Collaborate Disseminate
With Superconference 2024 in the books, Dan joined Elliot, fresh off his flight back from Pasadena, to look through the week (or two) in hacks. It was a pretty good …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 295: Circuit Graver, Zinc Creep, and Video Tubes
If there’s an enduring image of how large steel structures used to be made, it’s probably the hot riveting process. You’ve probably seen grainy old black-and-white films of a riveting …read more Continue reading Mechanisms: Tension Control Bolts
We say this with the greatest respect, but [Joel] — your exercise routine is horrible! Kudos for getting up and doing something, but 108 trips up and down the stairs? …read more Continue reading Clever Circuit Makes Exercise Slightly Less Boring
It’s been nearly four years since the Arecibo Telescope collapsed, an event the world got to witness in unprecedented detail thanks to strategically positioned drones. They captured breathtaking video of …read more Continue reading Zinc Creep and Electroplasticity: Why Arecibo Collapsed
If you’re planning on working satellites or doing any sort of RF work where the signal lives down in the dirt, you’re going to need a low-noise amplifier. That’s typically …read more Continue reading A Lesson in RF Design Thanks to This Homebrew LNA
“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?” Perhaps not anymore, if this Ig Nobel-worthy analysis of the infinite monkey theorem is to be believed. For …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 3, 2024
If you need to measure the temperature of something, chances are good that you could think up half a dozen ways to do it, pretty much all of which would …read more Continue reading Measuring Temperature Without a Thermometer
If you’re like us, you’ve got at least one bin dedicated to keeping the random hardware you just can’t bear to part with. In our case it’s mostly populated with …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Hardware Sorter Keeps It Simple
At this point in the tech dystopia cycle, it’s no surprise that the initial purchase price of a piece of technology is likely not the last payment you’ll make. Almost …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: Subscription EV Charger Becomes Standalone, Briefly
We hate to admit it, but whenever we see an article about either Voyager spacecraft, our thoughts immediately turn to worst-case scenarios. One of these days, we’ll be forced to …read more Continue reading Voyager 1 Fault Forces Switch to S-Band