Collaborate Disseminate
In a recent video our hacker [Electronic Wizard] introduces the 74HC595 shift register and explains how to use it to drive 7-segment displays. [Electronic Wizard] explains that understanding how to …read more Continue reading Using the 74HC595 Shift Register to Drive 7-Segment Displays
Over on his YouTube channel [Ryan Inis] has a video about how electrostatic motors are breaking all the rules. He explains that these days most motors are electromagnetic but suggests that …read more Continue reading Let’s Brief You on Recent Developments for Electrostatic Motors
Interested in playing with ultra-wideband (UWB)? [Jaryd] recently put together a fairly comprehensive getting started guide featuring the AI Thinker BU03 that looks like a great place to start. These modules …read more Continue reading Using Ultra-Wideband for 3D Location and Tracking
Over on his YouTube channel [Construction General] shows us how to convert a drain into a hydropower facility. This type of hydroelectric facility is known as a gravitation water vortex …read more Continue reading How to Convert a Drain into a Hydropower Facility
Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [GrandpaAmu] liberates a collapsible chair from a single piece of wood. With the assistance of an extra pair of hands, but without any …read more Continue reading Liberating a Collapsible Chair from a Single Piece of Wood
[mircemk] has been working on wireless power transmission. Using a Class-E Tesla coil with 12 turns on the primary and 8 turns on the secondary and a 12 volt input …read more Continue reading Bench-Top Wireless Power Transmission
Normally when you think solar projects, you think of big photovoltaic cells. But a photodiode is just an inefficient, and usually much smaller, PV cell. Since [Pocket Concepts]’s Solar_nRF has …read more Continue reading A Solar-Only, Battery-Free Device That Harvests Energy from a BPW34 Photodiode
Over on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself but the particularly remarkable feature of this project …read more Continue reading Hacking Printed Circuit Board to Create Casing and Instrument Panels
The hackers over at [HTX Studio] built a set of twenty trash cans which can automatically catch and remove rubbish. In order to catch trash a bin needs to do …read more Continue reading Automated Rubbish Removal System
Our hacker [Avi Gupta] has sent in their submission for the One Hertz Challenge: the LoRaSense RGB Pi HAT. This “HAT” (Hardware Attached to Top) is for any Raspberry Pi …read more Continue reading 2025 One Hertz Challenge: LoRaSense RGB Pi HAT