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" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/board-front-cropped.jpg?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/board-front-cropped.jpg?w=800" tabindex="0" role="button">Earlier this year [Skyhawkson] got ahold of a Apollo-era printed circuit board which he believes was used in a NASA test stand. He took high quality photos of both sides …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/apollo-era-pcb-reverse-engineering-to-kicad/)

Experimental Drone Flies Like A Bird
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/experimental-drone-flies-like-a-bird/

Most RC planes follow a simple control scheme: elevators for pitch, rudder for yaw, and ailerons for roll. This one-to-one mapping keeps things straightforward, and fewer actuators means less weight. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/experimental-drone-flies-like-a-bird/)

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the TRON Keyboard
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-tron-keyboard/

[Folaefolc] was craving a new keyboard build a few weeks ago and got inspired by the humble 3.5″ floppy disk. So much so that he decided to make a split …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-tron-keyboard/)

Square Roots 1800s Style — No, the Other 1800s
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/square-roots-1800s-style-no-the-other-1800s/

[MindYourDecisions] presents a Babylonian tablet dating back to around 1800 BC that shows that the hypotenuse of a unit square is the square root of two or 1.41421. How did …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/square-roots-1800s-style-no-the-other-1800s/)

E-Ink Screen Combined With Analog Dial Is Epic Win
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/e-ink-screen-combined-with-analog-dial-is-epic-win/

Analog dials used to be a pretty common way of displaying information on test equipment and in industrial applications. They fell out of favor as more advanced display technologies became …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/e-ink-screen-combined-with-analog-dial-is-epic-win/)

An Over-Engineered Basement Monitor
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/an-over-engineered-basement-monitor/

[Stephen] has a basement that depends on a sump pump. What that means is if the pump fails or the power goes out, the basement floods—which is rather undesirable. Not …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/an-over-engineered-basement-monitor/)

Solar Orbiter Takes Amazing Solar Pictures
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/solar-orbiter-takes-amazing-solar-pictures/

There’s an old joke that they want to send an exploratory mission to the sun, but to save money, they are going at night. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/solar-orbiter-takes-amazing-solar-pictures/)