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Before the digital age, when transistors were expensive, unreliable, and/or nonexistent, engineers had to use other tricks to do things that we take for granted nowadays. Motor positioning, for example, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/investigating-electromagnetic-magic-in-obsolete-machines/)
If you’re like most makers, you have a few product ideas kicking about, but you may not have made it all the way to production of those things. If you’re …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/making-products-for-fun-and-probably-no-profit/)
A PCB ruler is a common promotional item, or design exercise. Usually they have some sample outlines and holes as an aid to PCB design, but sometimes they also incorporate …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/05/this-thermometer-rules/)
While we aren’t heavy-duty woodworkers, we occasionally make some sawdust as part of a project, and we admire people who know how to make wood and do what they want. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/a-tube-the-wooden-kind/)
You know, it’s a tale as old as custom mechanical keyboards. [penkia] couldn’t find any PCBs with 36 keys and Gateron low-profile switch footprints, so they made their own and …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/lorem-ipsum-36-dolor-sit-amet-keyboard/)
Like the lead paint and asbestos of decades past, microplastics are the new awful contaminant that we really ought to do something about. They’re particularly abundant in the aquatic environment, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/02/06/how-do-we-deal-with-microplastics-in-the-ocean/)