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Reflow hotplates are a wonderful tool for PCB assembly if you can keep your designs single-sided. The 946C hotplate in particular has been on hackers’ radar for a while – …read more Continue reading Controller For 946C Hotplate Adds Reflow Profile Upload Over BLE
If you’re dealing with a chronic illness, the ability to continuously monitor your symptoms is indispensable, helping you gain valuable insights into what makes your body tick – or, rather, …read more Continue reading Urine Flow Measurement Made Accessible With uroFlow
If you ever looked for open-source e-readers, you’ve no doubt seen [Joey Castillo]’s Open Book reader, but you might not yet have seen the Abridged version he’s building around a …read more Continue reading Open Book Abridged: OSHW E-Reader Now Simplified, Pico-Driven
Bringing modern connectivity to retro computers is an endearing field- with the simplicity of last-century hardware and software being a double-edged sword, often, you bring a powerful and tiny computer …read more Continue reading Pi Pico W Does PCMCIA, Gets This IBM PC110 Online
The black blobs on cheap PCBs haunt those of us with a habit of taking things apart when they fail. There’s no part number to look up, no pinout to …read more Continue reading Epoxy Blob Excised Out Of Broken Multimeter, Replaced With A QFP
Modularity is a fun topic for us. There’s something satisfying about seeing a complex system split into parts and these parts made replaceable. We often want some parts of our …read more Continue reading Future Brings CPU Modules, And The Future Is Now
Git is a wonderful tool that can multiply your project’s impact, or make your project easier to manage by an order of magnitude. Some of us hackers don’t yet know …read more Continue reading Git Intro For Hardware Hackers
Need some kind of battery for a project? You can always find a few Lithium-Ion (LiIon) batteries around! They’re in our phones, laptops, and a myriad other battery-powered things of …read more Continue reading Lithium-Ion Batteries Are Your Friends
Knowing his friend is a first-person shooter enthusiast, [Solderking] came up with a unique modified XBox controller as a gift. Tongue in cheek, you could argue that this controller is …read more Continue reading Oops! All Analog Sticks
A few days ago we covered a project that brought Ethernet connectivity to the Raspberry Pi Pico using little more than some twisted pair and a RJ-45 connector. It was …read more Continue reading An Elegant Ethernet Library For Your Next RP2040 Project