Info Sought On a Forgotten Cuban Radio
Some of the daily normalities of life in the Cold War seem a little surreal from our perspective in 2023, when nuclear bombers no longer ...
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Dreamcast Linux: Looking Back at Linux on a SuperH-based Gaming Console
The Dreamcast is probably best known as the swansong of Sega’s ambitions as a gaming console manufacturer, but perhaps lesser known is th...
Hackaday Links: March 19, 2023
We get results! Well, sort of. You may recall that in this space last week we discussed Ford’s plans to exclude AM reception on the info...
The $50 Pen Plotter
[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 arrangeme...
Building a Truss-Braced Model Airplane: Sense or Nonsense?
Following NASA’s recent results with truss-braced wing airplanes and the benefits this could bring to full-sized airplanes, [Think Flight...
Calibrating Thermal Cameras With Hot Patterned Objects
Thermal cameras are great if you want to get an idea of what’s hot and what’s not. If you want to use a thermal camera for certain machin...
It’s a 486 Computer, On a Breadboard
Ever since the 1970s, a frequent project has been to take a microprocessor and construct a computer system on a breadboard or stripboard....
Finessing a Soldering Iron to Remove Large Connectors
One of the first tools that is added to a toolbox when working on electronics, perhaps besides a multimeter, is a soldering iron. From th...
Advanced 3D Printing Tips
One of the best things about hanging around with other hackers is you hear about the little tricks they use for things like 3D printing. ...
Taking Apart IKEA’s Latest Air Quality Sensor
Whether it’s because they’re concerned about worsening pollution or the now endemic variants of COVID-19, a whole lot of people have foun...
Robot Hand Looks and Acts Like the Real Thing
Throughout history, visions of the future included human-looking robots. These days we have plenty of robots, but they don’t look like pe...
Voice Without Sound
Voice recognition is becoming more and more common, but anyone who’s ever used a smart device can attest that they aren’t exactly fool-pr...
Pocket-Sized Thermal Imager
Just as the gold standard for multimeters and other instrumentation likely comes in a yellow package of some sort, there is a similar hou...
Cheap Camera Gives Clay-Pigeon’s-Eye View of Trap Shooting
Speaking from experience, it’s always fun to build something with the specific intention of destroying it. Childhood sessions spending ho...
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