A Lightweight Balloon Tracker For High Altitude Missions | usagoldmines.com
It’s pretty easy to take a balloon, fill it up with helium, and send it...
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Pulley System Makes Headphone Cables More Managable | usagoldmines.com
It’s 2024. You’ve probably got one or more pairs of wireless headphones around the house....
Supercon 2023: [Cory Doctorow] with an Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse | usagoldmines.com
Those of us old enough to remember BBS servers or even rainbow banners often go...
Add USB-C to Your AirPods the Easy Way | usagoldmines.com
While the death of Apple’s Lightning Connector can’t come soon enough, swapping the ports on...
Polaris Dawn, and the Prudence of a Short Spacewalk | usagoldmines.com
For months before liftoff, the popular press had been hyping up the fact that the...
Pi Zero Power Optimization Leaves No Stone Unturned | usagoldmines.com
If you’ve ever designed a battery-powered device with a Pi Zero, you have no doubt...
The 1924 Martian Signal: A Cosmic Curiosity | usagoldmines.com
In an age where our gadgets allow us to explore the cosmos, we stumbled upon...
Laptop GPU Upgrade With Just A Little Reballing | usagoldmines.com
Modern gaming laptops are in an uncomfortable spot – often too underpowered for newest titles,...
Voyager 2’s Plasma Spectrometer Turned Off in Power-Saving Measure | usagoldmines.com
The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium...
MikroPhone – Open, Secure, Simple Smartphone | usagoldmines.com
Modern smartphones try and provide a number of useful features to their users, and yet,...
Witch’s Staff Build is a Rad Glowing Costume Prop | usagoldmines.com
Let’s say you’re going to a music festival. You could just take water, sunscreen, and...
FLOSS Weekly Episode 803: Unconferencing with OggCamp | usagoldmines.com
This week Jonathan Bennett and and Simon Phipps chat with Gary Williams about OggCamp! It’s...
Retrotechtacular: Another Thing Your TV No Longer Needs | usagoldmines.com
As Hackaday writers we don’t always know what our colleagues are working on until publication...
Drive For Show, Putt for Dough | usagoldmines.com
Any golfer will attest that the most impressive looking part of the game—long drives—isn’t where...
Mining and Refining: Lead, Silver, and Zinc | usagoldmines.com
If you are in need of a lesson on just how much things have changed...
Creating Video Games With AI: a Mario Example | usagoldmines.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be doing everything these days. Making images, making videos, and...
Easily Build This IMU Array Sandbox | usagoldmines.com
These days we’re used to our devices containing an inertial measurement unit (IMU) that lets...
BBC Micro: A Retro Revamp with the 68008 Upgrade | usagoldmines.com
The BBC Microcomputer, launched in the early 1980s, holds a special place in computing history....
Xiaomi M365 Battery Fault? Just Remove A Capacitor | usagoldmines.com
Electric scooters have long been a hacker’s friend, Xiaomi ones in particular – starting with...
ROG Ally Community Rebuilds The Proprietary Asus eGPU | usagoldmines.com
As far as impressive hacks go, this one is more than enough for your daily...