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If you’ve done any amount of electronic design work, you’ll be familiar with the need for decoupling capacitors. Sometimes a chip’s datasheet will tell you exactly what kind of caps …read more Continue reading Clever Test Rig Clarifies Capacitor Rules-of-Thumb
If you’ve done any amount of electronic design work, you’ll be familiar with the need for decoupling capacitors. Sometimes a chip’s datasheet will tell you exactly what kind of caps …read more Continue reading Clever Test Rig Clarifies Capacitor Rules-of-Thumb
During the 1990s, music was almost invariably stored on CDs or cassette tapes. When the new millennium came around, physical formats became obsolete as music moved first to MP3 files, …read more Continue reading 2022 Supercon: Jac and Ralf Explore the Secrets of the Digital Compact Cassette
AI-powered chatbots are clearly the future of computing, and it’s only a matter of time before you’ll see them appear on every internet-connected gadget. If you thought you were safe …read more Continue reading MS-DOS Client Brings ChatGPT to the IBM PC
Many of the clocks we feature here on Hackaday are entirely built from scratch, or perhaps reuse an unusual display type. But sometimes, an old clock is just perfect as …read more Continue reading Classic 1960s Flip Clock Gets NTP Makeover
In our previous article on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route the signals coming out of a BGA package. But designing …read more Continue reading Working with BGAs: Soldering, Reballing, and Rework
We at Hackaday are great fans of hands-on classroom projects promoting science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects – after all, inspiring kids with technology at a young age will …read more Continue reading Optimize Your Paper Planes With This Cardboard Wind Tunnel
With all those e-paper based projects doing the rounds these days, including in our Low Power Challenge, you’d almost forget that monochrome LCDs were the original ultra-low-power display. Without them, …read more Continue reading Low Power Challenge: LCD Solar Creatures Live on Sunlight, Sleep at Night
[Moritz v. Sivers] has a knack for making his own displays, which are typically based on some obscure physical effect. Magnetic viewing films, those thin plastic sheets that change color …read more Continue reading Moving Magnet Draws Stylish Shapes On Flexible Film
A common complaint among laptop users is that while battery technology has vastly improved over the past decades, a simulltaneous shrink in form factors has meant that a typical laptop …read more Continue reading Low Power Challenge: The PotatoP Runs Lisp For Months Without Recharging