Collaborate Disseminate
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
Obsolete hardware is all around us, and some of it has some pretty interesting tech buried within. One such device is an old Belgacom TV Box. Instead of using the …read more Continue reading ESP32 Invades Old TV Box: Forecast More Than Just Channels
Keeping chickens in predator-prone areas demands serious fortifications, but even the most robust coop can become a hassle without automation. That’s where [lcamtuf] steps in with his Chicken Squisher 3000, …read more Continue reading Chicken Squisher 3000: Squish-Proof Security
Not too long ago, part of using a computer was often finding the correct disk for the application you wanted to run and inserting it into your machine before you …read more Continue reading RFIDisk: When Floppy Drives Go Contactless
Hyperspectral cameras aren’t commonplace items; they capture spectral data for each of their pixels. While commercial hyperspectral cameras often start in the tens of thousands of dollars, [anfractuosity] decided to …read more Continue reading Waverider: Scanning Spectra One Pixel at a Time