Collaborate Disseminate
While it is definitely a first-world problem that you don’t want to manually turn on your windshield wipers when it starts raining, it is also one of those things that …read more Continue reading Tech In Plain Sight: Rain-Sensing Wipers
Remember old hard drives with their giant ribbon cables? They went serial and now the power cables are way thicker than the data cables. We’ve seen the same thing in …read more Continue reading I3C — No Typo — Wants to Be Your Serial Bus
If you’re a Hackaday reader, it’s a good bet you could figure out how to convert your bike to use an electric motor. But you might have more important things …read more Continue reading Skarper E-Bike Conversion Kit Simplifies Electrifying your Bike
We think of digital displays as something you see on relatively modern gear. But some old gear had things like nixies or numitrons to get cool-looking retro digital displays. The …read more Continue reading Frequency Counter Restoration Impeded by Kittens
There’s gold all around us, embedded in our electronics. There are people who collect e-waste and use various methods to extract gold from them. However, it is hard to qualify …read more Continue reading There’s Gold In That There Graphene
It wasn’t long ago I was nostalgic about an old computer I saw back in the 1980s from HP. It was sort of an early attempt at a PC, although …read more Continue reading IBM’s Early PC Attracts Time Travelers
If you want to work on communication gear — especially in the 1960s — you probably wanted a VTVM (a vacuum tube voltmeter), a way to generate frequencies, and a …read more Continue reading Soviet-Era Test Gear Defects to YouTube
One of the Star Trek movies has a McGuffin called “transparent aluminum.” While magic mirrors aren’t really transparent, it appears that way to a casual observer. If you haven’t seen …read more Continue reading Magic Mirror Isn’t Transparent Metal
In the old days, a shortwave radio was a major desk fixture. These days, you can get truly diminutive radios. However, most of them only have AM capability (that is, …read more Continue reading SSB in Your Pocket
If you have problems getting a 3D print to stick to the bed, you might consider using glue to — hopefully temporarily — attach the print to the bed. In …read more Continue reading Better 3D Printing Via Chemistry?