If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in the ground facilities of a satellite TV operation, you could go banging on the doors or your local station. You’d probably get …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/a-look-inside-a-canadian-satellite-tv-facility/)

Supercon 2024 Flower SAO Badge Redrawing in KiCad
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/supercon-2024-flower-sao-badge-redrawing-in-kicad/

Redrawn KiCda schematics, author
" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/badge24-feature_a95c16.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/badge24-feature_a95c16.png?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">Out of curiosity, I redrew the Supercon Vectorscope badge schematics in KiCad last year. As you might suspect, going from PCB to schematic is opposite to the normal design flow …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/supercon-2024-flower-sao-badge-redrawing-in-kicad/)

3D Printing With a Hot Glue Gun
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/3d-printing-with-a-hot-glue-gun/

Face it, we’ve all at some time or other looked at our hot glue guns, and thought “I wonder if I could use that for 3D printing!”. [Proper Printing] didn’t …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/3d-printing-with-a-hot-glue-gun/)

Small Volumetric Lamp Spins at 6000 RPM
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/small-volumetric-lamp-spins-at-6000-rpm/

Volumetric displays are simply cool. Throw some LEDs together, take advantage of persistence of vision, and you’ve really got something. [Nick Electronics] shows us how its done with his neat …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/small-volumetric-lamp-spins-at-6000-rpm/)

Bakelite to the Future – A 1950s Bluetooth Headset
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/bakelite-to-the-future-a-1950s-bluetooth-headset/

https://blog.waleson.com/2024/10/bakelite-to-future-1950s-rotary-phone.html?m=1
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_20241027_164108724-featured.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_20241027_164108724-featured.png?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">A decade ago, [Jouke Waleson] bought a Dutch ‘model 1950’ PTT (The Dutch Postal Service) rotary-dial telephone of presumably 1950s vintage manufactured by a company called Standard Electric, and decided it …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/bakelite-to-the-future-a-1950s-bluetooth-headset/)

Few Things Are Cheaper than This Antenna
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/few-things-are-cheaper-than-this-antenna/

As far as hobbies go, ham radio tends to be on the more expensive side. A dual-band mobile radio can easily run $600, and a high-end HF base station with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/few-things-are-cheaper-than-this-antenna/)

Cataract Surgery For An Old TV
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/cataract-surgery-for-an-old-tv/

TVs used to be round, and the GE M935AWL is a great example of that. [bandersentv] found one of these ancient sets, but found it had a “cataract”—a large ugly …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/10/31/cataract-surgery-for-an-old-tv/)