Collaborate Disseminate
We aren’t sure what’s coolest about [Richard Testardi’s] Flea-Scope. It costs about $13 plus the cost of making the PCB. It operates at 18 million samples per second. It also …read more Continue reading $13 Scope and Logic Analyzer Hits 18 Msps
Our homes are full of technological marvels, and, as a Hackaday reader, we are betting you know the basic ideas behind a microwave oven even if you haven’t torn one …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: Microwave Ovens
[Ken Shirriff] is looking inside chips again. This time, the subject is the MK4116 — a 16 Kbit DRAM chip. Even without a calculator, you know that’s a whopping 2 …read more Continue reading 16 Kbit DRAM Gives Up Its Secrets
You’ve probably heard of multithreaded programs where a single process can have multiple threads of execution. But here is yet another layer of creating multitasking programs known as a fiber. …read more Continue reading Processes, Threads, and… Fibers?
[Thomas Sanladerer] wanted to make 3D prints using carbon fiber and was surprised that it was fairly inexpensive and worked well, although he mentions that the process is a bit …read more Continue reading Carbon Fiber with 3D Printing
Usually, an oscilloscope lets you visualize what a signal looks like. [Mitexla]’s reverse oscilloscope lets you set what you want an audio waveform to look like, and it will produce …read more Continue reading The Reverse Oscilloscope
If you ask your neighbor who Bill Gates or Steve Jobs is, they’d probably know. But mention Gary Kildall, and you are likely to get a blank stare unless you …read more Continue reading Bill, Steve, and Gary… Computer Pioneers
If you read Hackaday, you probably get the title of [SunEstra’s] post: A Casual Date with the Dumpster. Many great hacking projects start with finding one man’s trash. This June, …read more Continue reading Saving a Scope from the Dumpster
[Blondihacks] wanted to do powder coating for a model train without a lot of special equipment. She started with an Eastwood kit that runs about $230. Depending on the options, …read more Continue reading Getting Geared Up For Home Powder Coating
If you live somewhere prone to power outages, you might have thought about buying a generator. The problem is that small generators are cheap but — well — small. Big …read more Continue reading That’s not a Junker… That’s My Generator