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Jack of all trades, master of none, as the saying goes, and that’s especially true for PCB prototyping tools. Sure, it’s possible to use a CNC router to mill out …read more Continue reading CNC Router and Fiber Laser Bring the Best of Both Worlds to PCB Prototyping
Join us on Wednesday, March 5 at noon Pacific for the Deep Space DX Hack Chat with David Prutchi! In the past 70-odd years, the world’s space-faring nations have flung …read more Continue reading Deep Space DX Hack Chat
It’s been quite a week for asteroid 2024 YR4, which looked like it was going to live up to its “city killer” moniker only to be demoted to a fraction …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 2, 2025
What do you do with a four-megapixel monochrome digital camera from the 90s that needed a dedicated PC with a frame grabber card to do anything useful? Easy — you …read more Continue reading Custom Frame Grabber Gets Vintage Kodak Digital Camera Back in the Game
FR4 is FR4, right? For a lot of PCB designs, the answer is yes — the particular characteristics of the substrate material don’t impact your design in any major way. …read more Continue reading PCB Dielectric Constant Measurements, Three Ways
Ho-hum — another week, another high-profile bricking. In a move anyone could see coming, Humane has announced that their pricey AI Pin widgets will cease to work in any meaningful …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 23, 2025
“World’s best” is a mighty ambitious claim, regardless of what you’ve built. But from the look of [Marius Hornberger]’s tricked-out miter fence, it seems like a pretty reasonable claim. For …read more Continue reading Tricked Out Miter Fence Has All the Features
If you think sonic booms from supersonic aircraft are a nuisance, wait until the sky is full of planes propelled by up-scaled versions of this interesting but deafening audio resonance …read more Continue reading Acoustic Engine Harnesses the Power of Sound
If you think sonic booms from supersonic aircraft are a nuisance, wait until the sky is full of planes propelled by up-scaled versions of this interesting but deafening audio resonance …read more Continue reading Acoustic Engine Harnesses the Power of Sound
While not impossible, replicating the machines and processes of a modern semiconductor fab is a pretty steep climb for the home gamer. Sure, we’ve seen it done, but nanoscale photolithography …read more Continue reading Pulsed Deposition Points a Different Path to DIY Semiconductors