Collaborate Disseminate
Reverse-engineered schematics are de rigeur around these parts, largely because they’re often the key to very cool hardware hacks. We don’t get to see many mechanical reverse-engineering efforts, though, which …read more Continue reading Hackable Ham Radio Gives Up Its Mechanical Secrets
The smell of resin SLA printing is like the weather — everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it. At least until now, as [Aris Alder] tackles the …read more Continue reading Keep Your Lungs Clean and Happy with a DIY Supplied-Air Respirator
Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system have received the lion’s share of attention. That makes sense; it’s a whole lot easier …read more Continue reading Solar Dynamics Observatory: Our Solar Early Warning System
It’s said that “Golf is a good walk spoiled,” so is attaching an amateur radio to a bike a formula for spoiling a nice ride? Not according to [Wesley Pidhaychuk …read more Continue reading Going Ham Mobile on a Bicycle
Begun, the Spectrum Wars have. First, it was AM radio getting the shaft (last item) and being yanked out of cars for the supposed impossibility of peaceful coexistence with rolling …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 7, 2024
If something has a “smart” in its name, you know that it’s talking to someone else, and the topic of conversation is probably you. You may or may not like …read more Continue reading Smartwatch Snitches on Itself and Enables Reverse Engineering
Helium-neon lasers may be little more than glorified neon signs, but there’s just something about that glowing glass tube that makes the whole process of stimulated emission easier to understand. …read more Continue reading Lasers Al Fresco: Fun with Open-Cavity Lasers
It’s official: [Engineer Bo] wins the internet with a video titled “Finding NEMA 17,” wherein he builds a dynamometer to find the best stepper motor in the popular NEMA 17 frame …read more Continue reading Putting Some Numbers on Your NEMAs
A couple of weeks back we featured a story (third item) about a chunk of space jetsam that tried to peacefully return to Earth, only to find a Florida family’s …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 30, 2024
Dice are about the simplest machines possible, and they’ve been used since before recorded history to generate random numbers. But no machine is so simple that a little needless complexity …read more Continue reading Spinning Magnets Do Your Dice Rolling for You