Hackaday Links: February 2, 2025
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All things considered, it was a very bad week for aviation here in the United States. Three separate crashes, two of which involved US military aircraft, have left over 70 …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/hackaday-links-february-2-2025/)

How the Main Frame Became the Mainframe: an Etymological Dissertation
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In his most recent article, [Ken Shirriff] takes a break from putting ASICs under a microscope, and instead does the same in a proverbial manner with the word ‘mainframe’. Although …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/how-the-main-frame-became-the-mainframe-an-etymological-dissertation/)

Do, Dare or Don’t? Getting Inked by a 3D Printer
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This unusual tattoo hack by [Emily The Engineer] is not for the weak of heart, but let’s be frank: we kind of know her for that. And she gives out …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/do-dare-or-dont-getting-inked-by-a-3d-printer/)

Stepper Motor Operating Principle and Microstepping Explained
https://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/stepper-motor-operating-principle-and-microstepping-explained/

The [Denki Otaku] YouTube channel took a look recently at some stepper motors, or ‘stepping motors’ as they’re called in Japanese. Using a 2-phase stepper motor as an example, the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/stepper-motor-operating-principle-and-microstepping-explained/)

BLE Rain Gauge Sips Water and Batteries
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It isn’t that hard to make an electronic rain gauge if you have a steady source of power or you don’t mind changing batteries often. But [Matthew Ford] offers a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/ble-rain-gauge-sips-water-and-batteries/)

USB Hub-A-Dub-Dub: Weird Edge Cases Are My Ruin
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The Universal Serial Bus. The one bus to rule them all.  It brought peace and stability to the world of computer peripherals. No more would Apple and PC users have to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/03/usb-hub-a-dub-dub-weird-edge-cases-are-my-ruin/)

A Cordless Soldering Iron With A Difference
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