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There’s no doubt that cheap digital calipers are useful, especially when designing 3D-printed parts. Unfortunately, cheap digital calipers are also cheap, and tend to burn through batteries quickly. Sure, you …read more Continue reading Solar Panel Keeps Cheap Digital Calipers Powered Up
There’s treasures hidden in old technology, and you deserve to be able to revive it. Whether it’s old personal computer platforms, vending machines, robot arms, or educational kits based on …read more Continue reading Relatively Universal ROM Programmer Makes Retro Tech Hacking Accessible
[Victor]’s nifty tool the Solder Scroll is a handheld device that lets one feed solder out simply by turning something a little like a scroll wheel. It looks like an …read more Continue reading Let the Solder Scroll Take Care of Your Feed Needs
The best thing about buying your own home is that you can hang things on the walls. It’s a human right all too often denied to renters the world over. …read more Continue reading Remove Wall Plugs Fast With A Custom Tool
You know things are getting real when the Dremel is one of the first tools you turn to after unboxing your new oscilloscope. But when your goal is to hack …read more Continue reading Hacked Oscilloscope Plays Breakout, Hints at More
[Wendy] asked a very good question. Could putting liquid resin into an ultrasonic cleaner help degas it? Would it help remove bubbles, resulting in a cleaner pour and nicer end …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: Can an Ultrasonic Cleaner Remove Bubbles From Resin?
If you have a well-equipped shop, it isn’t unusual to have a welder. Stick welders have become a commodity and even some that use shield gas are cheap if you …read more Continue reading Plasma Cutter on the Cheap Reviewed
Last time, we looked into using a logic analyzer to decode SPI signals of LCD displays, which can help us reuse LCD screens from proprietary systems, or port LCD driver …read more Continue reading Logic Analyzers: Decoding And Monitoring
If you need to make round things, you probably need a lathe. Can you build one as nice as one you can buy? Probably not. But can you build one …read more Continue reading No Lathe? Build Your Own
Soldering is easy, as long as you have one hand to hold the iron, one to hold the solder, and another to hold the workpiece. For those of us not …read more Continue reading Let Your Finger Do the Soldering With Solder Sustainer v2