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You would think a guitar amplifier would be a straightforward piece of analog electronics. But, of course, these days, everything has firmware, including [mforney]’s Yamaha THR10c. The service manual showed …read more Continue reading Poking Around with JTAG on a Guitar Amp
Someone calls you at work and says, “Don’t tell anyone, but…” If you are like most people, there are one or two people you will pass it along to with …read more Continue reading How to Let Everyone Keep a Secret
While designing anything for operation in space has its challenges, there is at least one thing that is more of a problem for objects in Earth orbit than for deep-space …read more Continue reading Attack of the Atomic Oxygen
Dealing with text streams is a fundamental skill for the Linux power user. You can sort, merge, and search text files easily from the command line. What if you could …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Fake Webcams Have Many Uses
There’s a line in a [Weird Al] (no relation) song that says, “I upgrade my system at least twice a day…” I know how that is. I primarily use a …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: The Bluetooth Regression
Gravity batteries aren’t exactly a new idea. You can store energy by lifting something heavy, converting kinetic energy into potential energy. To get it back, you let the mass fall …read more Continue reading Power from Gravity
[Ken Shirriff] does some of the most interesting teardowns. This time, he’s looking at a French-built minicomputer called the Mitra 125 MS from around 1980. In particular, it was the …read more Continue reading Spacelab’s Mitra 125 MS
With Elliot back from Hackaday Europe, he and Al Williams had a lot to talk about with two weeks of Hackaday posts to catch up on. Not to mention the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 370: Softer Cyberdecks, a Simulated Clutch, and an Overstuffed Mailbox
My old friend Jeff was always vocally upset that he didn’t come up with the idea of a string trimmer, commonly known as a Weed Eater or Weed Whacker. On …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: The Mechanics of String Trimmers
Normally, when you think of a radio transmitter, you want the strongest signal and range. But if your radio operator is secretly operating as a spy, broadcasting their position isn’t …read more Continue reading Spy Tech: A Quiet Radio for Spies