Satellite dish solar cooker bakes potatoes and more
Hone your survival skills by harnessing the sun’s rays to cook your meals. [Robert] and his daughter turned an old satellite dish into a solar cooker. The image above shows them baking some potatoes,...
View ArticleHackaday Links: June 15, 2014
Love the classic brick Game Boy, but hate the low-contrast LCD, terrible battery life, and the inability to play Pokemon Emerald? This one’s just for you. It’s the ultimate DMG Game Boy – a Game Boy...
View ArticleWould You Like a Satellite Dish?
Satellite dishes are a common site these days, although admittedly most of them are Ku- and Ka-band dishes. The older C-band dishes are still around, though, just less frequently in people’s yards....
View ArticleListen to the Sun, Saturn, and the Milky Way with Your Own Radio Telescope
Students from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research combined a commercial satellite dish, a satellite finder and an Arduino, and produced a workable radio telescope. The satellite dish...
View ArticleLiterally Tearing Apart a SpaceX Starlink Antenna
While SpaceX’s constellation of Starlink satellites is nowhere near its projected final size, the company has enough of the birds zipping around in low Earth orbit to start a limited testing period...
View ArticleStarlink Satellite Dish X-Rayed to Unlock RF Magic Inside
When [Kenneth Keiter] took apart his Starlink dish back in November, he did his best to explain the high-level functionality of the incredibly complex device in a video posted to his YouTube channel....
View ArticleMonitor SpaceX Rocket Launches With Software-Defined Radio
The amateur radio community has exploded with activity lately especially in the software-defined radio (SDR) area since it was found that a small inexpensive TV tuner could be wrangled to do what only...
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