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Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together again to discuss the best of Hackaday for a week, and you’re invited. This week, the guys were into the Raspberry Pi 5, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 239: Overclocking, Oscilloscopes, and Oh No! SMD Out of Stock!
For electronics, your knowledge probably follows a bit of a bell curve over time. When you start out, you know nothing. But you eventually learn a lot. Then you learn …read more Continue reading An SMD Capacitor Guide
There was a time when plotters were the pinnacle of computer graphics output. While they aren’t as common as they used to be, there are some advantages to having a …read more Continue reading Lessons Learned While Building a DIY Pen Plotter
It used to be that developing for microcontrollers was relatively relaxing. These days, even a cheap micro like the Raspberry Pi Pico has multiple cores, networking (for the W, at …read more Continue reading LittleFS: the Emphasis is on Little
Usually, when you want a servo motor, you simply buy one already made. But if you need something unusual, you can turn any DC motor into a custom servo you …read more Continue reading Roll Your Own Servo
When you want to talk about cool new components, you are probably thinking about chips or, these days, even modules. Passive components like resistors, capacitors, and inductors are a solved …read more Continue reading Passive Components Get Better
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?