Collaborate Disseminate
When one thinks of applications for 3D printing, optical components don’t seem to be a good fit. With the possible exception of Fresnel lenses, FDM printing doesn’t seem up to …read more Continue reading A 3D Printed Grinder for Printed Lens Blanks
Sometimes the most interesting part of a project isn’t the widget itself, but what it teaches you about the manufacturing process. The story of the manufacturing scale-up of this Atari …read more Continue reading Lessons in Mass Production from an Atari Punk Console
Ceiling clocks were a bit of a thing back in the days when clock radios were a fixture of nightstands. The idea was to project the time onto the ceiling …read more Continue reading Don’t Look Up, or You’ll See the Time from This VFD Projection Clock
Somebody must really have it in for Cruise, because the bad press just keeps piling up for the robo-taxi company. We’ve highlighted many of the company’s woes in this space, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: November 12, 2023
When you say “recapping” it conjures up an image of a dusty old chassis with point-to-point wiring with a bunch of dried-out old capacitors or dodgy-looking electrolytics that need replacement. …read more Continue reading Leaky SMD Electrolytics? Try These Brute Force Removal Methods
If you’re like us, you’ve never spent a second thinking about what happens when you dunk an ordinary LED into liquid nitrogen. That’s too bad because as it turns out, …read more Continue reading Neopixels? Try Liquid Nitrogen to Color Shift Your LEDs Instead
Homebrew reflow projects generally follow a pretty simple formula: find a thrift shop toaster oven or hot plate, add a microcontroller and a means to turn the heating element on …read more Continue reading Solder Two Boards at Once With This Dual Reflow Plate
Perhaps no words fill me with more dread than, “I hear there’s something going around.” In my experience, you hear this when some nasty bug has worked its way into …read more Continue reading Hands on with Boondock Echo
We all know the old maxim: if it’s too good to be true, it’s probably made with fake components. OK, maybe that’s not exactly how it goes, but in our …read more Continue reading Cheap Power Supplies with Fake Chips Might Not be That Bad
Probably the last thing anyone wants when coming home from a long day at work or a trip is to be hassled at the last possible moment — gaining entrance …read more Continue reading Does Getting Into Your Garage Really Need to Be Difficult?