Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve ever heard the sound of an aircraft passing overhead and looked at an online plane tracker to try and figure out what it was, then you’ve interacted with …read more Continue reading An RP2040 Powered ADS-B Receiver
Here at Hackaday we love floppy disks. While they are by no means a practical or useful means of storing data in the age of solid state storage, there is …read more Continue reading Print Pixel Art to a Floppy Disk
3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel …read more Continue reading Ray Marching in Excel
NTP is one of the most interesting and important, but all to forgotten, protocols that makes the internet tick. Accurate clock synchronization is required for everything ranging from cryptography to …read more Continue reading How Wind Nearly Took Down Boulder NTP
History is full of engineers making (or attempting to make) things out of the wrong stuff, from massive wooden aircraft to boats made of ice and sawdust. [PeterSripol] is attempting …read more Continue reading The Cardboard Airplane Saga Continues
Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight …read more Continue reading Making a Cardboard Airplane Wing
As anyone who has used an FDM printer can tell you, it’s certainly not the magical replicator it’s often made out to be. The limitations of the platform are numerous …read more Continue reading 3D Print Smoothing, with Lasers
In the days of yore, computers would scream strange sounds as they spoke with each other over phone lines. Of course, this is dial up, the predecessor to modern internet …read more Continue reading YouTube… Over Dial Up
Modern handheld game consoles are impressive feats of engineering, featuring full fledged computers in near pocket-sized packages. So what happens if you take an original Xbox and sprinkle on some …read more Continue reading Building a (Not Very) Portable Xbox
WiFi is an excellent protocol, but it certainly has its weaknesses. Its range in even a normal home is relatively limited, so you could imagine the sort of performance you’d …read more Continue reading Getting the Most out of ISM Transceivers Using Math