The first example we have of man making music is in prehistoric cave painting in Ariège, in France. It shows a hunter covered with an animal skin, chasing a reindeer. He has a bow, but he is not using it too shoot at the reindeer. He is...

Who are hacktonauts? A hacktonaut is a person interested in matters of make shifting and reverse engineering, using high and low technology. Hence, hacktonautics is the art of navigating and tinkering through DIY, DIWO, and DITO...

Noise-makers and creative minds, If there's one thing I can say about my residency at Radiona, it's that it was a wildly productive and creative blast. Radiona isn't just a simple maker space; it's an electronic paradise. They have everything you...

We can illustrate the movement of sound waves quite simply by studying something we have all done at some time - dropping a stone into a pond.  A stone dropped into a smooth pond causes little ripples - or waves - to radiate out from the centre....

Illustration: Producing a readable message with radio waves After Hertz sent radio waves across a room, nobody very much about it until, in 1894, Oliver Lodge (later Sir Oliver Lodge) transmitted radio waves  a distance of 150 yards.  Hertz...

Illustration: Wave motion, and how a wave is measured If study waves on water, it will help us to understand radio waves, always remembering that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles a second in ether (something which is supposed to be in...