This fellow is building a computer out of disc...

http://www.economist.com/node/21576780 Our book: "SolderSmoke -- Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics" http://soldersmoke.c...

From: Paul Darlington  Subject: Multi-mode QRSS beacon on the Raspberry Pi To: "Bill Meara"  Date: Sunday, January 20, 2013, 8:...

Too bad the Raspberry Pi board is a bit too big for our beloved Altoids tins.  It would have been a very fitting match:  British board in ...

From the site: I understood these computers well, but the processor itself was still a mystery. I wanted to understand that part too, at th...

I foolishly thought I could just open that baby up and work on it like the old serial port cables. I have been told (many, many times) that...

Take a walk down (low) memory lane... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320699873588&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

Ron Barrett Apparently Pluto's demotion from planet status might have been a bit unfair. Researchers say that the rival to Pluto that wa...

Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo . Embedded controllers may seem a bit far afield for SolderSmoke. After all, ...

You guys have to see this. These guys have opened up some old CPU chips and have drawn the circuit diagrams for all the transistors. Then ...

I must say, this was one of the strangest repair jobs I've ever had: You may have heard the background: My wife's three year-old S...

In a recent podcast I asked for help with my wife's ailing Sony Vaios computer. The graphics card has gone toes up. Sony acknowledges ...

Well, it turns out that yesterday was a GREAT day for a new receiver. When I got home from work 30 meters was open. I fired up the new rec...