Collaborate Disseminate
Hackaday Editors Tom Nardi and Al Williams spent the weekend at Supercon and had to catch up on all the great hacks. Listen in as they talk about their favorites. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 344: Board with Lasers, Op-Amp Torture, and Farewell Supercon 9
When you think of a US Nuclear accident, you probably think of Three Mile Island. However, there have been over 50 accidents of varying severity in the US, with few …read more Continue reading The Deadliest US Nuclear Accident is Not What You Think
If I mention nuclear reactor accidents, you’d probably think of Three Mile Island, Fukushima, or maybe Chernobyl (or, now, Chornobyl). But there have been others that, for whatever reason, aren’t …read more Continue reading This Reactor is on Fire! Literally…
We’ll be honest. If you had told us a few decades ago we’d teach computers to do what we want, it would work some of the time, and you wouldn’t …read more Continue reading Expert Systems: The Dawn of AI
No matter what kind of computer or phone you are reading this on, it probably has a graphics system that would have been a powerful computer on its own back …read more Continue reading Remembering Better Mono Graphics
One of the lost pleasures of our modern world is the experience of going shopping at a grocery store, a mall, or a drugstore, and finding this month’s electronics magazine …read more Continue reading Magazine Transistor Tester Lives Again
We always enjoy videos from [w2aew]. His recent entry looks at vertical or VFETs, which are, as he puts it, a JFET that thinks it is a triode. He clearly …read more Continue reading VFETs are (Almost) Solid State Tubes
Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close …read more Continue reading Examining the First Mechanical Calculator
It is hard to remember a time when no one had a spreadsheet. Sure, you had big paper ledgers if you were an accountant. But most people just scribbled their …read more Continue reading Spreadsheets Apple ][ Style
If you want to work with radioactive material, a cheap Geiger counter isn’t really what you want. According to [Project 326], you need a gamma ray spectrometer. The video below …read more Continue reading A Nuclear Physics Lab in your Pocket