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Tiny Signal Generator Revealed

Posted on March 23, 2024 by Al Williams

There was a time when test equipment was big and heavy. Those days are gone, and [Kiss Analog] shows us the inside of a Uni-T UTG962E arbitrary waveform generator. The …read more Continue reading Tiny Signal Generator Revealed→

Posted in arbitrary waveform generator, teardown, test equipment, uni-t

Hackaday Podcast Episode 263: Better DCMA, AI Spreadsheet Play, and Home Assistants Your Way

Posted on March 22, 2024 by Al Williams

No need to wonder what stories Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams were reading this week. They’ll tell you about them in this week’s podcast. The guys revisit the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 263: Better DCMA, AI Spreadsheet Play, and Home Assistants Your Way→

Posted in Hackaday Columns, Hackaday Podcast, Podcasts

Weird Things To Do With FPGAs

Posted on March 22, 2024 by Al Williams

There’s an old joke about how can you find the height of a building using a barometer. One of the punchlines is to drop the barometer from the roof and …read more Continue reading Weird Things To Do With FPGAs→

Posted in FPGA, ring oscillator, RNG, strain gauge

The Long Strange Trip to US Color TV

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Al Williams

We are always fascinated when someone can take something and extend it in a clever way without changing the original thing. In the computer world, that’s old hat. New computers …read more Continue reading The Long Strange Trip to US Color TV→

Posted in CBS, Color TV, Featured, history, ntsc, RCA, tv

Repairing a Gear with a Candle (and Some Epoxy)

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Al Williams

You have a broken gear you need to fix, but there’s no equivalent part available. That’s the issue [Well Done Tips] faced with a plastic gear from a lawnmower. While …read more Continue reading Repairing a Gear with a Candle (and Some Epoxy)→

Posted in epoxy, epoxy casting, Gear, repair hacks

Breadboard SDR Doesn’t Need Much

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Al Williams

[Grug Huhler] built a simple Tayloe mixer and detector on a breadboard. He decided to extend it a bit to be a full-blown software defined radio (SDR). He then used …read more Continue reading Breadboard SDR Doesn’t Need Much→

Posted in radio hacks, sdr, software-defined radio

Learn AI via Spreadsheet

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Al Williams

While we’ve been known to use and abuse spreadsheets in the past, we haven’t taken it to the level of [Spreadsheets Are All You Need]. The site provides a spreadsheet …read more Continue reading Learn AI via Spreadsheet→

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, spreadsheet

A Nine-Year-Old’s Z80 Drawing Program

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Al Williams

Full disclosure: [Óscar] isn’t nine now, but he was in 1988 when he wrote LOCS, a drawing program in Z80 assembly modeled after Logo. You can see a demo of …read more Continue reading A Nine-Year-Old’s Z80 Drawing Program→

Posted in assembly language, logo, retrocomputing, software hacks, z80

Do We Need a New Hardware Description Language?

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Al Williams

When you think about hardware description languages, you probably think of Verilog or VHDL. There are others, of course, but those are the two elephants in the room. Do we …read more Continue reading Do We Need a New Hardware Description Language?→

Posted in FPGA, hdl, SystemVerilog, verilog

Folding Solar Panel is Underpowered

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Al Williams

If you hang out on certain kinds of sites, you can find huge-capacity USB drives and high-power yet tiny solar panels, all at shockingly low prices. Of course, the USB …read more Continue reading Folding Solar Panel is Underpowered→

Posted in solar panel, solar power, teardown

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