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When [knight-of-ni] bought an Acurite Atlas weather station to replace his earlier 5-in-1 model, he was initally happy with its performance. However, after just ten months the batteries in the …read more Continue reading Wireless Weather Station Gets Solar-Powered Supercap Upgrade
Taking apart old stuff and re-using the parts to make something new is how many hackers first got started in the world of mechanical and electronic engineering. But even after …read more Continue reading Turning Old Plotter Parts Into a Smooth Camera Slider
We love clock projects here at Hackaday, and we’ve seen many beautiful designs based on a wide variety of display technologies. There are various types of glass tubes like Nixies, …read more Continue reading LED Filaments Make a Retro Clock Without Any Retro Parts
Flashing your code into an Arduino, an ESP32 or any other modern microcontroller platform is pretty straightforward: connect the device through USB, fire up the appropriate software platform, and press …read more Continue reading Wireless Bootloader Saves You From Swapping ROM Chips
While mobile gaming has largely moved to smartphones these days, the classic Game Boy remains a hugely popular platform for retro enthusiasts, owing in no small part to its enormous …read more Continue reading This Big 3D-Printed Game Boy Actually Runs MacOS
Despite great progress over the past century, more than a billion people still don’t have access to clean drinking water today. Much of the water on Earth’s surface is polluted, …read more Continue reading Monitoring Water Quality Using Lots of Sensors and Machine Learning
Noise is an annoying but unavoidable part of any engineering project. Fixing noise issues is hard enough, but even just measuring how much noise an amplifier adds to your signal …read more Continue reading Using a Vacuum Diode to Make The Cleanest Noise Source You’ve Ever Seen
The first electronic digital watches were admired for their pioneering technology, if not their everyday practicality, when they were introduced in the 1970s. Their power-hungry LED displays lit up only …read more Continue reading Modern, Frugal PCB Breathes New Life Into Soviet-Made LED Watch
Most stories in the history of computing took place in one of a small number of places. The wartime code-breaking effort in Bletchley Park led to Colossus, the first programmable …read more Continue reading Visit the World’s Largest Computer Museum: The Heinz Nixdorf
It appears that every great console is bound to get a miniature remake: we’ve had the PlayStation Classic, the Mini NES and SNES, and even a miniature Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. …read more Continue reading Finally, the Venerable Vectrex Gets a Mini Makeover