Collaborate Disseminate
During World War II, shipboard life in the United States Navy was a gamble. No matter which theater of operations you found yourself in, the enemy was all around on …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Deadly Shipmate
We received belated word this week of the passage of Ward Christensen, who died unexpectedly back in October at the age of 78. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 24, 2024
These days, oscilloscope hacking is all about enabling features that the manufacturer baked into the hardware but locked out in the firmware. Those hacks are cool, of course, but back …read more Continue reading Double Your Analog Oscilloscope Fun with this Retro Beam Splitter
[Dale Cook] has cats, and as he readily admits, cats are jerks. We’d use stronger language than that, but either way it became a significant impediment to making progress with …read more Continue reading RFID From First Principles and Saving a Cat
When you tear into an old piece of test equipment, you’re probably going to come up against some surprises. That’s especially true of high-precision gear like oscilloscopes from the time …read more Continue reading Close Shave for an Old Oscilloscope Saved with a Sticky Note
When electronics release the Magic Smoke, more often than not it’s a fairly sedate event. Something overheats, the packaging gets hot enough to emit that characteristic and unmistakable odor, and …read more Continue reading Quick and Very Dirty Repair Gets Smoked PLC Back in the Game
Have you ever wondered how a magnetometer works? We sure have, which was why we were happy to stumble upon this article on simple homebrew fluxgate magnetometers. As [Maurycy] explains, …read more Continue reading Simple Stack of Ferrites Shows How Fluxgate Magnetometers Work
SDRs have been a game changer for radio hobbyists, but for ham radio applications, they often need a little help. That’s especially true of SDR dongles, which don’t have a …read more Continue reading Junk Box Build Helps Hams with SDR
True weather geeks will disagree, but there might be a better way to know how to dress for the day than divining what the weather will likely be from the …read more Continue reading Landscape Motif Makes This E-Ink Weather Display Easy to Understand
Fair warning, while the first item this week has no obvious connection to hacking, when 43 Rhesus monkeys escape from a lab, it’s just something that needs to be discussed. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 11, 2024