- — Lasers, Galvos, Action: A Quest for Laser Mastery
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at 11/22/24 5:00pmIf you’re into hacking hardware and bending light to your will, [Shoaib Mustafa]’s latest project is bound to spike your curiosity. Combining lasers to project multi-colored beams onto a screen read more- — Build Yourself A Useful Resistor Decade Box
- at 11/22/24 2:00pmIf youve ever worked with guitar pedals or analog audio gear, youve probably realized the value of a resistor decade box. They substitute for a resistor in a circuit and read more
- — OLED Screen Mounting, Without The Pain
- at 11/22/24 12:30pmThere was a time when no self-respecting electronics engineer would build a big project without at least one panel meter. They may be a rare part here in 2024, but read more
- — Hack On Self: The Un-Crash Alarm
- at 11/22/24 11:00amEver get home, tired after work, sit down on a couch, and spend an hour or two sitting down without even managing to change into your home clothes? Its a read more
- — Enhiker Helps You Decide if its a Good Day to Hike
- at 11/22/24 9:30amMany of us check the weather before heading out for the day we want to know if were dressed (or equipped) properly to handle what Mother Nature has planned read more
- — This Week in Security: Footguns, Bing Worms, and Gogs
- at 11/22/24 8:00amThe world of security research is no stranger to the phenomenon of not-a-vulnerability. Thats where a security researcher finds something interesting, reports it to the project, and it turns out read more
- — A Surprisingly Simple Omnidirectional Display
- at 11/22/24 5:00amOld-school technology can spark surprising innovations. By combining the vintage zoetrope concept with digital displays, [Mike Ando] created the Andotrope, a surprisingly simple omnidirectional display. Unlike other 3D displays, the read more
- — Learn About Robot Arms By Building Pedro 2.0
- at 11/22/24 2:00amWhether youre a kid or a kid at heart, learning about science and engineering can be a lot more fun if its practical. You could sit around learning about motors and read more
- — Quick and Very Dirty Repair Gets Smoked PLC Back in the Game
- at 11/21/24 11:00pmWhen electronics release the Magic Smoke, more often than not its a fairly sedate event. Something overheats, the packaging gets hot enough to emit that characteristic and unmistakable odor, and read more
- — Creating and Control of Magnetic Skyrmions in Ferromagnetic Film Demonstrated
- at 11/21/24 8:00pmMagnetic skyrmions are an interesting example of solitons that occurs in ferromagnetic materials with conceivable solutions in electronics, assuming they can be created and moved at will. The creation and read more
- — Gear Up: A 15-Minute Intro on Involute Gears
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at 11/21/24 5:00pmIf you’re into CNC machining, mechanical tinkering, or just love a good engineering rabbit hole, you’re in for a treat. Substacks [lcamtuf] has written a quick yet insightful 15-minute introduction read more - — Custom Mouse Rocks Neat Thumbstick Design
- at 11/21/24 2:00pmA mouse is just two buttons, and a two-dimensional motion tracking system, right? Oh, and a scroll wheel. And a third button. Andnow youre realizing that mice can be pretty read more
- — FREE-WILi Turns DC32 Badge Into Hardware Dev Tool
- at 11/21/24 12:30pmWith few exceptions, electronic event badges are often all but forgotten as soon as the attendee gets back home. Theyre a fun novelty for the two or three days theyre read more
- — USB-C For Hackers: Reusing Cables
- at 11/21/24 11:00amYour project needs a cable, and since USB-C cables are omnipresent now, its only natural to want to reuse them for your evil schemes. Ever seen USB 3.0 cables used read more
- — There’s Now a Wiki For Hacking Redbox Machines
- at 11/21/24 9:30amWith the rapidly evolving situation surrounding the Redbox vending machines still out in the wild, its about time somebody put together a Wiki to keep it all straight. The unredbox read more
- — Blended Wing Body Passenger Airplanes and the End of Winged Tubes
- at 11/21/24 8:00amAsk someone to picture an airplane and theyre likely to think of what is essentially a tube with wings and a stabilizing tail tacked onto one end of said tube. read more
- — Measuring the Mighty Roar of SpaceX’s Starship Rocket
- at 11/21/24 5:00amSpaceXs Starship is the most powerful launch system ever built, dwarfing even the mighty Saturn V both in terms of mass and total thrust. The scale of the vehicle is read more
- — Simple Hydrogen Generator Makes Bubbles and Looks Cool
- at 11/21/24 2:00amHydrogen! Its a highly flammable gas that seems way too cool to be easy to come by. And yet, its actually trivial to make it out of water if you read more
- — Simple Stack of Ferrites Shows How Fluxgate Magnetometers Work
- at 11/20/24 11:00pmHave you ever wondered how a magnetometer works? We sure have, which was why we were happy to stumble upon this article on simple homebrew fluxgate magnetometers. As [Maurycy] explains, read more
- — Stepping On LEGO For Science
- at 11/20/24 8:00pmYou might say that the worst LEGO to step on is any given piece that happens to get caught underfoot, but have you ever thought about what the worst one read more
- — A Tube Stereo Amplifier, From Scratch
- at 11/20/24 5:00pmA conventional tube amplifier has a circuit whose fundamentals were well in place around a hundred years ago, so there are few surprises to be found in building one today. read more
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