A CRT Display for Retro Weather Forecasting
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/a-crt-display-for-retro-weather-forecasting/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/a-crt-display-for-retro-weather-forecasting/
It would be hard to find any electronics still in production which use CRT displays, but for some inscrutable reason it’s easy to find cheap 4-inch CRTs on AliExpress. Not …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/a-crt-display-for-retro-weather-forecasting/)
Pulling Back the Veil, Practically
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/pulling-back-the-veil-practically/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/pulling-back-the-veil-practically/
In a marvelous college lecture in front of a class of engineering students, V. Hunter Adams professed his love for embedded engineering, but he might as well have been singing …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/pulling-back-the-veil-practically/)
Building a Wireless Motorized Fader For Lighting Control
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/building-a-wireless-motorized-fader-for-lighting-control/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/building-a-wireless-motorized-fader-for-lighting-control/
Motorized faders are very cool, and you can find them in everything from expensive mixing desks to high-end video editing decks. If you want to build your own wireless motorized …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/building-a-wireless-motorized-fader-for-lighting-control/)
Hot Rod Backyard Bath on Steel Spring Legs
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/hot-rod-backyard-bath-on-steel-spring-legs/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/hot-rod-backyard-bath-on-steel-spring-legs/
In a fusion of scrapyard elegance and Aussie ingenuity, [Mark Makies] has given a piece of old steel a steamy second life with his ‘CastAway Tub’. Call it a bush …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/hot-rod-backyard-bath-on-steel-spring-legs/)
ESPer-CDP Plays CDs and Streams in Style
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/esper-cdp-plays-cds-and-streams-in-style/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/esper-cdp-plays-cds-and-streams-in-style/
What do you get when you combine an ESP32, a 16-bit DAC, an antique VFD, and an IDE CD-ROM drive? Not much, unless you put in the work, which [Akasaka …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/esper-cdp-plays-cds-and-streams-in-style/)
Can We Replace a Program Counter with a Linear-Feedback Shift Register? Yes We Can!
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/can-we-replace-a-program-counter-with-a-linear-feedback-shift-register-yes-we-can/
https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/can-we-replace-a-program-counter-with-a-linear-feedback-shift-register-yes-we-can/
Today we heard from [Richard James Howe] about his new CPU. This new 16-bit CPU is implemented in VHDL for an FPGA. The really cool thing about this CPU is …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/can-we-replace-a-program-counter-with-a-linear-feedback-shift-register-yes-we-can/)
Since the tail end of World War II, humanity has struggled to deal with its newfound ability to harness the tremendous energy in the nucleus of the atom. Of course …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/05/31/disarming-a-nuke-twice/)