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Ethernet cable testers are dime a dozen, but none of them are as elegant and multimeter-friendly as this tester from our Hackaday.io regular, [Bharbour]. An Ethernet cable has 8 wires, …read more Continue reading Ethernet Tester Needs No LEDs, Only Your Multimeter
We’ve seen a wide variety of mask sanitization solutions, and now, [spiritplumber] from [Robots Everywhere] brings us a frugal and ingenious design – one that you barely even need tools …read more Continue reading Mask Sanitization That Anyone Can Build
After browsing Thingiverse for some printable PCB probe designs, [Henry York] looked around and found a wooden clothespin on his desk. After some collaboration between his 3D printer and his …read more Continue reading Need To Probe Circuits? Remember About Clothespins!
Often, financial motivation results in people writing great educational material for hackers. Such is absolutely the case with this extensive documentation blog post on addressable LEDs by [DeRun]. This article …read more Continue reading Teaching You Everything You Might Have Missed About Addressable LEDs
In our “hardware development gets serious” news, we’ve recently learned about AllSpice, a startup building hardware development collaboration infrastructure for companies. Hardware developers are great at building hardware tools for …read more Continue reading AllSpice Building A Hardware Development Ecosystem For Companies
People don’t usually go as far as [Wenting Zhang] has – designing a new IDE SSD board for a portable x86 computer made in 2006. That said, it’s been jaw-dropping …read more Continue reading Custom SSD Gives New Life to Handheld Atom PC
A right-to-repair battle is being waged in courts. The results of it, we might not see for a decade. The Caps Wiki is a project tackling our repairability problem from …read more Continue reading Caps Wiki: Place For You To Share Your Repair Notes
On Tech Twitter, some people are known for Their Thing – for example, [A13 (@sad_electronics)], (when they’re not busy designing electronics), searches the net to find outstanding parts to marvel …read more Continue reading The USB-C Connectors You Never Knew You Wanted To Avoid
The principles of open-source hardware are starting to make great strides in scientific research fields. [Walker Arce] tells us about his paper co-authored with [Jeffrey R. Stevens], about a dog …read more Continue reading Open-Hardware Dog Treat Dispenser is a Stepping Stone For Behavioral Research
We’ve gotten used to the GPIO-available functions of Raspberry Pi computers remaining largely the same over the years, which is why it might have flown a little bit under the …read more Continue reading Did You Know That The Raspberry Pi 4 Has More SPI, I2C, UART Ports?