Open Source High Power EV Motor Controller
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/11/open-source-high-power-ev-motor-controller/
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Open Source High Power EV Motor Controller
For anyone with interest in electric vehicles, especially drives and control systems for EV’s, the Endless-Sphere forum is the place to frequent. It’s full of some amazing projects cove…
Antenna Basics by Whiteboard
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/11/antenna-basics-by-whiteboard/
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Antenna Basics by Whiteboard
Like a lot of people, [Bruce] likes radio controlled (RC) vehicles. In fact, many people get started in electronics motivated by their interest in RC. Maybe that’s why [Bruce] did a video abo…
Relay Computer: You Can Hear It Think
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/11/relay-computer-you-can-hear-it-think/
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/11/relay-computer-you-can-hear-it-think/
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Relay Computer: You Can Hear It Think
Modern digital computers have complex instruction sets that runs on state-of-the-art ALUs which in turn are a consequence of miniaturized logic gates that are built with tiny transistors. These tin…
Pedal-Pi, simple programmable guitar pedal
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/pedal-pi-simple-programmable-guitar-pedal/
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/pedal-pi-simple-programmable-guitar-pedal/
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Pedal-Pi, simple programmable guitar pedal
For several years, [Ray] and [Anna], the team behind ElectroSmash, have been smashing audio electronics and churning out some sweet DIY audio gear. This time around, they’ve built Pedal-Pi &#…
LEGO Prototyping with Tinkercad’s Brick Mode
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/lego-prototyping-with-tinkercads-brick-mode/
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/lego-prototyping-with-tinkercads-brick-mode/
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LEGO Prototyping With Tinkercad’s Brick Mode
[Andrew Sink] made a brief video demonstrating how he imported an STL of the well-known 3D Benchy tugboat model, and instead of sending it to a 3D printer used the Brick Mode feature to make a phys…
Video Streaming Like Your Rapberry Pi Depended On It
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/video-streaming-like-your-rapberry-pi-depended-on-it/
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Video Streaming Like Your Rapberry Pi Depended On It
The Raspberry Pi is an incredibly versatile computing platform, particularly when it comes to embedded applications. They’re used in all kinds of security and monitoring projects to take stil…
Hakko FX-901: Better than TS-100?
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/hakko-fx-901-better-than-ts-100/
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Hakko FX-901: Better than TS-100?
You’ve surely seen the TS-100 soldering iron. It has an OLED display, an ARM processor, and will run with an external battery pack. They are not too pricey, but at $80 or so they aren’t…
Retrotechtacular: Information From The Days When Colour TV Was New
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/retrotechtacular-information-from-the-days-when-colour-tv-was-new/
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Retrotechtacular: Information From The Days When Colour TV Was New
By the time colour TV came to the United Kingdom, it was old news to Americans. Most of the viewing public on the Western side of the Atlantic had had the opportunity to see more than black-and-whi…
Hackaday Prize Entry: Retrofit A Nokia
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/hackaday-prize-entry-retrofit-a-nokia/
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Hackaday Prize Entry: Retrofit A Nokia
The Nokia 3210 is the greatest cell phone ever made. The battery lasted for days, custom color covers were available at every mall kiosk, it had the Snake game, and the chassis for this phone was f…
Think You Know Everything About Soldering?
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/think-you-know-everything-about-soldering/
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/think-you-know-everything-about-soldering/
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Think You Know Everything About Soldering?
[Joshua] has frequent discussions about his soldering techniques with viewers of his YouTube channel. He finally decided to interview [Randy Rubinstein] who is the president of SRA Soldering. In ne…
Sub-$20 Arduino-Based Telemetry System
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/sub-20-arduino-based-telemetry-system/
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/sub-20-arduino-based-telemetry-system/
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Sub-$20 Arduino-Based Telemetry System
[William Osman] set out to prove that unlike expensive commercial data logging rigs, he could get the same results for under twenty bucks. He wanted to build a wireless three-axis accelerometer for…
Wolfram Alpha Shows its Work
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/wolfram-alpha-shows-its-work/
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Wolfram Alpha Shows its Work
The bane of math students everywhere is the teacher asking for you to show your work. If you’ve grown up where a computer is a normal part of school work, that might annoy you since a lot of …
Satellite Tracking With Friends
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/satellite-tracking-with-friends/
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/12/satellite-tracking-with-friends/
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Satellite Tracking With Friends
If you’re in the mood to track satellites, it’s a relatively simple task to look up one of a multitude of websites that can give you a list of satellites visible from your location. How…
Reed Organ MIDI Conversion Tickles All 88 Keys
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/reed-organ-midi-conversion-tickles-all-88-keys/
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Reed Organ MIDI Conversion Tickles All 88 Keys
What did you do in high school? Chances are it wasn’t anywhere near as cool as turning a reed organ into a MIDI device. And even if you managed to pull something like that off, did you do it …
Superconference Speakers Revealed
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/superconference-speakers-revealed/
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Superconference Speakers Revealed
You’ll find the best hardware talks at the Hackaday Superconference. This year, we received over 140 proposals for a few dozen speaking slots. Although we’re still working through the p…
A Noob’s Guide to McMaster-Carr
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/noobs-guide-to-mcmaster-carr/
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A Noob’s Guide to McMaster-Carr
For the penny-pinching basement hacker, McMaster-Carr seems like a weird go-to resource for hardware. For one, they’re primarily a B2B company; and, for two, their prices aren’t cheap. …
Low-Vision Reading Through a Camera’s Eye
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/low-vision-reading-through-a-cameras-eye/
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/low-vision-reading-through-a-cameras-eye/
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Low-Vision Reading Through a Camera’s Eye
Borescope cameras are great inspection tools. They’re flexible, they magnify on a variable scale, and they come with their own lighting. Oh, and they’re pretty cheap, too. Because of al…
In-Band Signaling: Coded Squelch Systems
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/in-band-signaling-coded-squelch-systems/
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/in-band-signaling-coded-squelch-systems/
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In-Band Signaling: Coded Squelch Systems
In the first part of our series on in-band signaling, we discussed one of the most common and easily recognizable forms of audio control, familiar to anyone who has dialed a phone in the last fifty…
Friday Hack Chat: Open Source Startups
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/friday-hack-chat-open-source-startups/
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/13/friday-hack-chat-open-source-startups/
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Friday Hack Chat: Open Source Startups
If you want to found a company, you’ll find pages and pages of advice scattered around the Internet telling you exactly how to do that. What if you want to found an Open Source hardware compa…