Some time ago, while designing the PCB for the Sony Vaio replacement motherboard, I went on a quest to find...
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It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce immediately marketable...
If you need an amplifier, has some advice. Don’t design your own; grab cheap and tiny RF amplifier modules and...
Although initially defined as an issue with GPIO inputs when configured with the internal pull-downs enabled, erratum RP2350-E9 has recently...
It is hard to imagine that a handful of decades ago, TV wasn’t a thing. We’ve talked a few times...
When are jumper wires on a breadboard entirely optional? When it’s the latest version of ’s Jumperless, which uses a...
When it comes to Nixie tubes, the most common usage these days seems to be in clocks. That has people...
If you picked today in your hackerspace’s sweepstake on when Winamp would pull their code repository, congratulations! You’re a winner!...
The dulcet tones of a modem handshake may be a thing of the distant past for most of us, but...
Well, that was “fun”. Last week, we wrote a newsletter post about the state of Hackaday’s comments. We get good...
When we think of assembling a PCB, we’re almost always thinking about solder. Whether in paste form or on the...
A lot of hams like to carry a VHF radio. Of course, nearly everyone wants to carry a phone. Now,...
As hackers, we’re always pulling stuff apart—sometimes just to see what it’s like inside. Most of us have seen the...
Trees and forests are an incredibly important natural resource not only for lumber and agricultural products, but also maintain a...
What color are the street lights in your town? While an unfortunate few still suffer under one of the awful...
Like many of us, has things he just can’t stop buying. In his case, it is portable satellite dishes. You’ve...
Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or...
Continuing the series on floppy copy protection, examines Electronic Arts’ Interlock system. This was used from 1984 to 1987 for...
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler made groundbreaking contributions to physics, and has a fantastic writeup about the man. He was undeniably...
After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer,...
Have you wanted to get into GPU programming with CUDA but found the usual textbooks and guides a bit too...
Visualization of the Sun-Earth Lagrange points. Orbital mechanics is a fun subject, as it involves a lot of seemingly empty...
It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it up in to the upper...
Machines that automate the various tedious tasks that come with being a servant in a cat’s household — like feeding...
As we get older, our eyes get worse. That’s just a fact of life. It is a rite of passage...
