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[Dan Julio] owns a pair of Miniware multimeter tweezers, a nifty helper tool for all things SMD exploration. One day, he found them broken – unable to recognize any component …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: Glue-Hindered Smart Tweezer Repair Involves a Rebuild
When [Adam, HA8KDA] is not busy with his PhD studies, he mentors a group of students interested in engineering. To teach them a wide range of topics, he set out …read more Continue reading Electronics And C++ Education With an ATTiny13
This year, we’ve already seen sizeable leaks of NVIDIA source code, and a release of open-source drivers for NVIDIA Tegra. It seems NVIDIA decided to amp it up, and just …read more Continue reading NVIDIA Releases Drivers With Openness Flavor
Some people state that ESP8266 is tolerant of 5 V logic levels on its GPIOs, while others vehemently disagree, pointing at the datasheet-stated 3.6 V maximum. Datasheets aren’t source code …read more Continue reading Is ESP8266 5 V Tolerant? This Curve Tracer Says Yes!
Disposable vape pens, a sub-genre of electronic cigarettes, have been a fad for a few years now – they’re small self-contained devices with a rechargeable battery and some vape liquid …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Disposable Vape Pens Turned Project Parts
[Jure Spiler] was at a flea market and got himself a spectrophotometer — a device that measures absorbance and transmittance of light at different wavelengths. This particular model seems to …read more Continue reading Exporting Data from Old Gear Through LCD Sniffing
Since Windows 11 has announced its TPM module requirement, the prices for previously abundant and underappreciated TPM add-on boards for PC motherboards have skyrocketed. We’ve been getting chips and soldering …read more Continue reading TPM Module Too Expensive? DIY Your Own Easily!
I2C is a wonderful interface. With four wires and only two GPIOs, you can connect a whole lot of sensors and devices – in parallel, at that! You will see …read more Continue reading The Connector Zoo: I2C Ecosystems
[aleaksah] got himself a Mi Smart Kettle Pro, a kettle with Bluetooth connectivity, and a smartphone app to go with it. Despite all the smarts, it couldn’t be turned on …read more Continue reading Dumping Encrypted-At-Rest Firmware Of Xiaomi Smart Kettle
[Dirksavage88] tells us a story about developing a simple BEC in times of chip shortage. He needed a small 5V/3A regulator board for a servo rail on his drone, and …read more Continue reading Anxieties Of Hardware Bringup During Parts Shortage