Collaborate Disseminate
When the project description starts with the sentence “I use an RC remote and receiver, an esp32, high-current motor drivers, servos, an FPV camera, and a little propane”, you know …read more Continue reading Flaming Power Wheels Skeleton Wins Halloween
The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project for electronics or radio enthusiasts seeking to make a simple receiver. It’s most often seen …read more Continue reading Humble Television Tubes Make An FM Regenerative Radio
When we think of an m.2 slot in our laptop or similar, it’s usually in the context of its PCI connectivity for high-speed applications such as solid state disks. It’s …read more Continue reading M.2 Makes An Unusual Microcontroller Form Factor
As cheap microcontrollers have given us an impressive range of test equipment trinkets to play with, it’s easy to forget some of the old standabys. A curve tracer for example, …read more Continue reading Don’t Forget Your Curve Tracer
Cameras are a funny rabbit hole to fall down as a hacker, because we have well over a century of items to pick and choose from, a lot of which …read more Continue reading Capturing Light In A Vacuum: The Magic Of Tube Video Cameras
Face it, we’ve all at some time or other looked at our hot glue guns, and thought “I wonder if I could use that for 3D printing!”. [Proper Printing] didn’t …read more Continue reading 3D Printing With a Hot Glue Gun
For a first try at an electric vehicle conversion we’re guessing that most would pick a small city car as a base vehicle, or perhaps a Kei van. Not [LiamTronix], …read more Continue reading An Electric Vehicle Conversion With A Difference
If you’re looking for a hackerspace while on your travels, there is more than one website which shows them on a map, and even tells you whether or not they …read more Continue reading An International Hackerspace Map
The story of Commodore computers is one of some truly great machines for their time, and of the truly woeful marketing that arguably spelled their doom. But there’s another Commodore …read more Continue reading Another Commodore Portable We Never (Quite) Received
A British journalistic trope involves the phrase “The pound in your pocket”, a derisory reference to the 1960s Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s use of it to try to persuade the …read more Continue reading The Pound ( or Euro, Or Dollar ) Can Still Be In Your Pocket