via Hackaday: Simple PCB Repairs Keep Old Vehicle Out of the Crusher
For those of us devoted to keeping an older vehicle on the road, the struggle…
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via Hackaday: Portable Solder Paste Station Prevents Smears With Suction
Applying solder paste to a new custom PCB is always a little nerve-racking. One slip…
via Hackaday: A Look Inside A Canadian Satellite TV Facility
If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in the ground facilities of a satellite TV…
via Hackaday: Measuring the Mighty Roar of SpaceX’s Starship Rocket
SpaceX’s Starship is the most powerful launch system ever built, dwarfing even the mighty Saturn…
via Hackaday: Pushing the Plasma Limits With a Custom Flyback Transformer
For serious high-voltage plasma, you need a serious transformer. from Plasma Channel is…
via Hackaday: Schooling ChatGPT on Antenna Theory Misconceptions
We’re not very far into the AI revolution at this point, but we’re far enough…
via Hackaday: Reviewing the World’s 2nd Smallest Thermal Camera
A thermal camera is a very handy tool to have, and wanted…
via Hackaday: For Desalination, Follow the Sun
It’s easy to use electricity — solar-generated or otherwise — to desalinate water. However, traditional…
via Hackaday: Ideal Diodes and How to Build Them
knows that real diodes you can buy don’t work exactly like we say they…
via Hackaday: It’s a Soldering Iron! It’s A Multimeter! Relax! It’s Both!
Imagine this. A young person comes to you wanting to get started in the electronic…
via Hackaday: Britain’s Oldest Satellite on the Move: a Space Curiosity
Space and mystery always spark our curiosity, so when we stumbled upon the story of…
via Hackaday: The Most Inexpensive Apple Computer Possible
If Apple has a reputation for anything other than decent hardware and excellent industrial design,…
via Hackaday: An Arduino Triggers a Flash With Sound
To capture an instant on film or sensor with a camera, you usually need a…
via Hackaday: The 1983 Clock Four Decades in the Making
In 1983, a 14-year-old saw an LED clock in The Sharper Image store. At…
via Hackaday: Classic Heathkit OL-1 Scope Gets Some TLC
These days, not only are oscilloscopes very common, but even a cheap instrument today would…
via Hackaday: Fundamentals of FMCW Radar Help You Understand Your Car’s Point of View
Pretty much every modern car has some driver assistance feature, such as lane departure and…
via Hackaday: Hands On With a Giant Nixie Tube
is no stranger to these pages, nor is his Museum is not Obsolete….
via Hackaday: Access the Information Superhighway With a Mac Plus
For some time now, Apple has developed a reputation for manufacturing computers and phones that…
via Hackaday: The FNIRSI HRM-10 Internal Resistance Meter
Occasionally, we find fun new electronic instruments in the wild and can’t resist sharing them…
via Hackaday: Compact Dedicated News Reader Always Brings You CBC
Your phone or laptop will give you access to the vast majority of news in…
via Hackaday: Experimenting with MicroPython on the Bus Pirate 5
I recently got one of the new RP2040-based Bus Pirate 5 (BP5), a multi-purpose interface…
via Hackaday: Random Wire Antenna Uses No Wire
Ideally, if you are going to transmit, you want a properly-tuned resonant antenna. But, sometimes,…
via Hackaday: Tiny LoRa GPS Node Relies on ESP32
Sometimes you need to create a satellite navigation tracking device that communicates via a low-power…
via Hackaday: Zinc Creep and Electroplasticity: Why Arecibo Collapsed
It’s been nearly four years since the Arecibo Telescope collapsed, an event the world got…
via Hackaday: Few Things Are Cheaper than This Antenna
As far as hobbies go, ham radio tends to be on the more expensive side….