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14 hours ago

You Can Use An Old Tape Deck As A Distortion Pedal - Distorted guitars were a big part of the rock revolution last century; we try to f... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/21/you-can-use-an-old-tape-deck-as-a-distortion-pedal/ #electricguitar #guitareffects #distortion #mischacks

IT News
5 days ago

Spinning CRT Makes a 360 Degree Audio Oscilloscope - A question for you: if the cathode ray tube had never been invented, what would an... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/16/spinning-crt-makes-a-360-degree-audio-oscilloscope/ #persistenceofvision #oscilloscope #tachyscope #mischacks #crt #pov

IT News
1 week ago

Building a Rotating Display Plate From A Lazy Susan - A rotating table is a super nifty tool for all kinds of photography and videograph... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/building-a-rotating-display-plate-from-a-lazy-susan/ #rotatingtable #mischacks #lazysusan

IT News
1 week ago

Rocker Bogie Suspension: The Beloved Solution To Extra-Planetary Rovers - When navigating the vast and unpredictable expanses of outer space, particularly o... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/rocker-bogie-suspension-the-beloved-solution-to-extra-planetary-rovers/ #rocker-bogie #engineering #originalart #mischacks #marsrover #featured #rover

IT News
1 week ago

It’s Time You Built a Smart Pocket Watch - There’s just something about a pocket watch that screams class compared to the bar... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/13/its-time-you-built-a-smart-pocket-watch/ #smartpocketwatch #diysmartwatch #pocketwatch #smartwatch #mischacks

IT News
1 week ago

Out With The Circus Animals, In With The Holograms - As futuristic as holographic technology may sound, in a sense it’s actually alread... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/out-with-the-circus-animals-in-with-the-holograms/ #volumetricdisplay #holography #mischacks

IT News
1 week ago

This Keyboard Doesn’t Work Without Game Boy Cartridges - Just when we though we’d seen it all when it comes to custom keyboards (or most of... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/this-keyboard-doesnt-work-without-game-boy-cartridges/ #microcontrollers #gameboycartridge #gameboyadvance #mischacks #keyboard #typeboy #typepak #how-to

IT News
3 weeks ago

Modding a Nerf Blaster The Old Fashioned Way - The Pistol Splat was a very weak blaster built for children, designed to shoot toy... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/03/modding-a-nerf-blaster-the-old-fashioned-way/ #nerfblaster #mischacks #blaster #nerf

IT News
3 weeks ago

All-Mechanical Coil Winder is a Scrap-Bin Delight - If there’s something more tedious than winding coils, we’re not sure what it is — ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/30/all-mechanical-coil-winder-is-a-scrap-bin-delight/ #amateurradio #magnetwire #mischacks #inductor #solenoid #radio #coil #ham

IT News
1 month ago

Custom Font Generation Means Boss Embossing - [Attoparsec] loves learning languages, but says they have a hard time retaining an... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/23/custom-font-generation-means-boss-embossing/ #customfont #labelmaker #labelmaker #mischacks #esperanto

IT News
1 month ago

3D-Printed Woven Coasters Save Tabletops in Style - When regular people think of 3D printing, they likely imagine semi-newfangled obje... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/20/3d-printed-woven-coasters-save-tabletops-in-style/ #3dprinterhacks #stakeandstrand #basketweaving #3dprinting #weavingpla #mischacks #coaster #weaving #how-to

IT News
1 month ago

Data Recovery in the Woodshed - A 1TB drive fails. How do you recover the data? If you are like us, you imagine a ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/18/data-recovery-in-the-woodshed/ #datarecovery #repairhacks #mischacks

IT News
1 month ago

China May Have a New Submarine Tracking Technology - Submarines have always been about stealth; that’s always been the whole point of p... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/17/china-may-have-a-new-submarine-tracking-technology/ #mischacks #submarine #elf

