Collaborate Disseminate
When everything used wires, it was easy to splice them or replace them. Not so much with PC boards, but everyone has their favorite method for repairing a broken trace. …read more Continue reading Five Ways to Repair Broken PCB Traces
If you were expecting a post about ancient kings and queens, you are probably at the wrong website. [Burn Heart] has a fascination with ancient measuring devices and set out …read more Continue reading Rulers of the Ancient World — Literally!
Modern tech is great, but we have to admit that we sometimes miss when electronic things looked complicated. A modern computer looks dull compared to, say, an IBM 360. Control …read more Continue reading Home Automation Panel Looks Industrial
Get your weekly fix of great hacks with your guides, Elliot Williams and Al Williams. This week, the guys talk about hacking airline WiFi, vanishing cloud services, and hobbies adjacent …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 279: Solar Flares, Flash Cells, and Free Airline WiFi
We have to admit that we often think about building unusual things, but we hadn’t really considered building our own hydroelectric dam before. [Mini Construction] did, apparently, and there’s a …read more Continue reading Build Your Own Hydroelectric Dam
We’ve all been there. You are on a flight, there’s WiFi, but you hate to pay the few bucks just to watch dog videos. What to do? Well, we would …read more Continue reading Hacking Airline WiFi the Hard Way
If you’ve ever seen the cockpit of an airplane, you’ve probably noticed the round ball that shows your attitude, and if you are like us, you’ve wondered exactly how the …read more Continue reading Unlocking the Mystery of an Aircraft ADI
[Thomas Scherrer] likes to tear down old test equipment, and often, we remember the devices he opens up or — at least — we’ve heard of them. However, this time, …read more Continue reading Korean Multifunction Counter Teardown
Conventional batteries have anodes and cathodes, but a new design from the University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego lacks an anode. While this has been done …read more Continue reading New Battery Has no Anode
On the one hand, we were impressed that a tiny Brother label maker actually uses CUPS to support printing. Like [Sdomi], we were less than impressed at how old a …read more Continue reading Hacking a Brother Label Maker: Is your CUPS half empty or half full?