Humans Can Learn Echolocation Too Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Most of us associate echolocation with bats. These amazing creatures are able to chirp at...
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The Junk Machine Prints Corrupted Advertising On Demand Donald Papp | usagoldmines.com
’s art project The Junk Machine is an interactive and eye-catching machine that, on demand,...
Electric Motors Run Continuously at Near-Peak Power Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
For a lot of electrical and mechanical machines, there are nominal and peak ratings for...
Building A Pi-Powered LED Chess Board Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
If you live near Central Park or some other local chess hub, you’re likely never...
Solar Orbiter Takes Amazing Solar Pictures Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
There’s an old joke that they want to send an exploratory mission to the sun,...
Bank Executive Drains $60,181 From Dead Customer’s Account, Tells Colleagues He’s in Touch With Client: Report Mark Emem | usagoldmines.com
A former executive at the seventh-largest bank in the US just admitted to taking tens...
An Over-Engineered Basement Monitor Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
has a basement that depends on a sump pump. What that means is if...
E-Ink Screen Combined With Analog Dial Is Epic Win Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Analog dials used to be a pretty common way of displaying information on test equipment...
Square Roots 1800s Style — No, the Other 1800s Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
presents a Babylonian tablet dating back to around 1800 BC that shows that the...
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the TRON Keyboard Kristina Panos | usagoldmines.com
was craving a new keyboard build a few weeks ago and got inspired by...
Experimental Drone Flies Like A Bird Danie Conradie | usagoldmines.com
Most RC planes follow a simple control scheme: elevators for pitch, rudder for yaw, and...
Apollo-era PCB Reverse Engineering to KiCad Chris Lott | usagoldmines.com
Earlier this year got ahold of a Apollo-era printed circuit board which he believes...
The Lancaster ASCII Keyboard Recreated Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
It is hard to imagine that there was a time when having a keyboard and...
Hacking Global Positioning Systems Onto 16th-Century Maps Heidi Ulrich | usagoldmines.com
What if GPS had existed in 1565? No satellites or microelectronics, sure—but let’s play along....
Programmable Zener is Really an IC Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
doesn’t stock zener diodes anymore. Why? Because for everything he used to use zeners,...
Aftershock II: How Students Shattered 20-Year Amateur Rocket Records Heidi Ulrich | usagoldmines.com
When it comes to space exploration, we often think of billion-dollar projects—NASA’s Artemis missions, ESA’s...
Hackaday Links: November 24, 2024 Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
We received belated word this week of the passage of Ward Christensen, who died unexpectedly...
Double Your Analog Oscilloscope Fun with this Retro Beam Splitter Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
These days, oscilloscope hacking is all about enabling features that the manufacturer baked into the...
Flyback, Done Right Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
A common part used to create a high voltage is a CRT flyback transformer, having...
RISC CPU Lives in Excel Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
Last time we checked in on , he had made a 16-bit CPU in Excel....