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Akshay, VA7AAX, sent me a link to a truly amazing site. NASA has pulled together a huge amount of data on all the moon landings, and they ha...

http://www.soldersmoke.com 1 April 2009 Rome Marathon Billy climbs Vesuvius! Fixin' up old Toshiba laptop Solar Power from Donuts and Te...

As mentioned in SolderSmoke 104. Check it out! Here is the link: Solder Smoke -- From the Men at Work Collection

Alan, W2AEW, roams the Northeast USA as a Field Application Engineer for Tektronix. This week he sent me an e-mail with some words of wisdo...

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson has countless gems about Marconi. I thought I would share one with you this morning. When Marconi was born o...

Chris Trask, N7ZWY, recommended this book. I'm really enjoying it. Maybe too much: I was reading it on a crowded Rome bus this week, a...

Since we were talking about minimalist computing, I thought you guys would be interested in Steve's homebrewed CPU project, aka the Bi...

My Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CS went toes up in 2006 after many years of service. It died with a horrible grinding sound from the hard disc....

Joan and Eduardo -- the guys who brought us the Flea -- have come up with another very interesting insect: The MOSquito. A single IRF510 d...

Bright sunny morning here in Rome. I was talking to Nigel, M0NDE, on Echolink and he mentioned his efforts to keep his new shack completely...

So all you appliance ops out there using STORE BOUGHT commercial solar panels should hang your heads in shame!

Man, the authorities would DEFINITELY blow this thing up if they found it! Check out Eldon's innovative effort to keep the transistor c...