Collaborate Disseminate
[Mark] starts a post from a bit ago with: “… maybe you have also heard that SystemVerilog is simply an extension of Verilog, focused on testing and verification.” This is …read more Continue reading What is SystemVerilog, Really?
[Extreme Kits] asks the question: “What the hell is a luminiferous theremin?” We have to admit, we know what a thermin is, but that’s as far as we got. You’ve …read more Continue reading The Luminiferous Theremin
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams reflect on the fact that, as humans, we have–at most–two eyes and no warp drives. While hacking might not be the world’s most …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 283: Blinding Lasers, LEDs, and ETs
From the “why didn’t we think of that” department comes [dupontgu’s] pong mouse project. The mouse appears and acts like a normal computer mouse until you click the scroll wheel. …read more Continue reading Mouse Doesn’t Play Pong… It IS Pong!
Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the …read more Continue reading The First Real Sputnik
The classic crystal radio was an oatmeal box with some wire and a few parts. [Michael Simpson] has something very different. He found an assembled Philmore “selective” radio kit. The …read more Continue reading Vintage Crystal Radio Draws the Waves
Even if you don’t like to build replicas of movie robots, you can often draw inspiration from cinema. Everyone knows Robby the Robot, Gort, and R2D2. But [Atomic Snack Bar] …read more Continue reading Obscure Sci Fi Robots
In the late 1800s, the stereograph — sometimes incorrectly called a stereopticon — was a big craze. You’d view two side-by-side images through some lenses and see a three-dimensional image. …read more Continue reading Old Time Stereographs Get New Photos
You can only imagine that when they made Star Trek back in the 1960s, they would have laughed if anyone suggested they’d still be making the show nearly six decades …read more Continue reading Serve Your Next Website with QuickBasic
If you have a late-model laptop, you’ve probably seen how the chargers magnetically snap into place. In theory, this should be easy to recreate for your own purposes. But why …read more Continue reading Print Your Own Magnetic Connector