Collaborate Disseminate
Back in 2016, we took you to a collection of slightly dilapidated prefabricated huts in the English Home Counties, and showed you a computer. The place was the National Museum …read more Continue reading Tommy Flowers: How An Engineer Won The War
The first generation of real-time train information screens for British railways came in the form of suspended color CRTs in familiar rounded fiberglass housings. They were a ubiquitous sight across …read more Continue reading British Train Departures As They Should Be Viewed
The advent of the mobile phone camera has caused a revolution in film making over the last couple of decades, lowering the barrier to entry significantly, and as the cameras …read more Continue reading Broken Phone To Cinema Camera With A Lens Upgrade
Switching power supplies are familiar to Hackaday readers, whether they have a fairly conventional transformer, are a buck, a boost, or a flyback design. There’s nearly always an inductor involved, …read more Continue reading 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Boosting Voltage With Just a Wire
The function of an LED is to emit light when the device is forward biased within its operating range, and it’s known by most people that an LED can also …read more Continue reading 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: An LED as a Light Dependent Capacitor
Every now and then in histories of the 20th’s century’s earlier years, you will see pictures of cars and commercial vehicles equipped with bulky drums, contraptions to make their fuel …read more Continue reading Keep That Engine Running, With a Gassifier
It’s no secret that here at Hackaday we’ve at times been tempted to poke fun at the world of audiophiles, a place where engineering sometimes takes second place to outright …read more Continue reading A Record Lathe For Analog Audio Perfection
When we think of a motor controller it’s usual to imagine power electronics, and a consequent dent in the wallet when it’s time to order the parts. But that doesn’t …read more Continue reading 2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Making A TTL Demultiplexer Sweat
Any radio amateur will tell you about the spectre of TVI, of their transmissions being inadvertently demodulated by the smallest of non-linearity in the neighbouring antenna systems, and spewing forth …read more Continue reading The Singing Dentures Of Manchester And Other Places
USB-C as the “One Cable To Rule Them All” has certainly been a success. While USB-A is still around for now, most of us have breathed a hefty sigh of …read more Continue reading Save Your USB-C Plugs From Oblivion