Doppler Module Teardown Reveals the Weird World of Microwave Electronics
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Doppler Module Teardown Reveals the Weird World of Microwave Electronics
Oscillators with components that aren’t electrically connected to anything? PCB traces that function as passive components based solely on their shape? Slots and holes in the board with speci…
Hackaday London Meet-up this Friday
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Hackaday London Meet-up this Friday
Hackaday takes over London at the end of this week. Join us on Friday night as we host a meetup at the Marquis Cornwallis, a pub in Bloomsbury. This is a Bring-a-Hack style meetup, so grab somethin…
If You’re Going To Make A Model Engine, You Might As Well Make It A Merlin
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If You’re Going To Make A Model Engine, You Might As Well Make It A Merlin
It has been remarked before in more than one Hackaday post, that here are many communities like our own that exist in isolation and contain within them an astonishing level of hardware and engineer…
Hack Space Debris At Your Peril
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Hack Space Debris At Your Peril
Who has dibs on space debris? If getting to it were a solved problem, it sure would be fun to use dead orbital hardware as something of a hacker’s junk bin. Turns out there is some precedent …
These Twenty Assistive Technologies Projects Won $1000 In The Hackaday Prize
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These Twenty Assistive Technologies Projects Won $1000 In The Hackaday Prize
Today, we’re excited to announce the winners of the Assistive Technologies portion of The Hackaday Prize. In this round, we’re looking for projects that will help ensure a better qualit…
The components are INSIDE the circuit board
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The Components Are INSIDE The Circuit Board
Through-hole assembly means bending leads on components and putting the leads through holes in the circuit board, then soldering them in place, and trimming the wires. That took up too much space a…
The Things Network Sets 702 km Distance Record For LoRaWAN
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The Things Network Sets 702 km Distance Record For LoRaWAN
Many of us will have at some time over the last couple of years bought a LoRaWAN module or two to evaluate the low power freely accessible wireless networking technology. Some have produced excitin…
Synthesizing Daraprim to Beat Price Gougers
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Synthesizing Daraprim to Beat Price Gougers
Drugs are used the world over to treat disease. However, from time to time, the vagaries of market economics, or unscrupulous action, can radically increase the price of otherwise cheap pharmaceuti…
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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 …