- — Lies, Big Lies and LED Lightbulb Lifespan Promises
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at 10/29/24 5:00pmWe have probably all seen the marketing blurbs on packaging and elsewhere promoting the amazing lifespan of LED lighting solutions. Theoretically you should be able to install a LED bulb read more- — Custom Fan Controller For Otherwise Fanless PCs
- at 10/29/24 2:00pmMost of us using desktop computers, and plenty of us on laptops, have some sort of fan or pump installed in our computer to remove heat and keep our machines read more
- — Another Commodore Portable We Never (Quite) Received
- at 10/29/24 12:30pmThe story of Commodore computers is one of some truly great machines for their time, and of the truly woeful marketing that arguably spelled their doom. But theres another Commodore read more
- — Boss Byproducts: Fulgurites Are Fossilized Lightning
- at 10/29/24 11:00amSo far in this series, weve talked about man-made byproducts Fordite, which is built-up layers of cured car enamel, and Trinitite, which was created during the first nuclear bomb read more
- — Little Quadruped Has PCB Spine And No Wiring
- at 10/29/24 9:30amDealing with all the wiring can quickly become a challenge on robots, especially the walking variety which have actuators everywhere. [Eric Yufeng Wu] sidestepped the wiring issue by creating Q8bot, read more
- — 2024 Supercon: Last Minute Announcements
- at 10/29/24 8:00amIf youre hear a rushing noise, dont be alarmed thats just the rapidly approaching 2024 Hackaday Supercon. As hard as it is to believe, a whole year has gone read more
- — Asahi Linux Brings Better Gaming to Apple Silicon
- at 10/29/24 5:00amFor those of you longing for better gaming on an Apple Silicon device, Asahi Linux is here to help. While Apples own line of CPUs are relatively new kids on read more
- — Compact Dedicated News Reader Always Brings You CBC
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at 10/29/24 2:00amYour phone or laptop will give you access to the vast majority of news in the world, in languages you can read and a few hundred you cant. Maybe you read more - — Making PCB Strip Filter Design Easy to Understand
- at 10/28/24 11:00pmWeve always been fascinated by things that perform complex electronic functions merely by virtue of their shapes. Waveguides come to mind, but so do active elements like filters made from read more
- — Raspberry Pi OS’s Wayland Transition Completed With Switch to Labwc
- at 10/28/24 8:00pmWith the latest release of Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) the end of the X Window System has become reality, completing a years-long transition period. Although this change between display read more
- — Interfacing Old Burglar Alarm Sensors Into HomeAssistant
- at 10/28/24 5:00pmThe annoying thing about commercial smart home gear is its lack of interoperability. HomeAssistant is very flexible though, and its easy to use all kinds of gear—even stuff you bodge read more
- — Turning a Quansheng Handheld Into A Neat Desktop Transceiver
- at 10/28/24 2:00pmThe Quansheng UV-K5 is a popular handheld radio. Its useful out of the box, but also cherished for its modification potential. [OM0ET] purchased one of these capable VHF/UHF radios, but read more
- — The Woodworker’s Cyberdeck
- at 10/28/24 12:30pmComputers were supposed to be personal, customizable, and cool. At times, in this cold modern world, we forget that. However, the cyberdeck scene is chock full of people building creative, read more
- — Word of the Day Calendar Is Great Use of E-Paper
- at 10/28/24 9:30amIf youre trying to learn a new language, there are always a lot of words to learn. A word-of-the-day calendar can help, and theyre often readily available off the shelf. read more
- — FreeBSD at 30: the History and Future of the Most Popular BSD-Based OS
- at 10/28/24 8:00amProbably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first read more
- — Video Provides Rare Look Inside China’s Space Station
- at 10/28/24 5:00amChina has a space station its called Tiangong, the first module was launched in 2021, and its all going quite swimmingly, thank you very much. Thats essentially what we read more
- — Lock-In Thermography on a Cheap IR Camera
- at 10/28/24 2:00amSeeing the unseen is one of the great things about using an infrared (IR) camera, and even the cheap-ish ones that plug into a smartphone can dramatically improve your hardware read more
- — The Pound ( or Euro, Or Dollar ) Can Still Be In Your Pocket
- at 10/27/24 8:00pmA British journalistic trope involves the phrase The pound in your pocket, a derisory reference to the 1960s Prime Minister Harold Wilsons use of it to try to persuade the read more
- — Hackaday Links: October 27, 2024
- at 10/27/24 5:00pmProblem solved? If the problem is supplying enough lithium to build batteries for all the electric vehicles that will be needed by 2030, then a new lithium deposit in Arkansas read more
- — BNCs For An Old Instrument
- at 10/27/24 2:00pmBack in the summer our eye was caught by [Jazzy Jane]s new signal generator, or perhaps we should say her new-to-her signal generator. Its an Advance E1 from around 1950, read more
- — Apple iOS 18’s New Repair Assistant: Easier Parts Pairing Yet With Many Limitations
- at 10/27/24 11:00amOver the years, Apple has gone all-in on parts pairing. Virtually every component in an iPhone and iPad has a unique ID thats kept in a big database over at read more
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