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Making a chocolate chip cookie is easy. Making a good chocolate chip cookie is a little harder. Making a good chocolate chip cookie quickly is a pretty tall order, but …read more Continue reading Hack Makes Microwave Cookies Fast and Not Terrible
While vacuum electronic devices have largely been superseded over much of consumer electronics, there’s one place where they can still be found for now. The cavity magnetron is a power …read more Continue reading Powering A Cavity Magnetron, From A Battery
[Curious Droid] is back with a history lesson on one of the most important inventions of the 20th century: The cavity magnetron. Forged in the fighting of World War II, …read more Continue reading The Device that Won WW2: A History of the Cavity Magnetron
Historians may note that World War II was the last great “movie war.” In those days, you could do many things that are impossible today, yet make for great movie …read more Continue reading Ku-Go: The World War II Death Ray
It’s been a while since we heard from Dmitry Rogozin, the always-entertaining former director of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. Not content with sending mixed messages about the future of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 14, 2023
When the microwave oven started to gain popularity in the 60s and 70s, supporters and critics alike predicted that it would usher in the end of cooking as we knew …read more Continue reading Dive Into the Microwaves, the Water’s Dipolar
[Electronoobs] has a healthy respect for the voltages and ceramics inside a microwave oven. But he still found the courage to tear one apart and show us the insides and …read more Continue reading Another Magnetron Teardown
The Daguerreotype was among the earliest photographic processes, long before glass plates or film, that relied on sensitizing a thin layer of silver on top of a copper plate. The …read more Continue reading Sputtering Daguerreotypes, Batman!
You know how it is, you get in late from work, you’ve been stuck in traffic for what seems like an eternity, and you’re hungry. You reach for the microwave …read more Continue reading Microwave Ovens: Need More Power? User Lasers Instead!
When building a new project, common wisdom suggests to avoid “reinventing the wheel”, or doing something simple from scratch that’s easily available already. However, if you can build a high-voltage wheel, so to speak, it might be fun just to see what happens. [Dan] decided to reinvent not the wheel, …read more
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