Some slicers have introduced brick layers, and more slicers plan to add them. Until that happens, you can use this new script from [Geek Detour] to get brick layer goodness …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/3d-printed-brick-layers-for-everyone/)
Relativity Space Changes Course on Path to Orbit
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/relativity-space-changes-course-on-path-to-orbit/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/relativity-space-changes-course-on-path-to-orbit/
In 2015, Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone founded Relativity Space around an ambitious goal: to be the first company to put a 3D printed rocket into orbit. While additive manufacturing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/relativity-space-changes-course-on-path-to-orbit/)
Build Your Own Air Mouse, Okay?
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/build-your-own-air-mouse-okay/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/build-your-own-air-mouse-okay/
Are you using a desk mouse like some kind of… normal computer user? Why, beg the heavens? For you could be using an air mouse, of your very own creation! [Misfit …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/build-your-own-air-mouse-okay/)
Ask Hackaday: What Would You Do With the World’s Smallest Microcontroller?
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/ask-hackaday-what-would-you-do-with-the-worlds-smallest-microcontroller/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/ask-hackaday-what-would-you-do-with-the-worlds-smallest-microcontroller/
It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and perhaps …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/ask-hackaday-what-would-you-do-with-the-worlds-smallest-microcontroller/)
Repairing a Legendary Elka Synthex Analog Synthesizer
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/repairing-a-legendary-elka-synthex-analog-synthesizer/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/repairing-a-legendary-elka-synthex-analog-synthesizer/
Somehow, an Elka Synthex analog synthesizer made it onto [Mend it Mark]’s repair bench recently. It had a couple of dud buttons, and some keys produced the wrong tone. Remember, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/repairing-a-legendary-elka-synthex-analog-synthesizer/)
Recreating A Braun Classic With 3D Printing
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/recreating-a-braun-classic-with-3d-printing/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/recreating-a-braun-classic-with-3d-printing/
Braun was once a mighty pillar of industrial design; a true titan of the mid-century era. Many of the company’s finest works have been forgotten outside of coffee table books …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/recreating-a-braun-classic-with-3d-printing/)
Turning Down the Noise on SMPS
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/turning-down-the-noise-on-smps/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/turning-down-the-noise-on-smps/
On paper, electricity behaves in easy-to-understand, predictable ways. That’s mostly because the wires on the page have zero resistance and the switching times are actually zero, whereas in real life …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/turning-down-the-noise-on-smps/)
Current Mirrors Tame Common Mode Noise
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/current-mirrors-tame-common-mode-noise/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/current-mirrors-tame-common-mode-noise/
If you’re the sort who finds beauty in symmetry – and I’m not talking about your latest PCB layout – then you’ll appreciate this clever take on the long-tailed pair. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/current-mirrors-tame-common-mode-noise/)
Simple Robot Assembled From E-Waste Actually Looks Pretty Cool
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/simple-robot-assembled-from-e-waste-actually-looks-pretty-cool/
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/17/simple-robot-assembled-from-e-waste-actually-looks-pretty-cool/