Collaborate Disseminate
If you’ve got a cheap ham rig, it might not be very practical for you to receive certain transmissions out of the box. However, if you were to hack in …read more Continue reading 555 Makes a Useful Beat Frequency Oscillator
These days, it’s plenty easy to build a Geiger counter with a microcontroller that has a nice fancy display and a simple digital readout for how many radiations you’re likely …read more Continue reading Building an Analog Geiger Counter
[Joseph DiGiovanni] is the owner of a Litter Robot 4. It’s a convenient mechanized litter box for cats that can clean itself to reduce unwelcome odors inside the home. He …read more Continue reading Hacking A Cat Litter Box
[Makestreme] had always wanted to own a nice telescope, but found that budget would not stretch to anything above a cheap model with a limited 50 mm aperture. Wanting a …read more Continue reading PVC Pipe Turned DIY Digital Telescope
These days, modems are pretty fancy bits of kit, what with to keep up with the speeds of cable, VDSL, and fiber connections. At lower speeds, though, it’s entirely possible …read more Continue reading Building a Discrete Component 75 Baud Modem
[xssfox] recently found a Cricut Maker in an e-waste disposal. A quick scan over the device indicated it was in moderately good condition, with merely some perished rollers to contend …read more Continue reading Spoofed Serial Number Unlocks Cricut Machine
The Steam Controller is a device capable of many interesting feats. It’s intended to act simply as an input device, and yet, it can run games all on its own. …read more Continue reading Running Zork On The Steam Controller
The Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus was first introduced all the way back in 1992. It quickly became the standard way to interface add-on cards on the PC platform, supplanting …read more Continue reading Homebrew 68K Machine Has A PCI Bus
Quick Share is a useful tool for flipping files between Android smart phones in a fuss-free wireless manner. [unrealJune] has now implemented the feature on Kindle devices. You’ll need a …read more Continue reading Quick Share Implemented On A Kindle
Once upon a time a doorbell was little more than a button, a transformer, and a bell tucked somewhere around the house. These days, they get a little bit fancier. …read more Continue reading Smarting Up a Doorbell with Zigbee