IT News
1 month ago

An LM386 Oscillator Thanks to Tungsten Under Glass - Once ubiquitous, the incandescent light bulb has become something of a lucerna non... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/an-lm386-oscillator-thanks-to-tungsten-under-glass/ #positivetemperaturecoefficient #automaticgaincontrol #classichacks #incandescent #oscillator #wienbridge #mischacks #feedback #tungsten #lm386 #agc #ptc

IT News
2 months ago

Automate Your Pin Header Chopping Chores Away - In most cases, cutting pin headers is a pretty simple job to tackle with a pair of... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/automate-your-pin-header-chopping-chores-away/ #automation #mischacks #pinheader #follower #kitting #cam

IT News
2 months ago

Understanding and Using Unicode - Computer engineer [Marco Cilloni] realized a lot of developers today still have tr... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/28/understanding-and-using-unicode/ #internationalization #computerhacks #mischacks #unicode #i18n #l10n #utf

IT News
2 months ago

Solar Powered Game of Life Follows the Sun’s Rhythm - Conway’s Game of Life is a beautiful example of how complex behavior can emerge fr... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/28/solar-powered-game-of-life-follows-the-suns-rhythm/ #conwaysgameoflife #gameoflife #mischacks #solarcell #esp32ulp #esp32

IT News
2 months ago

A Simple One-Handed Solder Feeder - Soldering can get frustrating when you’re working fast. It often feels like you do... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/27/a-simple-one-handed-solder-feeder/ #mischacks #toolhacks #soldering #solder #tools

IT News
2 months ago

Breaking Land Speed Records With An RC Car - Building and running a land speed record car is an expensive business that require... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/19/breaking-land-speed-records-with-an-rc-car/ #transportationhacks #speedrecord #mischacks #jetcar #r/ccar

IT News
2 months ago

Halbach Array Makes Magnets Strong, Weak - If you want a strong magnet, the obvious answer is to buy one. However, for a vari... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/16/halbach-array-makes-magents-strong-weak/ #halbacharray #mischacks #magnet

IT News
2 months ago

PicoDebugger Makes Development Easier - Debugging a Raspberry Pi Pico is straightforward enough; it simply involves hookin... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/12/picodebugger-makes-development-easier/ #raspberrypipico #mischacks #picoprobe #pipico #rp2040

IT News
2 months ago

Building a Digital Compass With An Arduino - The magnetic compass has been a crucial navigational tool for around a thousand ye... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/12/building-a-digital-compass-with-an-arduino/ #magnetometer #mischacks #arduino #compass

IT News
2 months ago

Gas-Powered Fly Swatter Slightly Over-Engineered - Any good flyswatter ought to be able to break through a hefty piece of wood. At le... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/10/gas-powered-fly-swatter-slightly-over-engineered/ #gascylinder #flyswatter #flyswatter #mischacks #pneumatic #dyneema #steel

IT News
2 months ago

Thermochromic Treatment Keeps Solderless Breadboards Smokeless - There’s a point in a component’s thermal regime that’s between normal operation an... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/08/thermochromic-treatment-keeps-solderless-breadboards-smokeless/ #solderlessbreadboard #powerdissipation #thermochromic #magicsmoke #mischacks #overload #pigment #thermal #paint

IT News
3 months ago

Watch Those 1% Resistors - Decades ago, electronic components were not as easy to acquire as they are today. ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/07/watch-those-1-resistors/ #components #mischacks #resistors #tolerance

IT News
3 months ago

It’s Easy To Make Gears Out Of Wood - Typically, most of the gears we use in our life are made of plastic or metal. Howe... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/30/its-easy-to-make-gears-out-of-wood/ #woodworking #mischacks #gears #wood

IT News
3 months ago

Sci Fi UI Made Easy With Arwes - Many of us grew up watching Star Trek, marvelling at the beautiful colorful interf... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/29/sci-fi-ui-made-easy-with-arwes/ #sciencefiction #userinterface #webframework #mischacks #sci-fi #arwes #scifi #ui

