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USB-C eliminates proprietary barrel plug chargers that we’ve been using for laptops and myriads of other devices. It fights proprietary phone charger standards by explicitly making them non-compliant, bullying companies …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: Power Delivery
If you’ve been following along our USB-C saga, you know that the CC wire in the USB-C cables is used for communications and polarity detection. However, what’s not as widely …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: Resistors And Emarkers
Are you one of the lucky ones to own a Hackaday Supercon 2022 badge? Would you like to make it even easier to program than it already is? [brokebit] has …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022 Badge Gets A Tinkering Helper Add-on
It can be surprisingly hard to find decent analogies when you’re teaching electronics basics. The water flow analogy, for instance, is decent for explaining Ohm’s law, but it breaks down …read more Continue reading Electronics Explained with Mechanical Devices
In USB-C Power Delivery (PD) standard, the PPS (Programmable Power Supply) mode is an optional mode that lets you request a non-standard voltage from a charger, with the ability to …read more Continue reading Use USB-C Chargers To Top Up Li-Ion Packs With This Hack
[RichardG] has noticed a weird discrepancy – his Ryzen mainboard ought to have had fourteen USB3 ports, but somehow, only exposed thirteen of them. Unlike other mainboards in this lineup, …read more Continue reading Dirty USB-C Tricks: One Port For The Price Of Two
Say, you’re starting your electronics journey with a few projects in mind. You have an ESP8266 board like the Wemos D1, a LiIon battery, you want to build a small …read more Continue reading Battery-Powered ESP8266 Sensor? Never Been Simpler
Ever want to play with an FPGA, but don’t have the hardware? Now, if you have one of those ever-abundant Pi Picos, you can start playing with Verilog without getting …read more Continue reading Want To Play With FPGAs? Use Your Pico!
Electron is software for running web-written apps in the same way as native ones, and has gotten plenty of bad press for its RAM appetite around these parts. But while …read more Continue reading Turn a Webpage into a Desktop App With Gluon
You don’t always need much to build an FPV rig – especially if you’re willing to take advantage of the power of modern smartphones. [joe57005] is showing off his VR …read more Continue reading 2022 FPV Contest: ESP32-Powered FPV Car Uses Javascript For VR Magic