via Hackaday: Hidden Gutter Antenna Keeps HOA Happy
The United States and a few other countries have an astounding array of homeowners’ associations…
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via Hackaday: You Can 3D Print Yourself Some Simple Magnetic Switches
Permanent magnets aren’t typically switchable. They’re always doing their magnet thing. However, if you align…
via Hackaday: Open Source Liquid Rocket Reaches for the Sky
Since the very beginning, solid-propellants have been the cornerstone of amateur rocketry. From the little…
via Hackaday: Simulating Air Flow for 3D Printing
You’ve probably heard that a 3D printer is capable of producing its own replacement parts….
via Hackaday: Roll Your Own Presence Sensor
wanted an Everything Presence Lite kite but found it was always out of stock….
via Hackaday: Happy Birthday to Dad, Retrocomputer Style
For those of us who lived through the early 8-bit computing revolution — the tail…
via Hackaday: Intuitive Explanation of Arithmetic, Geometric & Harmonic Mean
The simple definition of a mean is that of a numeric quantity which represents the…
via Hackaday: Farewell Magnetic Stripe
For decades, the magnetic stripe has been ubiquitous on everything from credit cards to tickets…
via Hackaday: A Field Guide to the North American Substation
Drive along nearly any major road in the United States and it won’t be long…
via Hackaday: Fighting the Scourge of “Screwdriver Mange”
We’ve all got our favorite hand tools, and while the selection criteria are usually pretty…
via Hackaday: Reverse-Engineering the AMD Secure Processor Inside the CPU
On an x86 system the BIOS is the first part of the system to become…
via Hackaday: Citizen Scientists Spot Super Fast Moving Object in NASA Data
When you were five, you probably spotted your best friend running at “a million miles…
via Hackaday: Rebuilding The First Digital Personal Computer
When thinking of the first PCs, most of us might imagine something like the Apple…
via Hackaday: A Modern Take on an Old Language
Some old computer languages are destined to never die. They do, however, evolve. For example,…
via Hackaday: Your Data in the Cloud
I try not to go off on security rants in the newsletter, but this week…
via Hackaday: Cost-Optimized Raspberry Pi 5 Released With 2 GB RAM and D0 Stepping
When the Raspberry Pi 5 SBC was released last year, it came in 4 and…
via Hackaday: WOW! It Wasn’t Aliens After All!
There may not be many radio astronomy printouts that have achieved universal fame, but the…
via Hackaday: Unusual Tool Gets an Unusual Repair
In today’s value-engineered world, getting a decade of service out of a cordless tool is…
via Hackaday: Handheld Oscilloscope Meter Reviewed
We live in a time where there’s virtually no excuse not to have some kind…
via Hackaday: Historical Microsoft and Apple Artifacts Among First Christie’s Auction of Living Computers Museum
Recently the Christie’s auction house released the list of items that would be going up…
via Hackaday: Lunar Lander Game Asks You to Write a Simple Autopilot
Everyone likes a good lunar landing simulator, and wrote a fun take on…
via Hackaday: Open Source Residential Energy Storage
Battery news typically covers the latest, greatest laboratory or industry breakthroughs to push modern devices…
via Hackaday: Entangled Photons Maintained Using Existing Fiber Under NYC’s Streets
Entangled photons are an ideal choice for large-scale networks employing quantum encryption or similar, as…
via Hackaday: The Sunchronizer Keeps Your Solar Panel Aligned
In the past few years, the price-per-watt for solar panels has dropped dramatically. This has…
via Hackaday: Ryobi Battery Pack Gives Up Its Secrets Before Giving Up the Ghost
Remember when dead batteries were something you’d just toss in the trash? Those days are…