Collaborate Disseminate
It all started with a sarcastic comment right here on Hackaday.com: ” How many phones do you know that sport a 5 and 1/4 inch diskette drive?” — and [Paul …read more Continue reading How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.
If you’re mounting solar panels, everybody knows the drill, right? Point them south, angled according to latitude. It’s easy. In a video which demonstrates that [Everyday Dave] is truly out …read more Continue reading Vertical Solar Panels are Out Standing
The big problem with Low Earth Orbit is, oddly enough, air resistance. Sure, there’s not enough air to breathe in space, but there is enough to create drag when you’re …read more Continue reading It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s… an Air Breathing Satellite?!
A book of mechanical actions is a wondrous thing — mechanically inclined children have lost collective decades pouring over them over the generations. What could possibly be better? Why, if …read more Continue reading 3D Printed “Book” Demonstrates Mechanical Actions
If we’re talking about oxidized iron… probably nobody. If we’re talking about Rust the programming language, well, that might be a different story. Google agrees, and is working on bringing …read more Continue reading Who Wants a Rusty Old Smartphone?
Usually when an alchemist shows up promising to turn rocks into gold, you should run the other way. Sure, rocket fuel isn’t gold, but on the moon it’s worth more …read more Continue reading Blue Alchemist Promises Rocket Fuel From Moon Dust
It’s 2025 and we still don’t have flying cars– but we’ve got this full-scale flying DeLorean prop from [Brian Brocken], and that’s almost as good. It’s airborne and on camera …read more Continue reading Full Scale Styrofoam DeLorean Finally Takes Flight
Drums! You hit them, and they vibrate. It’s kind of fun. Piezoelectric elements can create electric current when they vibrate. [Will Dana] put two and two together to try and …read more Continue reading March to the Beat of Your Own Piezoelectric Drum
Superlatives are tricky things. [mircemk]’s guide “How to make Simplest ever Oscilloscope Clock” falls into that category. It’s that word, simplest. Certainly, this is an oscilloscope clock, and a nice …read more Continue reading “Simplest” Oscilloscope is a Cunning Vector Display
CRTs don’t last forever, and neither do the electronics that drive them. When you have a screen starting to go wonky, then you need a way to troubleshoot which is …read more Continue reading Test Pattern Generator for SCART and RGB TVs