Collaborate Disseminate
A lot of what real engineering is all about is designing to the limits of your materials, with a healthy margin for error. On the other hand, seat-of-the-pants engineering often …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: Car Starter Motors Aren’t the Best Fit for eBikes
Few things are more annoying than being at a conference and having an inconsiderate group conducting a vociferous sidebar that drowns out the speaker. More annoying still is the inevitable …read more Continue reading Automated Shusher Keeps Conference Loudmouths in Line
The classic “Magic Eye” tuning indicator was a fantastic piece of vacuum tube technology that graced all kinds of electronic gear for a fair fraction of the 20th century. But …read more Continue reading The Eyes Have It with This Solid State Magic Eye
Who says you can’t teach an old robot new tricks? Nobody, actually. That saying is about dogs. But it applies to robots too, at least judging by the way this …read more Continue reading Retired Welding Robot Picks Up Side Hustle as CNC Router
When it comes to cryptocurrency security, what’s the best way to secure the private key? Obviously, the correct answer is to write it on a sticky note and put it …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 9, 2023
Hackaday readers fit into two broad categories: those who experienced the wild and woolly early days of the Internet, and those who are jealous that they missed it. And it’s …read more Continue reading Web Server Like It’s 1998 with This Restored Internet Appliance
It doesn’t matter how you pronounce it, because whichever way you choose to say “GIF” is guaranteed to cheese off about half the people listening. Such is the state of …read more Continue reading Mechanical GIF Animates with the Power of Magnets
The 16×2 LCD display is a classic in the microcontroller world, and for good reason. Add a couple of wires, download a library, mash out a few lines of code, …read more Continue reading Spice Up the Humble 16×2 LCD with Big Digits
If you’re hoping that this AI-powered logic analyzer will help you quickly debug that wonky digital circuit on your bench with the magic of AI, we’re sorry to disappoint you. …read more Continue reading ChatGPT Powers a Different Kind of Logic Analyzer
For most of us, vacuum tubes haven’t appeared in any of our schematics or BOMs in — well, ever. Once mass-manufacturing made reliable transistors cheap enough for hobbyists, vacuum tubes …read more Continue reading Reshoring Vacuum Tube Manufacturing, One Tube at a Time