has a video in which a wide variety of AA cells are analyzed and compared in terms of capacity, internal...
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There’s a paradox in amateur radio: after all the time and effort spent getting a license and all the expense...
Can you use brake cleaner for flux removal on PCBs? According to , yes you can. But should you? Well,...
Who wouldn’t want to have a scanning electron microscope (SEM)? If you’re the person behind the ProjectsInFlight channel on YouTube, you...
Conventional wisdom has it that the solid state era in electronics began in 1948 with the invention of the transistor,...
We will admit it. If we found a 386 motherboard as badly corroded as the one did, we would trash...
If you’re planning on working satellites or doing any sort of RF work where the signal lives down in the...
wanted to see if a “common person” (in his words) could build an effective vertical ham radio antenna. If you...
The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project for electronics or radio enthusiasts...
We’re not very far into the AI revolution at this point, but we’re far enough to know not to trust...
knows that real diodes you can buy don’t work exactly like we say they do. That’s actually pretty common. We...
Sometimes, it’s nice to know how windy it is outside. Knowing the direction of the wind can be a plus,...
Everyone knows those small bags of forbidden “Do not eat” candy that come with fresh rolls of FDM filament as...
As far as hobbies go, ham radio tends to be on the more expensive side. A dual-band mobile radio can...
If you’re passionate about signal processing and retro tech, you’ll want to check out the Createc SC 01, a quirky...
We see a fair few glitcher projects, especially the simpler voltage glitchers. Still, quite often due to their relative simplicity,...
Need a weekend project? wanted a GPS tracker that would send data out via LTE or the Iridium network. Ok,...
Generally speaking, the Hackaday Supercon badge will always have a place for SAO (rebranded as “Supercon add-ons”), and that makes...
We’ve all heard stories of the dangers of 3D printing, with fires from runaway hot ends or dodgy heated build...
We’ve often heard you should do everything twice. The first time is to learn what you need to do, and...
Some time ago, while designing the PCB for the Sony Vaio replacement motherboard, I went on a quest to find...
Well, that was “fun”. Last week, we wrote a newsletter post about the state of Hackaday’s comments. We get good...
Continuing the series on floppy copy protection, examines Electronic Arts’ Interlock system. This was used from 1984 to 1987 for...
Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient...
The Internet Archive has been hacked. This is an ongoing story, but it looks like this started at least as...
