Collaborate Disseminate
We always admire when companies produce useful tools or documentation that aren’t specific to their products. For example, consider LTSpice. Sure, it has the company’s models baked in. But there’s …read more Continue reading Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference Needs a Big Pocket
One of the problems with laser cutting projects is that while they look good, they often look like they were laser cut. [Timber Rough] has a wooden desk lamp that …read more Continue reading Wooden Desk Lamp Uses Unusual Dimmer
[Stoppi] always has exciting projects and, as you can see in the video below, the latest one is a very simple magnetic levitator design. The design is classic and simple: …read more Continue reading Simple Magnetic Levitator
Even if you don’t have a Rohde Schwarz oscilloscope, you can still enjoy their recent video about using an oscilloscope to measure power supply efficiency. Of course, you don’t have …read more Continue reading Power Supply Efficiency Measurements
Silicone is a useful material for many purposes. Traditionally, creating something out of silicone required injection molding. That’s not difficult, but it does require a good bit of setup. As …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Silicone Parts
Imagine if, somehow, telephones of all kinds had not been invented. Then, this morning, someone entered a big corporation board room and said, “We’d like to string copper wire to …read more Continue reading The End of Landlines?
You know those “What my friends think I do” vs “What I actually do” memes? Well there should be one for 3D printing that highlights what you think you’ll do …read more Continue reading The Revolver: A 3D-Printed… Screwdriver!
Researchers at Rice University have found an alloy of copper, vanadium, and sulfur that forms crystals that, due to quantum effects, can trap electrons. This can produce flat bands, which …read more Continue reading Metal Crystal Stops Electrons
If you read Byte magazine in 1983, you might have expected that, by now, you’d be able to buy the red phone with the video screen built-in. You know, like …read more Continue reading Your 1983 Video Phone is Finally Ready
We’d wager that, if you’re reading Hackaday, you’ve looked at more than a few circuit diagrams in your day. Maybe you’ve even converted a few of them over to a …read more Continue reading Atopile Wants you to Code Schematics