Collaborate Disseminate
Here’s a clever hack. Simple, elegant, and eminently cost-effective: using an SMD capacitor to hold your flash media in place! This is a hack that can pretty much be summed …read more Continue reading SMD Capacitor Doubles as Cheap SD Card Latch
Great Scott! If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit. — Doc Brown On this day, forty years ago, …read more Continue reading Back to the Future, 40 Years Old, Looks Like the Past
Well, here’s an interesting idea: the service loop. Ever heard of it? We haven’t! In the video, the presenter explains the service loop serves two purposes: on the one hand …read more Continue reading Are Service Loops a Good Idea?
Thanks to [Radical Brad] for writing in to let us know about his recent project, building a street racing bike from square tubing and old bike parts. In this 50 …read more Continue reading Building the Marauder LowRacer from Bike Parts
[Hunter Irving] is a talented hacker with a wicked sense of humor, and he has written in to let us know about his latest project which is to make a …read more Continue reading Making GameCube Keyboard Controller Work with Animal Crossing
Here’s a fun build. Over on their YouTube channel our hacker [Atasoy] shows us how to make a custom floral keyboard keycap using resin. We begin by using an existing …read more Continue reading How to Make a Beautiful Floral Keycap Using Resin
Over on his YouTube channel our hacker [CircuitValley] repairs an old TDS8000 scope. The TDS8000 was manufactured by Tektronix circa 2001 and was also marketed as the CSA8000 Communications Signal …read more Continue reading Repairing an Old Tektronix TDS8000 Scope
Here’s a great hack sent in to us from [Simon]. He uses an e-paper photo frame as a weather map! By now you are probably aware of e-paper technology, which …read more Continue reading Converting an E-Paper Photo Frame into Weather Map
Here’s a great hack sent in to us from [Simon]. He uses an e-paper photo frame as a weather map! By now you are probably aware of e-paper technology, which …read more Continue reading Converting an E-Paper Photo Frame into Weather Map
When [Ben Eater] talks, hackers everywhere listen. In his latest video [Ben] shows us how to make computer noises using square waves and a 6502 microprocessor. [Ben] uses the timer …read more Continue reading Ben Eater Makes Computer Noises