Collaborate Disseminate
If you read Hackaday, you probably get the title of [SunEstra’s] post: A Casual Date with the Dumpster. Many great hacking projects start with finding one man’s trash. This June, …read more Continue reading Saving a Scope from the Dumpster
The trouble with fixing electronics is that most devices are just black boxes — literally. Tear it down, look inside, but it usually doesn’t matter — all you see are …read more Continue reading Putting the Magic Smoke Back into a Dodgy Spectrum Analyzer
To study the history of the automobile is to also be a student of technological progress — as with each decade’s models come new innovations to make them better handling, …read more Continue reading When Tail Lights Lose Touch With Reality
The humble transistor radio is one of those consumer devices that stubbornly refuses to go away, but it’s fair to say that it’s not the mover and shaker in the …read more Continue reading Transistor Radio Repair, More Complex Than It Seems
Back in 2013, a Dutch startup launched a smartphone made using ethically sourced materials and designed for extended service life. Now the Fairphone has entered its fifth generation, sporting an OLED display, 50-MP cameras and fast charging.Continue Re… Continue reading Fairphone 5 repairable and sustainable smartphone stays fresh for longer
[joekutz] made an impulse purchase of a CNC machine. It was a 3040 CNC that looked reasonably complete and had an attractive price, what could possibly go wrong? As it …read more Continue reading Impulse Buying a 3040 CNC Machine, What Could Go Wrong?
When [Michael] over at the Teaching Tech YouTube channel bought a hobby injection molding machine a long time ago, one of the plans he had with it was to use …read more Continue reading Repairing a Home Injection Molding Machine
Love them or hate them, there’s no denying that Apple has strayed from the Woz’s original open platform ideal for the Apple II. [Ken Pillonel] is back for another round …read more Continue reading Fixing Some More of Apple’s Design Mistakes
You know the old saying. When all you have open is KiCad, everything looks like a PCB. That was certainly true for [Evan], who needed to replace a 2.5D small …read more Continue reading Nail, Meet KiCad
The 16-inch version of the customizable, repairable and upgradeable laptop announced by California tech startup Framework back in March has now gone up for pre-order, with Ryzen silicon and Radeon graphics leading the component charge.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Framework goes all in on AMD for modular, user-repairable Laptop 16