Inside an Arcade Joystick
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/09/inside-an-arcade-joystick/

If you ever played an arcade game and wondered what was inside that joystick you were gripping, [Big Clive] can save you some trouble. He picked up a cheap replacement …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/09/inside-an-arcade-joystick/)

A Beautifully Illustrated Guide to Making
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/a-beautifully-illustrated-guide-to-making/

If you’ve ever been wondering what you should make next, it can be a daunting task to decide with the firehose of inspiration coming straight from the series of tubes …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/a-beautifully-illustrated-guide-to-making/)

Building a DIY Nipkow Disk Display
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/building-a-diy-nipkow-disk-display/

Before flat screen technologies took over, we associate TV with the CRT. But there were other display technologies that worked, they just weren’t as practical. One scheme was the Nipkow …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/building-a-diy-nipkow-disk-display/)

Component Tester Teardown
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/component-tester-teardown/

In the modern age, when you hear “component tester” you probably think of one of those cheap microcontroller-based devices that can identify components and provide basic measurements on an LCD …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/component-tester-teardown/)

Building a Motor Feed For the UE1 Vacuum Tube Computer’s Paper Tape Reader
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/building-a-motor-feed-for-the-ue1-vacuum-tube-computers-paper-tape-reader/

Building a paper tape reader by itself isn’t super complicated: you need a source of light, some photoreceptors behind the tape to register the presence of holes and some way …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/building-a-motor-feed-for-the-ue1-vacuum-tube-computers-paper-tape-reader/)

Hackaday Links: November 11, 2024
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/hackaday-links-november-11-2024/

Fair warning, while the first item this week has no obvious connection to hacking, when 43 Rhesus monkeys escape from a lab, it’s just something that needs to be discussed. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/hackaday-links-november-11-2024/)

Welcome to SubTropolis: the Limestone Mine Turned Climate-Controlled Business Complex
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/10/welcome-to-subtropolis-the-limestone-mine-turned-climate-controlled-business-complex/