Collaborate Disseminate
[Nick Poole] shared his circuitous journey into the obscure world of homemade vacuum tubes on the Supercon 2022 stage. It began innocently enough when he saw [Usagi Electric]’s single bit …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Nick Poole Makes a Jolly Wrencher Tube
[Arca] sets out to build himself a low-cost pen plotter that doesn’t require access to a 3D printer. The plotter uses a coreXY arrangement, powered by 28BYJ-48 stepper motors, which …read more Continue reading The $50 Pen Plotter
[Josh] over at mjbots just released a new version of the moteus controller board, dubbed the moteus-n1. One change is that the volume and footprint size has been reduced. Considering …read more Continue reading Meet the New Moteus BLDC Controller Board, the N1
There were some that doubted the day would ever come, but we’re happy to report that the ambitious self-destructing USB drive that security researcher [Walker] has been working on for …read more Continue reading Self-Destructing USB Drive Releases the Magic Smoke
We gotta love hacker Dads and Moms for being so awesome. Sooner or later, their kids get to play with some amazing toy that every other kid on the block …read more Continue reading Dad Builds Frickin’ Tank For His Son
When you are a life long carpenter with an amazing workshop, you’re going to make a lot of saw dust, and managing its collection and storage poses quite a challenge. [Russ] …read more Continue reading Impressive Sawdust Briquette Machine
USB-C eliminates proprietary barrel plug chargers that we’ve been using for laptops and myriads of other devices. It fights proprietary phone charger standards by explicitly making them non-compliant, bullying companies …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: Power Delivery
The Unified Program and Debug Interface (UPDI) is Microchip’s proprietary interface for programming and on-chip debugging, and has become the standard on AVR MCUs after Microchip’s purchase of Atmel. Being …read more Continue reading Turning a Microchip MPLAB Snap Into a UDPI AVR Programmer
Regular readers may recall that security researcher and general open source hardware fanatic [Walker] has been planning a rather unusual flash drive for some time — one that will only …read more Continue reading The Spit-Detecting USB Flash Drive is Nearly Here
We’ve now had at least five years of USB-C ports in our devices. It’s a standard that many manufacturers and hackers can get behind. Initially, there was plenty of confusion …read more Continue reading USB-C: Introduction For Hackers