For Desalination, Follow the Sun Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
It’s easy to use electricity — solar-generated or otherwise — to desalinate water. However, traditional...
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The 2024 Hackaday Supercon SAO Badge Reveal Elliot Williams | usagoldmines.com
We’ve been hinting at it for a few months now, running a series of articles...
Pushing the Plasma Limits With a Custom Flyback Transformer Danie Conradie | usagoldmines.com
For serious high-voltage plasma, you need a serious transformer. from Plasma Channel is...
In its Second Year, JawnCon Was Bigger and Better Tom Nardi | usagoldmines.com
Starting a hacker con is hardly what anyone would describe as easy — but arguably,...
Libre Space Foundation Aims to Improve Satellite Tech Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
There’s no shortage of movies, TV shows, and books that show a dystopian future with...
“Click to Cancel” Coming Soon Navarre Bartz | usagoldmines.com
If you’ve ever had to suffer through a call tree and a 9,000 hour wait...
Police Analyze Monero (XMR) Transactions To Arrest 18 People Suspected of Fraud in Japan: Report Daily Hodl Staff | usagoldmines.com
Japanese authorities, including the National Police Agency and a joint task force from nine prefectural...
Pac-Man Ghost Helps With Air Quality Sensing Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
In the past, building construction methods generally didn’t worry much about air quality. There were...
Nuclear Tomb Must Survive Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
It is hard to imagine that much we built today will be used ten years...
Zero To Custom MacroPad In 37 Easy Steps Dave Rowntree | usagoldmines.com
clearly has a knack for explaining projects well enough for easy reproduction but...
The 1983 Clock Four Decades in the Making Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
In 1983, a 14-year-old saw an LED clock in The Sharper Image store. At...
Strange English Teaching Computer Might Have Been Big in Japan Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
bought something strange on an auction site: a Japanese Cefucom-21 from 1983. No? Didn’t...
2024 Supercon: Third Round of Super Speakers Elliot Williams | usagoldmines.com
The third and final round of the 2024 Supercon talks announcements brings us to the...
Open-Source, 3D Printed Trackpad Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
Touchpads, or trackpads, have been around since the 1980s. Today, you can often find them...
An SAO for Hams Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
Generally speaking, the Hackaday Supercon badge will always have a place for SAO (rebranded as...
I2C the Hard Way Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
has an AS5600 magnetic rotary encoder chip on a breakout board. Normally, you’d think...
Save A Packet, Use Cheap Co-Ax! Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
Anyone who works with radio transmitters will know all about matching and impedance, and also...
The Design Process For A Tiny Robot Brain Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
As things get smaller, we can fit more processing power into devices like robots to...
Feeling a Pong of Nostalgia: Does it Hold Up In 2024? Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
We have probably all been there: that sudden memory of playing a (video) game and...
Hackaday Links: October 20, 2024 Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
When all else fails, there’s radio. Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction through Appalachia stripped away...