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With ready availability of single board computers, displays, keyboards, power packs, and other hardware, a home-made laptop is now a project within most people’s reach. Some laptop projects definitely veer …read more Continue reading This Home Made Laptop Raises The Bar
There’s a mystique around ribbon microphones due to their being expensive studio-grade items, which has led more than one experimenter down the rabbit hole of making one. [Catherine van West] …read more Continue reading A Ribbon Microphone Is Harder Than You Think
The chances are overwhelming, that you are reading this article on a web browser powered by some form of the Blink or WebKit browser engines as used by Google, Apple, …read more Continue reading Dillo Turns 25, and Releases a New Version
The ESP32 series of microcontrollers have been with us for quite a few years now and appeared in both Tensilica and RISC-V variants, both of which deliver an inexpensive and …read more Continue reading A PDA From An ESP32
A staple of starting off in electronics ion years past was the crystal set radio, an extremely simple AM radio receiver with little more than a tuned circuit and a …read more Continue reading No Crystal Earpiece? No Problem!
The humble piezo disc buzzer is much more than something that makes tinny beeps in retro electronic equipment, it can also be used as a sensor. Tapping a piezo buzzer …read more Continue reading Piezo Buzzer Makes a Drum
A couple of years ago one of the Hackaday Prize finalists was a project to take highschoolers through building a direct conversion radio receiver for the 40 metre amateur band. …read more Continue reading A Direct Conversion Receiver Anyone Can Build
Making a physical doughnut is easy enough, given a good dough recipe and a nice hot deep fat fryer. But have you ever considered making a one in physical electronic …read more Continue reading It’s a Doughnut, In Hardware
Whatever the nuances are surrounding the reported taking down of remixes derived from the famous Benchy 3D printer stress test, it was inevitable that in its aftermath there would be …read more Continue reading It’s A Bench, But It’s Not Benchy
Doing the rounds this week is a new operating system for ESP32 microcontrollers, it’s called Tactility, and it comes from [Ken Van Hoeylandt]. It provides a basic operating system level …read more Continue reading Tactility; The ESP32 Gets Another OS