Collaborate Disseminate
There was a time when soldering stations were unusual in hobby labs. These days, inexpensive stations are everywhere. [Kerry Wong] looks at the TS1C station, which is tiny and cordless. …read more Continue reading Inside a Cordless Soldering Station
A signal generator that can produce the usual sine, square, and triangle waves is handy and has been a staple of electronic benches for decades. Being able to craft custom …read more Continue reading Arbitrary Waveforms on the Cheap
[Mango Jelly] got a question from someone trying to model a phone box with a complex curved roof. We have to admit that when we saw it, we knew it …read more Continue reading Throw FreeCAD Some Curves
In a recent blog post, [Benjamin Breen] makes an interesting case that 2023 might go down in history as the start of a scientific revolution, and that’s even if LK-99 …read more Continue reading A Little Bit of Science History Repeating Itself: Boyle’s List
Historians may note that World War II was the last great “movie war.” In those days, you could do many things that are impossible today, yet make for great movie …read more Continue reading Ku-Go: The World War II Death Ray
Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Al Williams don’t always agree on the best text editor to use, but they do — usually — agree on what makes a great hack. This …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 231: Harnessing Sparks, Hacking Food, and Leaving Breadcrumbs
You want to join two shafts. What do you need? A coupler, of course. If the shafts don’t line up, you might consider an Oldham coupler. But what if the …read more Continue reading A Hobson’s Coupler Leads to a Weird Engine
How can you spot an engineer? It can be tricky, but it is a little easier in Canada. That’s because many Canadian engineers have been through the Ritual of the …read more Continue reading Canadian Engineers? They Have a Ring About Them
These days, you have a certain expectation for computer keys on a keyboard. Of course, there are variations and proponents of different mechanisms and noise levels. However, back in the …read more Continue reading Inside the PET Keyboard
Ever seen a restaurant where they display fake models of the food on the menu? We never thought much about how shokuhin sampuru — the Japanese name — were made until …read more Continue reading Hacking Fake Food