Turning Down the Noise on SMPS Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
On paper, electricity behaves in easy-to-understand, predictable ways. That’s mostly because the wires on the...
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Nermeen Nabil Khear Recreating A Braun Classic With 3D Printing Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Braun was once a mighty pillar of industrial design; a true titan of the mid-century...
Repairing a Legendary Elka Synthex Analog Synthesizer Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
Handy diagnostic LEDs on the side of the tone generator boards. (Credit: Mend it Mark,...
Ask Hackaday: What Would You Do With the World’s Smallest Microcontroller? Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty:...
Build Your Own Air Mouse, Okay? Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Are you using a desk mouse like some kind of… normal computer user? Why, beg...
Relativity Space Changes Course on Path to Orbit Tom Nardi | usagoldmines.com
In 2015, Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone founded Relativity Space around an ambitious goal: to...
3D Printed Brick Layers for Everyone Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
Some slicers have introduced brick layers, and more slicers plan to add them. Until that...
A 6502, In The Shell Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
Shell scripting is an often forgotten programming environment, relegated to simple automation tasks and little...
The Amiga No One Wanted Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
The Amiga has a lot of fans, and rightly so. The machine broke a lot...
Wire Recording Speaks Again Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
If you think of old recording technology, you probably think of magnetic tape, either in...
Hackaday Links: March 16, 2025 Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
“The brickings will continue until the printer sales improve!” This whole printer-bricking thing seems to...
Blue Ghost Watches Lunar Eclipse from the Lunar Surface Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander’s first look at the solar eclipse as it began to emerge...
Inside a “Budget” Current Probe Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
Current measurements are not as handy as voltage measurements. You typically need to either measure...
JPMorgan Chase Tricked Into Signing $175,000,000 Deal to Acquire Sham Company in Alleged Bank Fraud Conspiracy: Report Alex Richardson | usagoldmines.com
A data scientist who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton School allegedly played...
Transmitting Wireless Power Over Longer Distances Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
Proof-of-concept of the inductive coupling transmitter with the 12V version of the circuitry (Credit: Hyperspace...
A Look at the Panasonic FS-A1FM Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
MSX computers were not very common in the United States, and we didn’t know what...
A Hacker’s Approach to All Things Antenna Heidi Ulrich | usagoldmines.com
When your homebrew Yagi antenna only sort-of works, or when your WiFi cantenna seems moody...
Repairing a Kodak Picture Maker Kiosk Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
Photo-printing kiosks are about as common as payphones these days. However, there was a time...
Building a Fully Automatic Birkeland-Eyde Reactor Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
Ever wanted to produce nitrogen fertilizer like they did in the 1900s? In that case,...
Add WebUSB Support To Firefox With a Special USB Device Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
RP2040-based Pico board acting as U2F dongle with Firefox. (Credit: ArcaneNibble, GitHub) The WebUSB standard...