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Probes are an essential component of a good oscilloscope system, but they have the nasty habit of cluttering up your workbench. If you have a four-channel scope, it’s not just …read more Continue reading Clever Scope Probe Drawers Keep Your Workbench Tidy
Fully solar-powered handheld gadgets have so far mostly been limited to ultra-low power devices like clocks, thermometers and calculators. Anything more complicated than that will generally have a battery and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2022: RunTinyRun is a Fully Solar-Powered, Portable Dinosaur Game
If you’re a 3D printer user you’re probably familiar with that dreaded feeling of returning to your printer a few hours after submitting a big job, only to find that …read more Continue reading Machine Vision Helps You Terminate Failing 3D Print Jobs
Humans weren’t made to sit in front of a computer all day, yet for many of us that’s how we spend a large part of our lives. Of course we …read more Continue reading Machine Learning Helps You Get in Shape While Working a Desk Job
We love our retrocomputers here at Hackaday, and we’re always delighted to see someone rescue an historic artefact from the landfill. Sometimes, all it takes is replacing a broken power …read more Continue reading The Epic Journey of Repairing an HP 9830A Desktop Computer From the 1970s
Electromagnetic interference problems can be a real headache to debug. If you need to prove what causes your WiFi to slow down or your digital TV signal to drop, then …read more Continue reading Measuring Electromagnetic Fields With Just an Arduino and a Piece of Wire
If you’re an experienced hacker, you’ve probably run into a problem at some point and thought “let’s make a tool to automate that”. A few hours later you’ve got your …read more Continue reading A Neat Little Tool to Reset the Fuses on Your ATtiny
While rarely seen by users, the technology behind telephone exchanges is actually quite interesting. In the first hundred or so years of their existence they evolved from manually-operated switchboards to …read more Continue reading The Simplest Electro-Mechanical Telephone Exchange That Actually Works
Cleaning robots are great and all, but they don’t really excel when it comes to speed. If your room looks like a pigsty and your Tinder date is arriving in …read more Continue reading A Turbocharged Robot Mop to Save Your Date
One of the design requirements for the networks that evolved into the Internet was the ability to keep functioning, even if some nodes or links were disabled or destroyed in …read more Continue reading LoRa-Powered Birdhouses Enable Wireless Networking When The Internet’s Down