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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…
Hackaday, Newsreel, Offbeat, rocket, Space, SpaceX, Starship

via Hackaday: Reviewing the World’s 2nd Smallest Thermal Camera

A thermal camera is a very handy tool to have, and wanted…
camera, Digital, Hackaday, infrared, Offbeat

via Hackaday: For Desalination, Follow the Sun

It’s easy to use electricity — solar-generated or otherwise — to desalinate water. However, traditional…
desalination, General, Hackaday, New Mexico, Offbeat, solar power, SUN

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…
Cold War, communications, espionage, geosynchronous, Hackaday, International, military, Newsreel, Offbeat, RAF, Skynet-1A, spying, UK

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…
automobile, automobiles, cw, doppler, FM, Hackaday, mobile, Offbeat, RADAR

via Hackaday: Hands On With a Giant Nixie Tube

is no stranger to these pages, nor is his Museum is not Obsolete….
Hackaday, Museum, nixie tubes, Offbeat

via Hackaday: Amazon Receives FAA Approval for MK30 Delivery Drone

It’s been about a decade since Amazon began to fly its delivery drones, aiming to…
Amazon, Business, Drones, FAA, General, Hackaday, Offbeat

via Hackaday: Pulley System Makes Headphone Cables More Managable

It’s 2024. You’ve probably got one or more pairs of wireless headphones around the house….
cabling, General, Hackaday, Headphones, Offbeat, pulley

via Hackaday: An SAO for Hams

Generally speaking, the Hackaday Supercon badge will always have a place for SAO (rebranded as…
Hackaday, LED, MicroPython, Offbeat, Raspberry Pi, SAO

via Hackaday: Tech in Plain Sight: Zipper Bags

You probably think of them as “Ziploc” bags, but, technically, the generic term is zipper…
consumer products, General, Hackaday, Offbeat

via Hackaday: Copper Bling Keeps Camera Chill

Every action camera these days seems prone to overheating and sudden shutdowns after mere minutes…
camera, consumer electronics, consumer products, Digital, Hackaday, heat, heatsink, Offbeat

via Hackaday: “Click to Cancel” Coming Soon

If you’ve ever had to suffer through a call tree and a 9,000 hour wait…
cancellation, enrollment, FTC, General, Hackaday, Newsreel, Offbeat, regulatory, subscription

via Hackaday: A VIC-20 with no VIC

has started a new video series to show his latest recreation of a Commodore…
Commodore computer, Computers, CPU, Hackaday, Newsreel, Offbeat, VIC-20, vintage

via Amateur Radio Daily: Opinion: It’s Time for Ham Clubs to Move Away from the PDF Newsletter

It’s time for ham radio clubs to move away from the PDF based newsletter as…
Blog, clubs, News, newsletter, Newsreel, Offbeat, opinion, PDF, social media

via Hackaday: Trees Turned Into Wind Turbines, Non-Destructively

Trees and forests are an incredibly important natural resource not only for lumber and agricultural…
Hackaday, Offbeat, sustainability, trees, wind turbine

via Hackaday: Fail of the Week: The Case of the Curiously Colored Streetlights

What color are the street lights in your town? While an unfortunate few still suffer…
Hackaday, lamp, LED, light, Newsreel, Offbeat, streetlamp, ultraviolet

via Hackaday: Usagi Electric’s Paper Tape Reader is Ready to Hop With the Tube Computer

After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for…
3D printing, computer tape, Computers, FreeCAD, Hackaday, History, Offbeat, vintage

via Hackaday: The Rise of Self-Cleaning, Cat-Killing Litter Boxes

Machines that automate the various tedious tasks that come with being a servant in a…
aliexpress, cats, Hackaday, litterbox, Offbeat

via Hackaday: Hack Your Eyesight with High Tech Bifocals

As we get older, our eyes get worse. That’s just a fact of life. It…
auto-focus, consumer products, eyeglasses, Google, Hackaday, medicine, Offbeat

via Hackaday: Hack On Self: Collecting Data

A month ago, I’ve talked about using computers to hack on our day-to-day existence, specifically,…
Computers, cybersecurity, data, database, Hackaday, Legal, Linux, Offbeat, spying, spyware

via Amateur Radio Daily: Special Event Celebrates Sasquatch Awareness Day

The Radio Club of Tacoma is celebrating National Sasquatch Awareness Day with a series of…
bigfoot, News, Newsreel, Offbeat, sasquatch, Special Event, Washington State

via Hackaday: Real Time Hacking Of A Supermarket Toy

Sometimes those moments arise when a new device comes on the market and hardware hackers…
consumer electronics, consumer products, Denmark, Hackaday, Offbeat, toy

via the ARRL: Amateur Radio and Robot Play Ball!

Read more at ARRL.org
ARRL, baseball, New York State, News, Newsreel, Offbeat, robotics, Staten Island Technical High School

via Hackaday: Thermal Runaway: Solving the Bane of Electric Vehicles

Although battery fires in electric cars and two-wheeled vehicles are not a common phenomenon, they…
automobile, automobiles, batteries, electric vehicles, EV, Hackaday, MIT, mobile, Offbeat, sensor, thermal runaway

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…
Computers, firmware, GitHub, Hackaday, keyboards, LCD, light, Offbeat, Pi Pico, USB, Windows
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