Collaborate Disseminate
During Apple’s late-90s struggles with profitability, it made a few overtures toward licensing its software to other computer manufacturers, while at the same time trying to modernize its operating system, …read more Continue reading Bringing an Obscure Apple Operating System to Modern Hardware
Most people know that they shouldn’t plug strange flash drives into their computers, but what about a USB cable? A cable doesn’t immediately register as an active electronic device to …read more Continue reading An Open-Source Justification for USB Cable Paranoia
Both small children and cats have a certain tendency to make loud noises at inopportune times, but what if there were a way to combine these auditory effects? This seems …read more Continue reading Meowsic Keyboard MIDI Adapter Aims for Purrfection
Most of us spend our lives within reach of a device that provides a clock, stopwatch, and a timer – you’re almost certainly reading this article on such a device …read more Continue reading A Concentric Clock with Multiple Modes
Despite the repeated warnings of system administrators, IT personnel, and anyone moderately aware of operational security, there are still quite a few people who will gladly plug a mysterious flash …read more Continue reading A Remote-Controlled USB Rubber Ducky Clone
It’s a problem that few of us will ever face, but if you ever have to calibrate your scanning electron microscope, you’ll need a resolution target with a high contrast …read more Continue reading DIY Calibration Target for Electron Microscopes
The Functionalist design philosophy that Dieter Rams brought to Braun from the 50s to the 90s still inspires the look of a few devices, including Apple’s iPod, Teenage Engineer’s synthesizers …read more Continue reading A Modern Take on Iconic Industrial Design
Saleae logic analyzers seem to have it all: good sampling rates, convenient protocol decoding, and plenty of channels – but not a good way to set rising or falling-edge triggering. …read more Continue reading Simple Triggering for Saleae Logic Analyzers
For all the remarkable improvements we’ve seen in desktop 3D printers, metal printers have tended to stay out of reach for hackers, mostly because they usually rely on precise and …read more Continue reading Freeze-drying for improved metal printing
Usually when we see a project using a software-defined radio (SDR), the SDR’s inputs and outputs are connected to antennae, but [FromConceptToCircuit]’s project connected an ADALM-Pluto SDR to an RF …read more Continue reading Turning the Pluto SDR into a Network Analyzer