Collaborate Disseminate
Until recently, hobby-grade digital oscilloscopes were mostly, at most, 8-bit sampling. However, newer devices offer 12-bit conversion. Does it matter? Depends. [Kiss Analog] shows where a 12-bit scope may outperform …read more Continue reading Two Bits, Four Bits, a Twelve-bit Oscilloscope
You might wonder why you’d repair a calculator when you can pick up a new one for a buck. [Tech Tangents] though has some old Sony calculators that used Nixie …read more Continue reading Repairing Vintage Sony Luggable Calculators
Today, we think nothing of sticking thousands of pages of documents on a tiny SD card, or just pushing it out to some cloud service. But for decades, this wasn’t …read more Continue reading Information Density: Microfilm and Microfiche
We aren’t sure if [Joshua Bellamy] is serious that he wants a laminar flow to water his plants, but there are many places where having a smooth and predictable flow …read more Continue reading Garden Hose Gets Laminar Flow
If you have never heard of the Bellmac-32, you aren’t alone. But it is a good bet that most, if not all, of the CPUs in your devices today use …read more Continue reading The Bellmac-32 CPU — What?
[Daniel Salião Ferreira] may or may not be a Game of Thrones fan, but he does have a fun demo of the Seebeck effect in the form of a flashlight …read more Continue reading A Flashlight of Fire and Ice
It is no secret that we like slide rules around the Hackaday bunker, and among our favorites are the cylindrical slide rules. [Chris Staecker] likes them, too, and recently even …read more Continue reading Slide Rule by Helix
Have you ever heard of INTERCAL? If you haven’t, don’t feel bad. This relatively obscure language dates back to 1972 with the goal of being difficult to read and write. …read more Continue reading The 1972 INTERCAL Compiler Revealed
If we asked you to think of a device that converts a chemical reaction into electricity, you’d probably say we were thinking of a battery. That’s true, but there is …read more Continue reading A Brief History of Fuel Cells
Normal people binge-scroll social media. Hackaday writers tend to pore through online tech news and shopping sites incessantly. The problem with the shopping sites is that you wind up buying …read more Continue reading The Make-roscope