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The media got their collective knickers in a twist this week with the news that Wyoming is banning the sale of electric vehicles in the state. Headlines like that certainly …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 22, 2023
Surface mount components have been a game changer for the electronics hobbyist, but doing reflow soldering right requires some way to evenly heat the board. You might need to buy …read more Continue reading Internal Heating Element Makes These PCBs Self-Soldering
As disruptive and generally unpleasant as the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 were, they often ended up being a catalyst for significant personal growth. That was often literal growth, thanks to …read more Continue reading From a 6502 Breadboard Computer to Lode Runner and Beyond
When the automobile industry really began to take off in the 1930s, radar was barely in its infancy, and there was no reason to think something that complicated would ever …read more Continue reading Take a Deep Dive Into a Commodity Automotive Radar Chip
Join us on Wednesday, January 18 at noon Pacific for the Machining with Electricity Hack Chat with Daniel Herrington! With few exceptions, metalworking has largely been about making chips, and …read more Continue reading Machining with Electricity Hack Chat
It looks like the Martian winter may have claimed another victim, with reports that Chinese ground controllers have lost contact with the Zhurong rover. The solar-powered rover was put into …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 15, 2023
There was an all-too-brief period in history where typewriters went from clunky, purely mechanical beasts to streamlined, portable electromechanical devices. But when the 80s came around and the PC revolution …read more Continue reading Giving an Old Typewriter a Mind of Its Own with GPT-3
It doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while we stumble upon someone who has taken obsolete but really cool phone-switching equipment and built a private switched telephone in …read more Continue reading Homebrew Telephone Exchange Keeps the Family in Touch, in the House and Beyond
Sadly, the usual CO2-powered suspects in the DIY laser cutter market are woefully incapable of cutting metal. Sure, they’ll cut the heck out of plywood and acrylic, and most will …read more Continue reading DIY Fiber Laser Adds Metal Cutting to the Mix
Even for those with paraskevidekatriaphobia, today is your lucky day as Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney sit under ladders with umbrellas while holding black cats to talk …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 201: Faking a Transmission, Making Nuclear Fuel, and a Slidepot With a Twist