Hand soldering of surface mount components is a bread-and-butter task for anyone working with electronics in 2024. So many devices are simply no longer available in the older through-hole formats, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/smd-soldering-without-the-blobs/)

A Practical Guide To Understanding How Radios Work
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/a-practical-guide-to-understanding-how-radios-work/

How may radios do you own? Forget the AM/FM, GMRS/FRS radios you listen to or communicate with. We’re talking about the multiple radios and antennae in your phone, your TV, your …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/a-practical-guide-to-understanding-how-radios-work/)

A Single Transistor Solid State Tesla Coil
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/a-single-transistor-solid-state-tesla-coil/

Tesla coils are one of those builds that capture the interest of almost anybody passing by. For the naïve constructor, they look simple enough, but they can be finicky beasts—beasts …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/a-single-transistor-solid-state-tesla-coil/)

Using Electroadhesion To Reversibly Adhere Metals and Graphite to Hydrogels and Tissues
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/using-electroadhesion-to-reversibly-adhere-metals-and-graphite-to-hydrogels-and-tissues/

The usual way to get biological tissues and materials like gels and metals to stick together is using sutures, adhesives or both. Although this generally works, it’s far from ideal, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/using-electroadhesion-to-reversibly-adhere-metals-and-graphite-to-hydrogels-and-tissues/)

Playing Chess Against Your Printer, with PostScript
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/playing-chess-against-your-printer-with-postscript/

Can you play chess against your printer? The answer will soon be yes, and it’s thanks to [Nicolas Seriot]’s PSChess. It’s a chess engine implemented in PostScript, of all things. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/30/playing-chess-against-your-printer-with-postscript/)

A Threat Level Monitor For Everyone
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/a-threat-level-monitor-for-everyone/

A TV news pundit might on any given evening in 2024 look at the viewers and gravely announce that we are living in uncertain times. Those of us who’ve been …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/a-threat-level-monitor-for-everyone/)

Modular Vacuum Table Custom-Fits The Parts
https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/modular-vacuum-table-custom-fits-the-parts/

[enhydra] needed to modify a bunch of side inserts from some cheap ABS enclosures, and to save time and effort, he created a simple vacuum table with swappable inserts to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/03/31/modular-vacuum-table-custom-fits-the-parts/)