You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What...
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The older Raspberry Pi boards have had a long life, serving faithfully since 2012. Frankly, their continued support is a...
When we see an extremely DIY project, you always get someone who jokes “well, you didn’t collect sand and grow...
Radio experimenters often need a variable capacitor to tune their circuits, as the saying goes, for maximum smoke. In decades...
Although to many of us the progression from ‘standard definition’ TV and various levels of high-definition at 720p or better...
CRTs don’t last forever, and neither do the electronics that drive them. When you have a screen starting to go...
It is a common occurrence in old movies: Our hero checks in at a hotel in some exotic locale, and...
A laptop is one of the greatest tools at the disposal of a hacker. They come in all manner of...
Tang FPGA boards are affordable, and has been trying to get an x86 core running on one for a while....
Why build a telescope? YOLO, as the kids say. Having decided that, one must decide what type of far-seer one...
For the past years people have been collecting disposable vapes primarily for their lithium-ion batteries, but as these disposable vapes...
Over on YouTube our hacker shows us how to make a simple MOSFET tester. This is a really neat, useful,...
Here at Hackaday Central, we fancy that we know a little something about Linux. But if you’d tasked us to...
Do you remember the global chip shortage? Somehow it seems so long ago, but it’s not even really been three...
How hard can it be to create your own inductors? Get a wire. Coil it up. Right? Well, the devil...
The Neon glow of a Nixie tube makes for an attractive clock, but that’s not enough neon for some people....
To connect the miniature world of integrated circuits like a CPU with the outside world, a number of physical connections...
Once upon a time, ham radio was all about CW and voice transmissions and little else. These days, the hobby...
Fnirsi is one of those brands that seem to pop up more and more often, usually for portable oscilloscopes and...
Pointing at stars may seem easy on the surface—just mount a telescope to a tripod and you’re done, right? As...
Ever want to find your device on the map? Think we all do sometimes. The technology you’ll generally use for...
Heating things up is one of the biggest sources of cost and emissions for many industrial processes we take for...
Interested in playing with ultra-wideband (UWB)? recently put together a fairly comprehensive getting started guide featuring the AI Thinker BU03...
Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart...
When you mention Teletext or Videotex, you probably think of the 1970s British system, the well-known system in France, or...
