Collaborate Disseminate
Sometimes there’s nothing more rewarding than pulling apart an old piece of hardware of mysterious origin. [saveitforparts] does just that, and recently came across a curious satellite system from a …read more Continue reading Pulling Apart An Old Satellite Truck Tracker
Nixie tubes are cool, and hackers like them. Perhaps for those reasons more than any other, [Kevin Santo Cappuccio] has developed a very particular Simple Add-On for the 2024 Hackaday …read more Continue reading There’s Already A Nixie Addon For The 2024 Supercon Badge
QR codes are used just about everywhere now, for checking into venues, ordering food, or just plain old advertising. But what about data storage? It’s hardly efficient, but if you …read more Continue reading Back Up Your Data On Paper With Lots Of QR Codes
When you go to build a subwoofer box, wood is the most common choice. When it came to his project, though, [Startup Chuck] decided to go a different route entirely. …read more Continue reading Building A Subwoofer Box Out Of Decking Material
Whenever you buy a servo, it usually comes with a little baggie full of various plastic horns. Most of us pick our favorite and use it in our projects. Some …read more Continue reading Should You Run Servo Horns Or Direct Couplings In Your RC Planes?
It’s 2024, and there’s no getting around it. Grid energy is expensive. [Darrell] realized that a lot of his money was going on water heating, and he came up with …read more Continue reading Hot Water Heater Hacked To Run On Solar Juice
We’ve seen a great many cat feeders over the years. Some rely on the Internet of Things, and some rely on fancy microcontrollers. [Larry Cook], on the other hand, built …read more Continue reading An Automatic Cat Feeder Built With A 4060 Binary Counter
Once upon a time, RC planes were expensive models that took months to build and big money to equip with electronics. Since the 20th century though, powerful batteries have become …read more Continue reading Build A Super Cheap RC Trainer Plane With Foam
You shouldn’t play with your food. Unless you’re designing some kind of portable cannon to fling it across the room. That’s precisely what [Backhaul Studios] did. The first step of …read more Continue reading High-Speed Jelly Launcher Destroys Toast
[Peter Demchenko] wanted to use a low power TS555 in an ESR meter design. The problem is, he needed to handle significant current sink requirements for cases where the capacitor …read more Continue reading Humble 555 Gets a Boost for ESR Meter