Collaborate Disseminate
Automated musical instruments aren’t a new idea. From water chimes to player pianos, they’ve been around for a while. But we can’t remember the last time we saw a player …read more Continue reading Player Ukulele Pulls Your Strings
[Breaking Taps] has a look at “parkerization” — a process to coat steel to prevent rust. While you commonly see this finish in firearms, it is usable anywhere you need …read more Continue reading The Science of Coating Steel
There was a time when building a telescope was a rite of passage for budding astronomers, much as building a radio was the coming age for electronics folks. These days, …read more Continue reading Orion Ceases Operations, Future of Meade Unclear
It is hard to imagine what a mainframe or supercomputer can do when we all have what amounts to supercomputers on our desks. But if you look at something like …read more Continue reading Mainframe Chip has 360MB of on-Chip Cache
[Michelle Hampson] reports in IEEE Spectrum that Chinese researchers may improve self-driving cars by mimicking how the human eye works. In some autonomous cars, two cameras use polarizing filters to …read more Continue reading Self Driving Cars Learn from Our Eyes
[MIKROWAVE1] claims he’s not a radio repair guy, but he agreed to look at a malfunctioning Hallicrafters S-120 shortwave receiver. He lets us watch as he tries to get it …read more Continue reading Repairing a Hallicrafters S-120
It is common these days to have a soldering iron where you can set the temperature using some sort of digital control. But how accurate is it? Probably pretty accurate, …read more Continue reading How Hot is That Soldering Iron?
While version control used to be reserved for big corporate projects, it is very mainstream these days. You can attribute much of that to Git, the software that has nearly …read more Continue reading Get Thee to Git
Elliot Williams is back from vacation, and he and Al Williams got together to talk about the best Hackaday posts from the last week. Of course, the Raspberry Pi RP2350 …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 287: Raspberry Pi Woes, Blacker than Black, and Printing with Klipper
When you think of Sony, you probably think of a technology company that’s been around forever. However, as [Asianometry] points out, it really formed in the tough years after World …read more Continue reading How Sony Mastered the Transistor