Collaborate Disseminate
Mattel holds a fond place in most people’s hearts as they made many of the toys we played with as kids. You might remember the Thingmaker, which was essentially an …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Do Kids Need 3D Printers?
Like most of us, [Arnov] used a spare coffee mug to hold pens on his desk. But there has to be a better way, right? Surely if you build a …read more Continue reading PCB Pen Holder is Over the Top
Sony used to sell digital cameras that recorded on actual floppy disks. We’ve come a long way, but [Mathieu] put a floppy in a digital camera recently for an entirely …read more Continue reading Floppy Photog: Making an IR Filter From a 3.5″ Disk
If you’ve ever dealt with RF circuits, you probably have run into Q — a dimensionless number that indicates the ratio of reactance to resistance. If you ever wanted to …read more Continue reading Q Meter Measures… Q, of Course
Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: UEFI Booting
It is no secret that semiconductor junctions change their behavior with temperature, and you can use this fact to make a temperature sensor. The problem is that you have to …read more Continue reading Frequency Tells Absolute Temperature
In the 1970s, 8-track audio players were very popular, especially in cars. For a couple of bucks, you could have the latest album, and you didn’t have to flip the …read more Continue reading Retro Gadgets: Tired of the Beatles on 8 Track? Try the Police
Few things are more impressive than a lighting strike. Lightning can carry millions of volts and while it can be amazing to watch, it is somewhat less amazing to be …read more Continue reading Turns Out, Lighting Can Strike Twice, With a Little Help
Ornithopters have been — mostly — the realm of science fiction. However, a paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems by researchers at Lund University proposes that flapping wings may well power the …read more Continue reading Flappy Bird Drone Edition
The Atari 2600 was an extremely popular yet very simple game console back in the 1970s. They sold, apparently, over 30 million of them, and, of course, these things broke. …read more Continue reading Inside the Atari 2600