Collaborate Disseminate
It’s not often that a single photo can tell you pretty much everything you need to know about a project, but the spectrum analyzer screenshot nearby is the perfect summary …read more Continue reading Wien Bridge Oscillator Drives Distortion Into the Floor
The range of characters that can be represented by Unicode is truly bewildering. If there’s a symbol that was ever used to represent a sound or a concept anywhere in …read more Continue reading Building Up Unicode Characters One Bit at a Time
So far in this series, pretty much every material we’ve covered has had to undergo a significant industrial process to transform it from its natural state to a more useful …read more Continue reading Mining and Refining: Quartz, Both Natural and Synthetic
For all their talk of cooperation and shared interests, the nations of the world put an awful lot of effort into spying on each other. All this espionage is an …read more Continue reading It’s Numbers All The Way Down With This Tape Measure Number Station Antenna
You’ve got to hand it to [Les Wright]; he really knows how to dig into optical arcana and present topics in an interesting way. Case in point: an electro-optical control …read more Continue reading Electro-Optical Control of Lasers with a Licorice Twist
There’s a lot to like about resin 3D printing. The detail, the smooth surface finish, the mechanical simplicity of the printer itself compared to an FDM printer. But there are …read more Continue reading Clean Up Your Resin-Printing Rinse with Dialysis
If there’s more to life than just a workshop full of tools, it’s probably a workshop full of tools that you’ve built yourself. At least that was the thinking behind …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: The Gearing Up Challenge Finalists
Doing anything that requires measurements in nanometers is pretty difficult, and seems like it would require some pretty sophisticated equipment. But when the task at hand is growing oxide layers …read more Continue reading Growing Oxides on Silicon on the Road to DIY Semiconductors
Right-to-repair has been a hot-button topic lately, with everyone from consumers to farmers pretty much united behind the idea that owning an item should come with a plausible path to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 3, 2023
At the risk of stating the obvious, even when you’ve got unlimited resources and access to the best engineering minds, self-driving cars are hard. Building a multi-ton guided missile that …read more Continue reading Teaching a Mini-Tesla to Steer Itself