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Open Source Framework Aims to Keep Tidbyt Afloat

We recently got a note in the tips line from [Tavis Gustafson], who is one of th...

Contagious Ideas

We ran a story about a wall-mounted plotter bot this week, Mural. It’s a simple,...

Recreating the Analog Beauty of a Vintage Tektronix Osc...

Tektronix must have been quite a place to work back in the 1980s. The company of...

How to Make a 13 mm Hole With a 1/2″ Drill Bit

As everyone knows, no matter how many drill bits one owns, one inevitably needs ...

Pictures from a High Altitude Balloon

How do you get images downlinked from 30 km up? Hams might guess SSTV — slow sca...

Make DIY Conductive, Biodegradable String Right In Your...

[ombates] shares a step-by-step method for making a conductive bio-string from s...

Math, Optimized: Sweden’s Maximal Multi-Divi

Back in the early 1900s, before calculators lived in our pockets, crunching numb...

An Artificial Sun In A Manageable Size

The sun is our planet’s source of natural illumination, and though we’ve mastere...

Take A Little Bit Of Acorn To Work

When we think of 8-bit computers, it’s natural to start with home computers. Tha...

Hackaday Podcast Episode 314: It’s Pi, but Also PCBs in...

It might not be Pi Day anymore, but Elliot and Dan got together for the approxim...

Keep Tabs on Your Vehicle’s Needs with LubeLogger

It doesn’t matter if its a Vespa or a Peterbilt truck — if you ignore the mainte...

This Week in Security: IngressNightmare, NextJS, and L...

This week, researchers from Wiz Research released a series of vulnerabilities in...

Dwingeloo to Venus: Report of a Successful Bounce

Radio waves travel fast, and they can bounce, too. If you are able to operate a ...

Scanning Film The Way It Was Meant To Be

Scanning a film negative is as simple as holding it up against a light source an...

AqMood is an Air Quality Monitor with an Attitude

You take your air quality seriously, so shouldn’t your monitoring hardware? If y...

Half The Reflow Oven You Expected

Toaster oven reflow projects are such a done deal that there should be nothing n...

An Inexpensive Way to Break Down Plastic

Plastic has been a revolutionary material over the past century, with an uncount...

Inside a Fake WiFi Repeater

Over the years we have seen a lot of fake electronics, ranging from fake power s...

Your Badminton Racket Needs Restringing? There’s a DIY ...

We don’t often get our badminton rackets restrung, but if we did, [kuokuo702]’s ...

Supercon 2024: Yes, You Can Use the Controller Area Net...

Ah, the CAN bus. It’s become a communication standard in the automotive world, f...

Custom Slimline CD Player Hides Out Under Speaker

In the era of digital streaming, the market is full of wireless speakers that wi...

General Fusion Claims Success with Magnetized Target Fu...

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nu...

Chase Light SAO Shouldn’t Have Used a 555, and Didn’t

Around these parts, projects needlessly using a microcontroller where a simpler ...

Pi Pico Turns Atari 2600 into a Lo-fi Photo Frame

The cartridge based game consoles of decades ago had a relatively simple modus o...

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