Screens of Death: From Diagnostic Aids to a Sad Emoji
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/screens-of-death-from-diagnostic-aids-to-a-sad-emoji/

There comes a moment in the life of any operating system when an unforeseen event will tragically cut its uptime short. Whether it’s a sloppily written driver, a bug in …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/screens-of-death-from-diagnostic-aids-to-a-sad-emoji/)

A Steady Vacuum For The Fastest Cassette Tape Drive Ever
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/a-steady-vacuum-for-the-fastest-cassette-tape-drive-ever/

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/a-steady-vacuum-for-the-fastest-cassette-tape-drive-ever/)

Supercon 2024: From Consultant to Prototyper On A Shoestring Budget
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/supercon-2024-from-consultant-to-prototyper-on-a-shoestring-budget/

Many engineers graduate from their studies and head out into the workforce, seeking a paycheck and a project at some existing company or other. Often, it’s not long before an …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/supercon-2024-from-consultant-to-prototyper-on-a-shoestring-budget/)

Leakage Control for Coupled Coils
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/leakage-control-for-coupled-coils/

Think of a circuit model that lets you move magnetic leakage around like sliders on a synth, without changing the external behavior of your coupled inductors. [Sam Ben-Yaakov] walks you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/leakage-control-for-coupled-coils/)

Turning the Pluto SDR into a Network Analyzer
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/turning-the-pluto-sdr-into-a-network-analyzer/

Usually when we see a project using a software-defined radio (SDR), the SDR’s inputs and outputs are connected to antennae, but [FromConceptToCircuit]’s project connected an ADALM-Pluto SDR to an RF …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/turning-the-pluto-sdr-into-a-network-analyzer/)

Building an Analog Echo Plate
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/building-an-analog-echo-plate/

These days, when you think reverb, you probably think about a guitar pedal or a plugin in your audio software. But you can also create reverb with a big metal …read more (https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/building-an-analog-echo-plate/)

A Flashlight of Fire and Ice
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/05/a-flashlight-of-fire-and-ice/