FTC warns of LGBTQ+ extortion scams – be aware before you share!
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Careful Cuts Lets Logger Last a Year On A Coin Cell
Coin cells are great for backup power for things like real-time clocks, or even for powering incredibly small mechanical devices like watches. But for something like a data logger, running …read more Continue reading Careful Cuts Lets Logger Last a Year On A Coin Cell
NTP Server Gets Time From Space
Cheap GPS units are readily available nowadays, which is great if you have something that needs to be very precisely located. Finding the position of things is one of many …read more Continue reading NTP Server Gets Time From Space
Be Mesmerized By The Latest Time Twister
[Hans Andersson] has been creating marvelous twisting timepieces for over a decade, and we’re pleased to be able to share his latest mechanical clock contraption with our readers, the Time …read more Continue reading Be Mesmerized By The Latest Time Twister
World’s Cutest Pomodoro Timer Is Also a Clock
Student and hacker [prusteen] recently fell in love with the Pomodoro method of time management. That’s where you concentrate on your task for 25 minutes, then take a five-minute break, …read more Continue reading World’s Cutest Pomodoro Timer Is Also a Clock
The Amiga 1000, Still Receiving New Peripherals 35 Years Later
In the world of retrocomputing it’s the earliest models that garner the most interest, usually either due to their rarity, or sometimes just because of their flaws. The Commodore Amiga 1000 is a case in point, it was the machine everybody wanted but its A500 home computer sibling made the …read more
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Save Your Original Xbox From A Corrosive Death
Fans of retro computers from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras will be well aware of the green death that eats these machines from the inside out. A common cause is leaking electrolytic capacitors, with RTC batteries being an even more vicious scourge when it comes to corrosion that destroys motherboards. …read more
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A Linear Stencil Clock Built for Quiet Operation
We around the Hackaday shop never get tired of seeing new ways to mark the passage of time. Hackers come up with all manner of interesting timekeeping modalities using every imaginable material and method of moving the mechanism once per whatever minimum time unit the hacker chooses to mark.
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Building This Mechanical Digital Clock Took Balls
In the neverending quest for unique ways to display the time, hackers will try just about anything. We’ve seen it all, or at least we thought we had, and then up popped this purely mechanical digital clock that uses nothing but steel balls to display the time. And we absolutely …read more
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Choosing The Right RTC For Your Project
When it comes to measuring time on microcontrollers, there’s plenty of ways to go about things. For most quick and dirty purposes, such as debounce delays or other wait states, merely counting away a few cycles of the main clock will serve the purpose. Accurate to the tens of milliseconds, …read more