Collaborate Disseminate
Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without …read more Continue reading Converting an 80s Typewriter Into a Linux Terminal
Typewriters may be long past their heyday, but just because PCs, word processor software, and cheap printers have made them largely obsolete doesn’t mean the world is better off without …read more Continue reading Converting an 80s Typewriter Into a Linux Terminal
TL;DR — when [Colin Furze] is your “safety inspector,” you really should be reconsidering your project goals. Most of us have probably by now seen the SawStop brand of self-stopping …read more Continue reading Homemade SawStop Attachment Is Just About As Sketchy As It Sounds
Back in high school, I joined the stage crew — because of course I did. As student theater groups go, it was pretty active, and with two shows to produce …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What Was Your First Electronics Win?
Don’t look up! As of the time of this writing, there’s a decent chance that a Chinese Long March 5B booster has already completed its uncontrolled return to Earth, hopefully …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 31, 2022
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney for their take on the hottest hacks in a hot, hot week. We found a bunch of unusual mechanisms this …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast 179: Danger Chess, Corona Motors, an Omni-Walker, and a Fast Talking Telescope
A question: does anyone who was around in the early days of the 8-bit computer revolution remember a dual-CPU 6502 portable machine like this one? Or just a dual-CPU machine? …read more Continue reading PERSEUS-9, the Dual-6502 Portable Machine That Should Have Been
Even from the very earliest days of the automobile age, cars and trucks have been hybrids of mechanical and electrical design. For every piston sliding up and down in a …read more Continue reading The Surprisingly Manual Process of Building Automotive Wire Harnesses
The term “adaptive optics” sounds like something that should be really complicated and really expensive. And in general, the ability to control the properties of optical elements is sufficiently difficult …read more Continue reading A Tiny Forest of Resistors Makes for Quick and Dirty Adaptive Optics
OK, maybe that won’t buff right out. NASA has released a more detailed analysis of the damage suffered by the James Webb Space Telescope in a run-in with a micrometeoroid, …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 24, 2022