H2gO Keeps Us from Drying Out
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H2gO Keeps Us from Drying Out
The scientific community cannot always agree on how much water a person needs in a day, and since we are not Fremen, we should give it more thought than we do. For many people, remembering to take …
This Clock is Hard: No Arduino Needed
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This Clock is Hard: No Arduino Needed
You always hear that people talk about the weather. But it seems to us we see more clocks than we do weather stations. A case in point is [frank_scholl’s] clock made from an old hard drive. W…
Turning A Tile Into A Car Tracker
https://hackaday.com/2018/07/29/turning-a-tile-into-a-car-tracker/
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Turning A Tile Into A Car Tracker
A Tile is a small Bluetooth device which you can put on your keychain, for example, so that you can find your keys using an app on your phone. Each Tile’s battery life expectancy is one year …
1950’s AM Transmitter is Fun but Dangerous
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1950’s AM Transmitter is Fun but Dangerous
[Mr. Carlson] bought a Globe Scout Model 40A ham radio transmitter at a hamfest. The 40A was a grand old transmitter full of tubes, high voltage, and a giant transformer. It is really interesting t…
Flexible PCB Becomes The Actuator
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Flexible PCB Becomes The Actuator
An electromagnetic coil gun takes a line of electromagnets working together to form a moving electromagnetic field. These fields accelerate a project and boom, you have electricity moving matter, o…
Vampire Charger is a Rugged Anything-to-5VDC Converter
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Vampire Charger is a Rugged Anything-to-5VDC Converter
USB sockets providing 5 VDC are so ubiquitous as a power source that just about any piece of modern portable technology can use them to run or charge. USB power is so common, in fact, that it’…
Hackaday Links: July 29, 2018
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Hackaday Links: July 29, 2018
Another holy scroll for the Church of Robotron. PoC || GTFO is a semi-annual journal of hardware exploitation, and something you must read. About a year ago, No Starch Press released the first Bibl…
Robot Rovers of the Early Space Race
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Robot Rovers of the Early Space Race
In the early 1970s, the American space program was at a high point, having placed astronauts upon the surface of the moon while their Soviet competitors had not taken them beyond an Earth orbit. It…
The Nitty-Gritty Of Making A Brass Clock
https://hackaday.com/2018/07/29/the-nitty-gritty-of-making-a-brass-clock/
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The Nitty-Gritty Of Making A Brass Clock
Among all the timepieces that we feature here at Hackaday, surprisingly we bring you relatively few clocks. That might seem an incomprehensible statement given the plethora of, well, clocks, that a…
Amiga Repairs Put One Tough Little Machine Back in Service
https://hackaday.com/2018/07/30/amiga-repairs-put-one-tough-little-machine-back-in-service/
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Amiga Repairs Put One Tough Little Machine Back in Service
Returning a piece of retro hardware to factory condition is generally a labor of love for the restorationist. A repair, on the other hand, is more about getting a piece of equipment back into servi…
Side Channel Attacks Against Mixed Signal Microcontrollers
https://hackaday.com/2018/07/30/side-channel-attacks-against-mixed-signal-microcontrollers/
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Side Channel Attacks Against Mixed Signal Microcontrollers
You shouldn’t transmit encryption keys over Bluetooth, but that’s exactly what some popular wireless-enabled microcontrollers are already doing. This is the idea behind Screaming Channe…
Hands-On: AND!XOR DEF CON 26 Badge
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Video Review: AND!XOR DEF CON 26 Badge
The AND!XOR team have somehow managed to outdo themselves once again this year. Their newest unofficial hardware badge for DEF CON 26 just arrived. It’s a delightful creation in hardware, sof…
A Stereo Tube Amp For Less Than $5
https://hackaday.com/2018/07/30/a-stereo-tube-amp-for-less-than-5/
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A Stereo Tube Amp For Less Than $5
Many of us have aspirations of owning a tube amp. Regardless of the debate on whether or not tube audio is nicer to listen to, or even if you can hear the difference at all, they’re gorgeous …
Hands-On with New Arduino FPGA Board: MKR Vidor 4000
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Hands-On with New Arduino FPGA Board: MKR Vidor 4000
Hackaday brought you a first look the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 when it announced. Arduino sent over one of the first boards so now we finally have our hands on one! It’s early and the documenta…
A Crystal Oscillator For A Stable Bench Reference
https://hackaday.com/2018/07/30/a-crystal-oscillator-for-a-stable-bench-reference/
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A Crystal Oscillator For A Stable Bench Reference
[Paul] likes a precise oscillator. His recent video shows a crystal oscillator with a “watch crystal” and a CMOS counter, the CD4060. Using such a circuit can produce very stable freque…
Vintage Silvertone Cabinet Gets Bluetooth Treatment
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Vintage Silvertone Cabinet Gets Bluetooth Treatment
This Bluetooth speaker is full of delightful surprises. The outer shell is an antique radio cabinet, but its practically empty interior is a combination of Dead Bug circuitry and modern BT receiver…
Building the Terminator’s Arm
https://hackaday.com/2018/07/31/building-the-terminators-arm/
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Building the Terminator’s Arm
The Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 Terminator is a highly capable robot that happens to look an awful lot like Arnold Schwarzenegger. It boasts an advanced metallic endoskeleton, which has been the i…
Add-On Board Brings Xbox 360 Controllers to N64
https://hackaday.com/2018/07/31/add-on-board-brings-xbox-360-controllers-to-n64/
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Add-On Board Brings Xbox 360 Controllers to N64
Many of the games released on the Nintendo 64 have aged remarkably well, in fact a number of them are still considered must-play experiences to this day. But the years have not been so kind to the …
Kepler Planet Hunter Nears End of Epic Journey
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Kepler Planet Hunter Nears End of Epic Journey
The Kepler spacecraft is in the final moments of its life. NASA isn’t quite sure when they’ll say their last goodbye to the space telescope which has confirmed the existence of thousand…
The Precise Science Of Whacking A Wine Glass
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The Precise Science Of Whacking A Wine Glass
It’s common knowledge that tapping a wine glass produces a pitch which can be altered by adjusting the level of the tipple of choice inside. By filling twelve glasses with different amounts o…