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Retrotechtacular: How Not To Use Hand Tools | Hackaday
Whatever you’re doing with your hand tools, by the US Army’s lights, you’re probably doing it wrong. That seems to be the “Green Machine’s” attitude on pliers an…
Upgrading A Cheap LX-2BUPS UPS Board To Fix Fatal Flaws | Hackaday
Cheap uninterruptable power supply (UPS) boards that take Li-ion cells of some description seem to have cropped up everywhere the past years. Finding use in applications such as keeping single-boar…
Non Contact Scope Probe Costs Nearly Nothing | Hackaday
[IMSAI Guy] wants you to build a non-contact scope probe. The cost? Assuming you have a bit of wire and a regular scope probe, it won’t cost you anything. Why do you want such a thing? You ca…
Retrogadgets: The Ageia PhysX Card | Hackaday
Old computers meant for big jobs often had an external unit to crunch data in specific ways. A computer doing weather prediction, for example, might have an SIMD (single instruction multiple data) …
Spend An Hour In The Virtual Radio Museum | Hackaday
You have an hour to kill, and you like old communication technology. If you happen to be in Windsor, Connecticut, you could nip over to the Vintage Radio and Communication Museum. If you aren’…
The Computers Of Voyager | Hackaday
After more than four decades in space and having traveled a combined 44 billion kilometers, it’s no secret that the Voyager spacecraft are closing in on the end of their extended interstellar…
MIDI Bookmark Marks The Spot Where Work And Play Intersect | Hackaday
Have you ever wanted to take a break from reading or studying to just rock out for a few blissful minutes? If you’re anything like us, you like to rock out most of the time and take the occas…
The History Of The World’s First Planetarium | Hackaday
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the idea of a planetarium originated with an electrical engineer, [Oskar von Miller] from the Deutsches Museum in Munich. According to [Allison Marsh] in IEEE …
A Portable DLNA Server Hack Helps You Tame OpenWRT | Hackaday
A good amount of hacks can be done with off-the-shelf hardware – what’s more, it’s usually available all over the world, which means your hacks are easier to build for others, too…
Poking Atomic Nuclei With Lasers For Atomic Clocks And Energy Storage | Hackaday
Although most people are probably familiar with the different energy levels that the electron shells of atoms can be in and how electrons shedding excess energy as they return to a lower state emit…
Hackaday Links: May 5, 2024 | Hackaday
It may be hard to believe, but BASIC turned 60 this week. Opinions about the computer language vary, of course, but one thing everyone can agree on is that Professors Kemeny and Kurtz really stretc…
This Windows Installer Installs Linux | Hackaday
It may be a very long time since some readers have installed a copy of Windows, but it appears at one point during the installation there’s a step that asks you which OS version you would lik…
Building A Rocket Engine From Scratch | Hackaday
There is a reason building a rocket engine is harder than most things you want to build. If you are building, say, a car, your goal is to not have it explode. If you are building a bomb, you want t…
Hive Monitor Is The Bee’s Knees | Hackaday
Beekeeping is quite the rewarding hobby. There’s delicious honey and useful wax to be had, plus you get the honor of knowing that you’re helping to keep the bee population surviving and…
This Robot Picks Locks, If You’re Very Patient | Hackaday
We all know the Hollywood trope of picking a lock with a paperclip, and while it certainly is doable, most reputable locks require slightly more sophisticated tools to pick effectively. That’…
Dune 3D: Open Source 3D Parametric Modeler From The Maker Of Horizon EDA | Hackaday
When coming from the world of Autodesk and kin’s proprietary CAD solutions, figuring out which FOSS 3D CAD solution is the right one can be a real chore, as none of them are on the same level…
RISC OS Gets An Update | Hackaday
There should be rejoicing among fans of the original ARM operating system this week, as the venerable RISC OS received its version 5.30 update. It contains up-to-date versions of the bundled softwa…
Giving Your KiCad PCB Repository Pretty Pictures | Hackaday
Publishing your boards on GitHub or GitLab is a must, and leads to wonderful outcomes in the hacker world. On their own, however, your board files might have the repo look a bit barren; having a pi…
Ham Radio Paddles Cost Virtually Nothing | Hackaday
If you don’t know Morse code, you probably think of a radio operator using a “key” to send Morse code. These were — and still are — used. They are little more than a s…
3D Printing In Custom PLA With A TPU Core | Hackaday
[Stefan] from CNC Kitchen explored an unusual approach to a multi-material print by making custom PLA filament with a TPU core to make it super-tough. TPU is a flexible filament whereas PLA is hard…
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