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While rulers and tape measures are ubiquitous, they always seem to disappear when you need them. We know you’d never forget your safety glasses (safety first!), so what if they …read more Continue reading Combination Safety Glasses and Measurement Tool
If you’re instrumenting your machine tools, or if you’re just curious, you might want to get granular access to the output of a digital micrometer or the like. [Tommy] set …read more Continue reading Digitally Reading a Micrometer’s Output
If you were expecting a post about ancient kings and queens, you are probably at the wrong website. [Burn Heart] has a fascination with ancient measuring devices and set out …read more Continue reading Rulers of the Ancient World — Literally!
The instrument which probably the greatest number of Hackaday readers own is likely to be the humble digital multimeter. They’re cheap and useful, but they’re single-channel, and difficult to incorporate …read more Continue reading Is This The World’s Smallest Multichannel Voltmeter?
I really enjoyed reading Anne Ogborn’s piece on making simple DIY measurement devices for physical quantities like force, power, and torque. It is full of food for thought, if you’re …read more Continue reading About Right
Like many of you, I have a bench full of electronic instruments. The newest is my Rigol oscilloscope, only a few years old, while the oldest is probably my RF …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Do You Calibrate Your Instruments?
What’s the most-used tool on your bench? For me, it’s probably a multimeter, although that’s maybe a tie with my oscilloscope. Maybe after that, the soldering iron and wire strippers, …read more Continue reading You Can’t Make What You Can’t Measure
When working on simple DC systems, a small low-cost multimeter from the hardware store will get the job done well enough. Often they have the capability for measuring AC, but …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: AC Measurements Made Easy
Belts on a 3D printer should be tight enough, but not too tight. That can be an iffy thing to get right for someone who lacks familiarity with CNC platforms. …read more Continue reading Checking Belt Tension Gets Easier For (Some) Prusa 3D Printers
There are all kinds of old wives’ tales surrounding proper battery use floating around in the popular culture. Things like needing to fully discharge a battery every so often, unplugging …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive on Battery Life