Collaborate Disseminate
In a slightly safer departure away from jetpack roller-skating and flinging around bolts of lightning, [Ian Charnas] has been hacking retro video games. After a lot of hard work [Ian] …read more Continue reading Hacked Punch-Out Controlled With Actual Punches
No matter how its done, with whatever level of fakery, magnetic levitation just looks cool. We don’t know about you, but merely walking past the tackiest gadget shop, the displays …read more Continue reading Development Of Magnetic Locking Idea Shows Great Progress
Making a small number of things with an embedded application is pretty straightforward, you usually simply plug in a programmer or debugger dongle (such as an AVRISP2) into your board …read more Continue reading Adafruit AVRProg Grows UPDI Interface Support
[Zach Armstrong] presents for your viewing pleasure a simple guide to building a solid-state Tesla coil. The design is based around a self-resonant setup using the UCC2742x gate driver IC, …read more Continue reading A Builders Guide For The Perfect Solid-State Tesla Coil
It’s widely accepted that the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg in the 15th Century was the event that essentially enabled the development of the modern world, allowing access …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Printing Plates Made Using Modern Tools
Ah, the humble neon lamp. The familiar warm orange glow has graced the decks of many a DIY timepiece, sometimes in a purely indicating duty, and sometimes forming a memory …read more Continue reading The Humble NE-2 Neon Lamp Has A New Trick
Many hardware people around these parts will be familiar with devices used as switches, using at least three-terminals to effect this, an input, an output and a gate. Typical devices …read more Continue reading Is a Diode a Switch?
[3DPrintedLife aka Andrew DeGonge] saw that advert for gatorade that shows some slick stop-motion animation using a so-called ‘liquid printer’ and wondered how they built the machine and got it …read more Continue reading Gravity-Defying Water Drop Display Shows Potential
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have been busy little bees for the last couple of years producing their own silicon, new boards and now in collaboration with the LEGO Education team …read more Continue reading New Part Day: Raspberry Pi LEGO HAT
If there’s one this we electronics engineers are precious about, it’s our test gear. The instruments themselves can be obscenely expensive, since all that R&D effort needs to be paid …read more Continue reading 3D Printable Scope Probe Adapts To Your Needs