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The Ball Grid Array, or BGA package is no longer the exclusive preserve of large, complex chips on computer motherboards: today even simple microcontrollers are available with those little solder …read more Continue reading Working with BGAs: Design and Layout
If you’ve ever spent time watching the goings-on at a seaport, you must have seen tugboats at work: those little boats that push, pull and nudge enormous cargo ships through …read more Continue reading The Little 3D-Printed Tugboat That Could
One of the drawbacks of being an early adopter is that you might end up investing in equipment that becomes obsolete rather quickly. Although it’s clear that electric vehicles are …read more Continue reading Modernizing an Outdated Electric Vehicle Charging Station
If you worked with computers back in the 1970s, there’s a good chance you used a light pen at some point: a simple input device that you’d point at the …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: Using a Commodore Light Pen on a Modern(ish) Computer
While curbside pickup of recyclables is convenient, it does require you to keep track of which type of waste is picked up when: miss the biweekly paper pickup and you’ll …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: BinPal is a Convenient Recycling Reminder
The Compu-tor, designed by [Henry Edwards], is one of those things that doesn’t neatly fit into any categories. It is a clamshell-type portable computer, although unlike most laptops, it doesn’t …read more Continue reading The Compu-tor is a Raspberry Pi Laptop in a Mahogany Case
We see lots of great hardware projects here at Hackaday: some are extremely clever, some are beautifully made, and some show off their maker’s extraordinary skills. Others are just plain …read more Continue reading The Wonderfully Weird Wireframe Game Boy That Actually Works
Those old enough to have encountered punch cards in their lifetime are probably glad to be rid of their extremely low data density and the propensity of tall stacks to …read more Continue reading How to Use LEGO Bricks for Data Storage
The inconvenience of having to walk to your mailbox to check for mail has inspired many hackers to install automated systems that let them know when the mail has been …read more Continue reading Using a LIDAR Sensor to Monitor Your Mailbox
What’s more fun than playing video games? Designing your own video game hardware, of course! If you’ve followed these pages long enough you’ll have seen dozens of great examples of …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: The GameBug Turns Your Breadboard Into a Game Console