Collaborate Disseminate
Most of us strip the insulation off wires using some form of metal blade or blades. You can get many tools that do that, but you can also get by …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Stripping Wires with Lasers
We always enjoy the odd things that people do to try to get better audio reproduction. Exotic cables, special amplifiers, and higher resolution digitization come to mind. Most of this …read more Continue reading Improve CD Sound by Shaving?
In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Eavesdropping on Serial
It is a shame that there are fewer and fewer “nerd stores” around. Fry’s is gone. Radio Shack is gone. But the best ones were always the places that had …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Oh Boy! We’re Radio Engineers!
If you’ve ever dealt with orbital mechanics or sophisticated computer graphics, you’ve probably run across the math term quaternions. [Anyleaf] has a guide to the practical use of this math …read more Continue reading Today’s the Day You Finally Learn Quaternions
Hydrogen fuel is promising, and while there’s plenty of hydrogen in the air and water, the problem is extracting it. Researchers have developed a way to use aluminum nanoparticles to …read more Continue reading Nanoparticles Rip Hydrogen from Water
The 78XX series of regulators are very handy to use. If you need, say, a 5V regulator, you grab a 7805, add a capacitor for stability, and send in enough …read more Continue reading The 7805 is Dead! Long Live the 7805!
What kind of electric vehicle travels at 620 miles per hour (998 km/h)? According to Canadian and French company TransPot, their FluxJet will do it and they want to use …read more Continue reading It’s a Plane… It’s a Train… Um… It’s Both?
If your friend told you their car had a backup camera, a digital dashboard, climate control, could scan for radio stations, and even helped stay on the road, you wouldn’t …read more Continue reading Backup Camera, Digital Dash, Road Assist… in 1969?
How fast can a Raspberry Pi Pico go? Well, apparently the answer is 1 GHz if you freeze it and give it over twice the voltage it normally gets. Oh, …read more Continue reading Pi Pico Gives Its Life for Overclocking