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Bake It To ReMake It: Cooking Old Magnetic Tape to Recover Data

Posted on August 29, 2021 by Dave Rowntree
DEC microVAX with tape drive

Those of us old enough may remember the heyday of the text adventure game genre from the first time around. London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering company producing titles …read more Continue reading Bake It To ReMake It: Cooking Old Magnetic Tape to Recover Data→

Posted in data recovery, games, magnetic tape, microVAX, repair hacks, retrocomputing, tape

Can Metal Plated 3D Prints Survive 400,000 Volts?

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Dave Rowntree

It appears they can. [Ian Charnas] wanted his very own Thor Hammer. He wasn’t happy to settle on the usual cosplay methods of spray painting over foam and similar flimsy …read more Continue reading Can Metal Plated 3D Prints Survive 400,000 Volts?→

Posted in 3d Printer hacks, 3D Printing, chemistry hacks, cosplay, electroplating, musical tesla coil

This Modular Differential Probe Shows Great Attention To Detail

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Dave Rowntree

[Petteri Aimonen] presents for us a modular differential probe, as his entry into the 2021 Hackaday Prize. This project shows a simple and well polished implementation of a differential-to-single-ended preamplifier, …read more Continue reading This Modular Differential Probe Shows Great Attention To Detail→

Posted in differential probe, Hardware, pcb, spark gap, The Hackaday Prize

Wooden Monowheel Build Is Simplicity Itself

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Dave Rowntree

Monowheels are nothing new, first being patented in the middle of the 19th century, but never really went mainstream due to, well, quite a lot of obvious issues. We’ve got …read more Continue reading Wooden Monowheel Build Is Simplicity Itself→

Posted in misc hacks, monowheel, transportation hacks | Tagged Wooden

Get Your Flex On With The FlowIO Platform

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Dave Rowntree
flow IO module options

Hackaday Prize 2021 entry FlowIO Platform promises to be to pneumatics what Arduino is to Electronics. The modular platform comprises a common controller/valve block, a selection of differently sized pumps, …read more Continue reading Get Your Flex On With The FlowIO Platform→

Posted in arduino, Creative Commons, Hardware, javascript, News, The Hackaday Prize, web-gui | Tagged Soft Robotics

DIY Source Measurement Unit Shows All The Details

Posted on August 18, 2021 by Dave Rowntree
DIY Source Measurement Unit

An SMU or Source Measurement Unit works a bit like a power supply, in that it can source current into a load and a bit like an electronic load, in …read more Continue reading DIY Source Measurement Unit Shows All The Details→

Posted in 4-quadrant, Hardware, scpi, SMU

Why Buy A New Scope When You Can ‘Just’ Build One?

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Dave Rowntree
ThunderScope datapath

Hackaday Prize 2021 Finalist ThunderScope is doing exactly that. [Aleska] is building a modular open source PC-connected oscilloscope aiming at four channels and a cool 100 MHz bandwidth with a …read more Continue reading Why Buy A New Scope When You Can ‘Just’ Build One?→

Posted in 2021 Hackaday Prize, oscilloscope, The Hackaday Prize, tool hacks, usb

New Part Day: Raspberry Pi HAT for IEEE1588 Precision Time Protocol

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Dave Rowntree
Raspberry Pi Real-Time HAT

The new Real-Time HAT by InnoRoute adds IEEE1588 PTP support in hardware to a Raspberry Pi 4 nestled beneath. Based around a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA and a handful of gigabit …read more Continue reading New Part Day: Raspberry Pi HAT for IEEE1588 Precision Time Protocol→

Posted in FPGA, IEEE1588, Network Hacks, New Part Day, PTP, Raspberry Pi, raspberry pi hat, xilinx

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