{"id":1643,"date":"2023-02-01T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/01\/curious-marcs-lab-and-workshop\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:26","slug":"curious-marcs-lab-and-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/01\/curious-marcs-lab-and-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious Marc&#8217;s Lab and Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qwocVH3_1Eo?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>This is the guy who has done all the amazing videos on the Apollo communications systems. And a lot more. <\/b><b>This look at his lab is inspirational. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>There is so much to see here. But a couple of things really caught my attention: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>All of the RF electronics in the Apollo spacecraft was made with discrete components &#8212; the only chips in the spacecraft were in the computer. And in the Apollo systems, they welded the discrete components in. No soldering. Welding. That&#8217;s hardcore. That is how they got to the Moon. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Curious Marc&#8217;s YouTube channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CuriousMarc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CuriousMarc<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the guy who has done all the amazing videos on the Apollo communications systems. And a lot more. This look at his lab is inspirational. There is so much to see here. But a couple of things really caught my attention: All of the RF electronics in the Apollo spacecraft was made with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/01\/curious-marcs-lab-and-workshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Curious Marc&#8217;s Lab and Workshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,32,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-history","category-space-program","category-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11324,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/11324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}