DIY Bimetallic Strip Dings for Teatime
Do you like your cup of tea to be cooled down to exactly 54 C, have a love for machining, and possess more than a little bit of a mad …read more Continue reading DIY Bimetallic Strip Dings for Teatime
Author Archives: Elliot Williams
The 2024 Business Card Challenge Starts Now
If you want to make circuits for a living, what better way to impress a future employer than to hand them a piece of your work to take home? But …read more Continue reading The 2024 Business Card Challenge Starts Now
Tool-Building Mammals
It’s often said of us humans that we’re the only “tool-using mammals”. While not exclusive to the hacker community, a bunch of us are also “tool-building mammals” when we have …read more Continue reading Tool-Building Mammals
Welcome Back, Voyager
In what is probably the longest-distance tech support operation in history, the Voyager mission team succeeded in hacking their way around some defective memory and convincing their space probe to …read more Continue reading Welcome Back, Voyager
The Long and the Short of It
Last weekend was Hackaday Europe 2024, and it was great. Besides having some time to catch up with everyone, see some fun new badge hacks, and of course all the …read more Continue reading The Long and the Short of It
Hackaday Europe 2024 is Live
Hackaday Europe 2024 is on! We’re all here in Berlin, and the talks are about to begin. If you’re not, you can join us in spirit on our livestream! And if …read more Continue reading Hackaday Europe 2024 is Live
Understand Your Tools: Finger Exercises
A dip meter is basically a coil of wire that, when you excite it, you can use to tell if something inside that coil is resonating along. This lets you …read more Continue reading Understand Your Tools: Finger Exercises
Too Much Over-optimization is Never Enough!
A discussion came up on the Hackaday Discord PCB design channel about resistor networks, and it got me thinking about whether we (the hacker community) use them in designs or …read more Continue reading Too Much Over-optimization is Never Enough!
2024 Hackaday Europe: Workshops Announced, Get Your Tickets
There are only a few weeks left until Hackaday Europe takes place in Berlin on April 13th and 14th. With only one full day of programming, we simply can’t run …read more Continue reading 2024 Hackaday Europe: Workshops Announced, Get Your Tickets
It’s About Time
I’m pretty good with time zones. After all, I live in Germany, Hackaday’s server is in Los Angeles, and our writers are scattered all over the globe. I’m always translating …read more Continue reading It’s About Time