Collaborate Disseminate
For anyone with even the slightest bit of engineering interest, wind turbines are hard to resist. Everything about them is just so awesome, in the literal sense of the word …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Wind Turbine Has All the Features, Just Smaller
Every once in a while we stumble across something so simple yet so clever that we just have to call it out. This custom linear Hall effect sensor is a …read more Continue reading Clever Mechanism Makes a Linear Control from a Rotary Hall Sensor
Like many of you, I’ve become the designated “fix-it” person for my family and friends. While it can be a lot of work — I just finished an oil change …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What’s Your Worst Repair Win?
Something odd is afoot in the mountains around Salt Lake City, Utah, at least according to local media reports of remote radio installations that have been popping up for at …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 8, 2023
A “Check Engine” light on your dashboard could mean anything from a loose gas cap to a wallet-destroying repair in the offing. For [Dean Segovis], his CEL was indicating a …read more Continue reading Replace Your Automatic Transmission With a Bunch of Relays
Anyone who has ever made a living writing code has probably had some version of the following drilled into their head: “Always write your code so the next person can …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Critical Code Reading, 70s Style
Lasers are known for the monochromatic nature of their light, so much so that you might never have thought there could be such a thing as a white laser. But …read more Continue reading A White-Light Laser, On the Cheap
There was a time not too long ago when “LOL” actually meant something online. If someone went through the trouble of putting LOL into an email or text, you could …read more Continue reading Machine Learning Makes Sure Your LOLs Are Genuine
Over the years, and especially lately, we’ve seen tons of single-board retrocomputer builds. That’s fine with us — the more, the merrier. But they all start to run together a …read more Continue reading Squeezing a Minimalist 6502 Retrocomputer Onto a Single Breadboard
There’s nothing more satisfying than finding a broken piece of gear in the trash and bringing it back to life. Satisfying, but also potentially more time-consuming — someone tossed it …read more Continue reading Reverse Engineering Saves Weller With a Wonky LCD From the Trash Pile