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One easy way to make a very accurate clock is with a WiFi-enabled microcontroller like an ESP32 and a display: set up NTP, and you’ll never be off by more …read more Continue reading Get to the Games on Time with This Ancient-Style Waterclock
Not every project has to be complicated– reinventing the wheel has its place, but sometimes you find a module or two that does exactly what you want, and the project …read more Continue reading Retro Style VFO Has Single-Digit Parts Count
It’s clock time again on Hackaday, this time with a lovely laser-cut biretrograde clock by [PaulH175] over on Instructables. If you’ve never heard of a ‘biretrograde clock,’ well, we hadn’t …read more Continue reading There’s Nothing Backwards About This Laser Cut Retrograde Clock
In Dune, the Fremen people of Arrakis practice an odd future hybrid religion called “zensunni.” This adds an extra layer of meaning to the title of [Mark Rehorst]’s Arrakis 3.0 sand …read more Continue reading The Zen Must Flow From Arrakis Sand Table
You know those old cliche that the younger generations have begun to cynically despise: “follow your dreams!” “You can be anything you put your mind to!” — well, perhaps they …read more Continue reading A PCB Can Be A Hydrofoil, If it Really Wants To
There’s just something about an analog synthesizer. You’d think that for electronic music, digital sampling would have totally taken over by now, but that’s really not true. The world of …read more Continue reading DIY Polyphonic Synth Sings in 8-Part Harmony
Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is one of those things that sounds like it must be woo when you first hear of it. “A trickle of current that can deal …read more Continue reading DIY TENS Machine is a Pain-Relief PCB
For those of you who haven’t spent time in North America around this time of year, you may be unaware of two things: one, the obligatory non-stop loop of “All …read more Continue reading Wiring Up The Railway, All The Live-Long Day
When people talk about the lack of a DOOM being the doom Commodore home computers, they aren’t talking about the C64, which was deep into obsolescence when demon-slaying suddenly became …read more Continue reading Commodore’s Most Popular Computer gets DOOM-style Shooter
Once upon a time, owning a calculator watch was the epitome of cool. Well, for a very specific subset of the population with our own definition of “cool” anyway. The …read more Continue reading Wear this RISC V, RPN Calculator Watch for Maximum Nerd Cred