SMD Soldering with Big Iron
You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What do you do? There are a few possible answers, but …read more Continue reading SMD Soldering with Big Iron
Author Archives: Al Williams
DIY 35mm Film Scanning
If you are sitting on a horde of negatives, waiting for the digital photography fad to die off, it may be time to think about digitizing your old film. [Kinpro1024] …read more Continue reading DIY 35mm Film Scanning
Tubeless X-Ray Runs on Patience
Every time we check in on [Project326], he’s doing something different with X-rays. This week, he has a passive X-ray imager. On paper, it looks great. No special tube is …read more Continue reading Tubeless X-Ray Runs on Patience
Toasty Subwoofer Limps Back to Life
[JohnAudioTech] noticed there was no bass on the TV at his parents’ house. That led to the discovery of a blown fuse and a corresponding repair. When he opened it …read more Continue reading Toasty Subwoofer Limps Back to Life
Possibly the Newest ISA Card
Back when the IBM PC was new, laying out an ISA board was a daunting task. You probably didn’t have a very fast ‘scope, if you had one at all. …read more Continue reading Possibly the Newest ISA Card
QUIC! Jump to User Space!
Everyone knows that Weird Al lampooned computers in a famous parody song (It’s All About the Pentiums). But if you want more hardcore (including more hardcore language, so if you …read more Continue reading QUIC! Jump to User Space!
Hackaday Podcast Episode 340: The Best Programming Language, Space Surgery, and Hacking Two 3D Printers into One
Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to share their favorite hacks of the week with you. If you listen in, you’ll hear exciting news about the upcoming SuperCon and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 340: The Best Programming Language, Space Surgery, and Hacking Two 3D Printers into One
Lost Techniques: Bond-out CPUs and In Circuit Emulation
These days, we take it for granted that you can connect a cheap piece of hardware to a microcontroller and have an amazing debugging experience. Stop the program. Examine memory …read more Continue reading Lost Techniques: Bond-out CPUs and In Circuit Emulation
Porting a Fortran Flight Simulator to Unity3D
There’s an old saying (paraphrasing a quote attributed to Hoare): “I don’t know what language scientists will use in the future, but I know it will be called Fortran.” The …read more Continue reading Porting a Fortran Flight Simulator to Unity3D
Ask Hackaday: What’s the Top Programming Language of 2025
We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What’s the Top Programming Language of 2025