Collaborate Disseminate
The news doesn’t go long without some kind of superconductor announcement these days. Unfortunately, these come in several categories: materials that require warmer temperatures than previous materials but still require …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What If You Did Have a Room Temperature Superconductor?
Most people who read Hackaday have positive feelings about automation. (Notice we said most.) How many times have you been behind someone in a grocery store line waiting for them …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Why Are Self-Checkouts Failing?
Ah, soldering. It’s great for sticking surface mount parts to a PCB, and it’s really great for holding component legs in a plated through-hole. It also does a pretty great …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What Do You Do When You Can’t Solder?
I recently dropped in on one of the Vintage Computer Festival events, and it made me think about why people — including myself — are fascinated with old computer technology. …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Why Retrocomputing?
Any time we mention Linux, it is a fair bet we will get a few comments from people unhappy that we didn’t refer to it as GNU/Linux or with some …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What’s Linux Anyway?
A few days ago, I ran into an online post where someone pointed out the book “Learn to Program with Assembly” and asked if anyone had ever learned assembly language …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Learn Assembly First, Last, or Never?
Water cooler talk at the office usually centers around movies, sports, or life events. Not at Hackaday. We have the oddest conversations and, this week, we are asking for your …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Split Rail Op Amp Power Supply
There comes a point in every engineer’s life at which they need a mixing desk, and for me that point is now. But the marketplace for a cheap small mixer …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: The Ten Dollar Digital Mixing Desk?
Most of us strip the insulation off wires using some form of metal blade or blades. You can get many tools that do that, but you can also get by …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Stripping Wires with Lasers
So we’re two plus years into the pandemic at this point. Are you still working from home in the most comfortable clothes ever sewn? We figure that of the lot …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Would a Scooter Get You Back to the Office?