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ISA over TPM to Your PC

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A green PCB with an ISA card slot and various connectors and components. The text "DISAPPOINTMENT LPC to ISA Adapter" is printed in the bottom left of the board.

Sometimes you really want to use your legacy SoundBlaster instead of emulating it for classic games. While modern PCs don’t have ISA slots, [TheRasteri] is fixing this shortcoming with his …read more Continue reading ISA over TPM to Your PC→

A Little Chess with Your Timepiece

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A metal watch is held in a man's fingers. The watchface has a laser etched chess board with miniature chess pieces made of brass enacting a match. The time is told on an etched chess clock to the right hand side of the timepiece and a small window on the rightmost "clock" shows the date.

Some things remain classics, even after centuries, and chess and watches have certainly stood the test of time. [W&M Levsha] decided to combine them both in this “Chess Club” watch …read more Continue reading A Little Chess with Your Timepiece→

Unconventional Computing Laboratory Grows Its Own Electronics

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

Sixteen wires of various colors are attached in pairs to record the electrical activity of split gill fungi (Schizophyllum commune) on a mossy, wooden stick. photo by Irina Petrova Adamatzky

While some might say we’re living in a cyberpunk future already, one technology that’s conspicuously absent is wetware. The Unconventional Computing Laboratory is working to change that. Previous work with …read more Continue reading Unconventional Computing Laboratory Grows Its Own Electronics→

Electronic Bandage Speeds Wound Healing

Posted on March 12, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A closeup of a ring and "flower" electrode attached to a translucent piece of material with fainter wires. The flower and ring electrodes are made of molybdenum that has a somewhat accordion fold back-and-forth cross-section.

We’re a long way from the dermal regenerators in Star Trek, but researchers at Northwestern University have made a leap forward in the convenient use of electrotherapy for wound healing. …read more Continue reading Electronic Bandage Speeds Wound Healing→

AGES of Renewable Energy Storage

Posted on March 3, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

As society transitions toward renewable energy sources, energy storage inevitably comes to mind. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found one way to store renewable energy that …read more Continue reading AGES of Renewable Energy Storage→

A Look Inside Bicycle Gearboxes

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A line art schematic of a bicycle CVT drive. Two large green circles at the bottom have the text "1. Increases speed" where the crank arm would enter the system. A series of cam arms highlighted in red say "2. Converts from rotary to reciprocating motion." Finally, a blue highlighted bearing says "3. Converts from reciprocating back to rotary motion."

While bicycle gearboxes date back to at least the 1920s, they’re relatively unseen in bike racing. One exception is Honda’s race-winning mid-drive gearboxes, and [Alee Denham] gives us a look …read more Continue reading A Look Inside Bicycle Gearboxes→

What Happened to Sweden’s Slot Car EV Road?

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A grey car sits in the background out of focus, its front facing the camera. It sits over an asphalt roadway with a metal rail extending from the foreground to behind the car in the distance. The rail has a two parallel slots and screws surrounding the slots running down the rail.

Many EVs can charge 80% of their battery in a matter of minutes, but for some applications range anxiety and charge time are still a concern. One possible solution is …read more Continue reading What Happened to Sweden’s Slot Car EV Road?→

A More Expressive Synth via Flexure

Posted on March 1, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A man sits in front of a wooden table. There is a black box with a number of knobs hand-labeled on blue painter's tape. A white breadboard with a number of wires protruding from it is visible on the box's left side. An oscilliscope is behind the black box and has a yellow waveform displaying on its screen.

Synthesizers can make some great music, but sometimes they feel a bit robotic in comparison to their analog counterparts. [Sound Werkshop] built a “minimum viable” expressive synth to overcome this …read more Continue reading A More Expressive Synth via Flexure→

Challenging the Limits of 3D Printing with Cymbals

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A series of five cymbals sitting on white and black speckled carpet in front of a green loveseat. Each cymbal is assembled from four printed sections. Their colors from left to right are yellow and grey, red and black, black, teal and black, and white and black. A sixth, grey and black cymbal is sitting in the middle of the loveseat cushion.

We’re big believers in 3D printing here at Hackaday, but it’s important to recognize that there are plenty of applications where additive manufacturing (at least, from a desktop machine) just …read more Continue reading Challenging the Limits of 3D Printing with Cymbals→

DIY Tool Makes Wrapping Wiring Harnesses a Breeze

Posted on February 27, 2023 by Navarre Bartz

A person holds a bundle of white, black, and blue wires. The left hand side of the wires are wrapped with black tape. The wires are inside a wire wrapping machine with a grey plastic "C" which rotates inside seven small pulleys. A large pulley in the background drives three of the pulleys to rotate the "C" around and wrap the wires with tape from the spool attached to the "C."

If you’re making a lot of wiring harnesses, wrapping them can become a bit of a drag. [Well Done Tips] wanted to make this process easier and built a wiring …read more Continue reading DIY Tool Makes Wrapping Wiring Harnesses a Breeze→