Collaborate Disseminate
Six tiny gears, a few fancy pins, and some clever casting are what it takes to build this tiny orrery. And patience — a lot of patience, too. As model …read more Continue reading Tiny Orrery Is a Watchmaker’s Tour de Force
Here at Hackaday, we love it when someone picks up the ball from a previous project and runs with it. That’s what we’re all about, really — putting out cool …read more Continue reading An Improved Spectrometer, No Lasers Required
Join us on Wednesday, May 29 at noon Pacific for the Camera and Lens Repair Hack Chat with Anthony Kouttron! Unlike the normies, most of us are pretty comfortable looking …read more Continue reading Camera and Lens Repair Hack Chat
Another day, another crop of newly minted minimal astronauts, as Blue Origin’s New Shepard made a successful suborbital flight this week. Everything seemed to go according to plan, at least …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 26, 2024
There are two types of people in the world: those who have no idea what a regular expression is, and those who not only know what they are but can …read more Continue reading Regular Expressions Finally Come to Microsoft Excel
With Elliot off on vacation, Tom and Dan made a valiant effort to avoid the dreaded “clip show” and provide you with the tastiest hacker treats of the week. Did …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 272: Desktop EDM, Silence of the Leaves, and the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation
With smartphone apps and spreadsheets being the main ways people crunch their numbers nowadays, there’s not much call for a desktop calculator. Or any other physical calculator, for that matter. …read more Continue reading Console Calculator Moves One Step Closer to Original Design
Stay in the amateur radio hobby long enough and you might end up with quite a collection of antennas. With privileges that almost extend from DC to daylight, one antenna …read more Continue reading Passive Diplexer Makes One Antenna Act Like Two
If there was one question we heard most often this week, it was “Did you see it?” With “it” referring to the stunning display of aurora borealis — and australis, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 19, 2024
When the job at hand is measuring something with micron-range precision, thoughts generally turn to a tool with a Mitutoyo or Starrett nameplate. But with a clever design and a …read more Continue reading Flexures Keep This Printed Displacement Sensor In Line