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There’s a seemingly unending list of modifications or upgrades you can make to a 3D printer. Most revolve around the mechanical side of things, many are simple prints or small …read more Continue reading Cheetah MX4 Mini: A Pint-Sized 3D Printer Controller
There are a lot of options for local weather stations; most of them, however, are sensors tied to a base station, often requiring an internet connection to access all features. …read more Continue reading 915 MHz Forecast: Rolling Your Own Offline Weather Station
As technology marches on, gear that once required expensive lab equipment is now showing up in devices you can buy for less than a nice dinner. A case in point: …read more Continue reading Amiibo Emulator Becomes Pocket 2.4 GHz Spectrum Analyzer
Ever wonder what happens to those digital price tags you see in stores once they run out of juice? In what is a prime example of e-waste, many of those …read more Continue reading Shelf Life Extended: Hacking E-Waste Tags into Conference Badges
We’ve all owned something where one tiny detail drives us nuts: a blinding power LED, buttons in the wrong order, or a beep that could wake the dead. This beautifully …read more Continue reading Retrofits Done Right: Physical Controls for Heated Seats
Ever get to the train station on time, find your platform, and then stare at the board showing your train is 20 minutes late? Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) may …read more Continue reading Real-Time BART in a Box Smaller Than Your Coffee Mug
Have you ever looked at a small development board like an Arduino or an ESP8266 board and thought you’d like one with just a few different features? Well, [Kai] has …read more Continue reading RP2040 From Scratch: Roll Your Own Dev Board Magic
For most of us, the days of having to insert a disc to play our media are increasingly behind us. But if you’d like to provide your kids with the …read more Continue reading CardFlix: NFC Cards for Kid-Friendly Streaming Magic
When it comes to soldering on a PCB it almost always helps to have some way to hold the board off your workbench, allowing leads to pass though with out …read more Continue reading Print-and-Clamp: Rubber Band PCB Stand Slides into Duty
Sometimes when you’re making a PCB that you plan on programming over USB, but you only plan on plugging in a couple of times, it would be nice to make …read more Continue reading Connector-Free Zone: PCB Edge as USB-C Interfaces