via Hackaday: A Space Walk Through ISS
The International Space Station (ISS) might not be breaking news, but this February, National Geographic…
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via Hackaday: Voyager 2’s Plasma Spectrometer Turned Off in Power-Saving Measure
The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium…
via Hackaday: Reverse Engineering A Keyboard Driver Uncovers A Self-Destruct Code
Should you be able to brick a keyboard just by writing a driver to flash…
via Hackaday: No Z80? No Problem!
Earlier this year Zilog stopped production of the classic 40-pin DIP Z80 microprocessor, a move…
via Hackaday: Most Powerful Laser Diodes, Now More Powerful
Many hobbies seem to have a subset of participants who just can’t leave well enough…
via Hackaday: Remembering CompuServe: the Online Experience Before the World Wide Web
July 1981 cover of CompuServe’s magazine. Long before the advent of the Internet and the…
via Hackaday: Pulling Apart An Old Satellite Truck Tracker
Sometimes there’s nothing more rewarding than pulling apart an old piece of hardware of mysterious…
via Hackaday: Where is the End of DIY?
Al and I were talking on the podcast about Dan Maloney’s recent piece on how…
via Hackaday: Blowing Up Shell Scripts
One of the most universal experiences of any Linux or Unix user is working through…
via Hackaday: Broadcast TV Simulator Keeps the Nostalgia Flowing
Watch out, Gen X-ers — there’s a nostalgia overload heading your way, courtesy of this…
via Hackaday: Soldering, Up Close and Personal
A word of warning before watching this very cool video on soldering: it may make…
via Hackaday: Winamp Releases Source Code, But Is It Really Open?
The 1990s seem to have reached that point at which they are once more considered…
via Hackaday: Digital Bumper Sticker Tells Everyone What You’re Listening To
Bumper stickers are usually political, crude, or otherwise inflammatory. Rather a more fun example is…
via Hackaday: Revisiting 1990’s Mac Games That Never Were
was digging around their old MAC hard drives, revisiting some abandoned shareware games…
via Hackaday: Steel Reinforcement Toughens Cracked Vintage Knobs
Nothing can ruin a restoration project faster than broken knobs. Sure, that old “boat anchor”…
via Hackaday: Will You Need Ad Block for Your Car?
The modern web has become difficult to navigate without ad blocking software. Ford now has…
via Hackaday: Cyberpack Puts All the Radios Right on Your Back
A disclaimer: Not a single cable tie was harmed in the making of this backpack…
via Hackaday: Large Language Models on Small Computers
As technology progresses, we generally expect processing capabilities to scale up. Every year, we get…
via Hackaday: The Universe as We Know It May End Sooner Than Expected
The ‘Sombrero Potential’ as seen with the Higgs mechanism. One of the exciting aspects of…
via Hackaday: Review: iFixit’s FixHub May Be The Last Soldering Iron You Ever Buy
Like many people who solder regularly, I decided years ago to upgrade from a basic…
via Hackaday: An Automatic Cat Feeder Built With A 4060 Binary Counter
We’ve seen a great many cat feeders over the years. Some rely on the Internet…
via Hackaday: StratoSoar Glider Flies Itself from High Altitude
As the technology available to the average hacker and maker gets better and cheaper each…
via Hackaday: The Hidden Crystal Method
Ever been working on a project and get stuck on one of those last little…
via Hackaday: Amateur Astronomer Images Spy Satellite
As anyone who’s looked at the sky just before dawn or right after dusk can…
via Hackaday: Repairing a Hallicrafters S-120
claims he’s not a radio repair guy, but he agreed to look at a…