If you’ve seen a big air-variable capacitor, you may have noticed that some of the plates may have slots cut...
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powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969....
It seems like a fair assessment to state that the many ‘AI’ features that Microsoft added to Windows 11 are...
If you’re a regular reader of Hackaday, you may have noticed a certain fondness for Meshtastic devices, and the LoRa...
UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of...
After you have written the code for some awesome application, you of course want other people to be able to...
These days, Internet connectivity is ubiquitous, so you can look up live weather data on just about any device around...
If you work on simple digital projects, just about any bench supply will offer the voltage and current you’re looking...
If you’ve got an old black and white TV, it’s probably not useful for much. There are precious few analog...
It’s been twenty-three years since the day Phoenix was released, the web browser that eventually became Firefox. I downloaded it...
If you want to know when the train is coming, you could pull up a webpage on your phone, or...
We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they...
takes us back to basics in a recent video explaining how magnets, coils, brushed DC motors, and brushless DC motors...
The increasing dominance of lithium cells in the market place leave our trusty NiMH cells in a rough spot. Sure,...
In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the...
It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input...
Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean people aren’t out to get you. Do you think your soldering iron is...
Calendar aging of NMC Li-ion cells at 50 ℃ at various SoCs. (Credit: Wiljan Vermeer, IEEE, 2021) With batteries being...
Old parts such as EPROMs will often find themselves for sale on sites such as eBay, where they are sometimes...
When we talk about HDTV, we’re typically talking about any one of a number of standards from when television made...
This summer, we saw the WHY (What Hackers Yearn) event happen in Netherlands, of course, with a badge to match....
These days just about any battery storage solution connected to PV solar or similar uses LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries. The reason...
It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they...
Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you...
Friends, I’ve gotten myself into a pickle and I need some help. A few years back, I decided to get...
