Collaborate Disseminate
Philco was a common household brand for many years. The company started in 1892, making street lights. Then they pivoted to batteries. This was big business when early radios were …read more Continue reading Philco Bet the Farm on The Predicta… and Lost
Having an AI assistant is all the rage these days, but AI assistants usually don’t know about your automation setups and may have difficulty dealing with tasks asynchronously. Enter zclaw. …read more Continue reading AI Assistant Uses ESP32
Having an AI assistant is all the rage these days, but AI assistants usually don’t know about your automation setups and may have difficulty dealing with tasks asynchronously. Enter zclaw. …read more Continue reading AI Assistant Uses ESP32
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams met up to trade their favorite posts of the week. Tune in and see if your favorites made the list. From crazy intricate …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Ep 359: Flying Squids, Edible Passwords, and a CAD Automaton
You see it all the time in science fiction: the heroes find old data, read it, and learn how to save the day. But how realistic is that? Forget aliens. …read more Continue reading Inside Project Silica, Now on Bakeware
There was a time when only the richest ham radio operators could have a radio with a panadapter. Back in the day, this was basically a spectrum analyzer that monitored …read more Continue reading Adding a Panadapter to a Classic Receiver
If you want smooth top surfaces on your 3D printed parts, a common technique is to turn on ironing in your slicer. This causes the head to drag through the …read more Continue reading Stop Ironing 3D Prints
While you may have never heard of TAT-8, there is a good chance you sent some data through it. TAT-8 was the 8th transatlantic communications cable and the first transatlantic …read more Continue reading TAT-8 — The First Transatlantic Fiber — Rises Again
If you know about Peltier modules, a solid-state fridge seems like an easy project. Pump 12V into the module, include a heat sink and a fan. Then you are done, …read more Continue reading Peltier Fridges Have Early Death
If you want to reverse engineer a PC board, you could do worse than X-ray it. But thanks to [Philip Giacalone], you could just take a photo, load it into …read more Continue reading X-Ray a PCB Virtually