IT News
3 months ago

A BASIC Interpreter For The Raspberry Pi Pico - It’s pretty easy to program the Raspberry Pi Pico in Python, or you can use C or C... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/28/a-basic-interpreter-for-the-raspberry-pi-pico/ #basicinterpreter #raspberrypipico #raspberrypi #mischacks #pipico #basic #pico

IT News
3 months ago

Behind the x86 Pipeline Curtain - We’ve often heard that modern x86 CPUs don’t really execute x86 instructions. Inst... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/19/behind-the-x86-pipeline-curtain/ #mischacks #risc #x86

IT News
3 months ago

Cheap USB Sniffer Has Wireshark Interface - If you’ve done any development on USB hardware, you’ve probably wished you could p... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/13/cheap-usb-sniffer-has-wireshark-interface/ #mischacks #usb

IT News
4 months ago

The Printing of Pi - It really isn’t necessary, but there is some geek cred to learning pi to some biza... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/05/the-printing-of-pi/ #mischacks #piem #pi

IT News
4 months ago

This Vending Machine is for the Birds - The early bird may get the worm, but [Stephen Chasey’s] birds only get to eat if t... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/05/this-vending-machine-is-for-the-birds/ #birdfeeder #mischacks

IT News
4 months ago

Secret Bookshelf Door Uses Hidden Fingerprint Scanner - What is it that compels us about a secret door? It’s almost as if the door itself ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/secret-bookshelf-door-uses-hidden-fingerprint-scanner/ #secretdoor #mischacks #door

IT News
4 months ago

Methane-Tracking Satellites Hunt For Nasty Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Much of the reporting around climate change focuses on carbon dioxide. It’s public... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/30/methane-tracking-satellites-hunt-for-nasty-greenhouse-gas-emissions/ #greenhousegases #currentevents #climatechange #greenhousegas #originalart #satellites #mischacks #pollution #satellite #featured #methane

IT News
4 months ago

Getting into NMR Without the Superconducting Magnet - Exploring the mysteries of quantum mechanics surely seems like an endeavor that re... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/26/getting-into-nmr-without-the-superconducting-magnet/ #magneticresonance #mischacks #waterfall #hydrogen #nuclear #larmor #mri #nmr #sdr

IT News
4 months ago

Automatic Coin Sorter Brings Order to Your Coin Jar - Few things hold as much promise as the old coin jar. Unfortunately, what’s general... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/24/automatic-coin-sorter-brings-order-to-your-coin-jar/ #bowlfeeder #mischacks #arduino #counter #sorter #coins #cash #euro

IT News
4 months ago

The Art And Science of Making Beautiful Transparent Ice - For most of us, ice isn’t something we’ve thought about in detail since our high s... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/24/the-art-and-science-of-making-beautiful-transparent-ice/ #transparentice #sphericalice #originalart #mischacks #icesphere #featured #interest #clearice #ghostice #iceball #ice

IT News
4 months ago

The Wizard of Semiconductors - If you have three hours and you want to learn the fundamentals of semiconductors, ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/22/the-wizard-of-semiconductors/ #mischacks #icdesign #skywater #parts

IT News
4 months ago

LTE Sniffer Ferrets Out Cellular Communications - LTE networks have taken over from older technologies like GSM in much of the world... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/18/lte-sniffer-ferrets-out-cellular-communications/ #cellularnetwork #cellularphone #cellsniffing #mischacks #cellphone #radio #lte #sdr

IT News
2 years ago

YOU Are A Projection of Your Influences - Who are you? No, who are you really? You’re an amalgamation of influences from you... - https://hackaday.com/2021/11/18/you-are-a-projection-of-your-influences/ #refraction #typography #mischacks #identity #lasercut #prism #art

IT News
3 years ago

USB Bell Rings in Custom Terminal - Old TeleTypes and even typewriters had bells. Real bells. So that ASCII BEL character is supposed ... - https://hackaday.com/2020/09/13/usb-bell-rings-in-custom-terminal/ #mischacks #mcp2221a #bell #bel #hid #usb