Supercon 2023: Restoring the Apollo Guidance Computer Lewin Day | usagoldmines.com
Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over...
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Hardware-in-the-Loop Continuous Integration Elliot Williams | usagoldmines.com
How can you tell if your software is doing what it’s supposed to? Write some...
What Happens If You Speedrun Making A CPU? Julian Scheffers | usagoldmines.com
Usually, designing a CPU is a lengthy process, especially so if you’re making a new...
Amazon Receives FAA Approval for MK30 Delivery Drone Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
It’s been about a decade since Amazon began to fly its delivery drones, aiming to...
A CO2 Traffic Light On An SAO Dave Rowntree | usagoldmines.com
clearly has an awareness of the impact of an excess concentration of CO2...
Random Wire Antenna Uses No Wire Al Williams | usagoldmines.com
Ideally, if you are going to transmit, you want a properly-tuned resonant antenna. But, sometimes,...
Zinc Creep and Electroplasticity: Why Arecibo Collapsed Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
It’s been nearly four years since the Arecibo Telescope collapsed, an event the world got...
PicoROM, A DIP-32 8-Bit ROM Emulator Dave Rowntree | usagoldmines.com
As we all know, when developing software for any platform or simply hacking a bit...
Bitfinex Breach Launderer Heather Morgan Says She Was ‘In Complete Shock’ When Husband Told Her About Hack Conor Devitt | usagoldmines.com
Heather Morgan says she was “in complete shock” when she discovered her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein,...
Split-Flap Clock Flutters Its Way to Displaying Time Without Numbers Donald Papp | usagoldmines.com
Here’s a design for a split-flap clock that doesn’t do it the usual way. Instead...
Open-Source Robot Transforms Bryan Cockfield | usagoldmines.com
Besides Pokémon, there might have been no greater media franchise for a child of the...
Ubiquitous Successful Bus: Hacking USB 2 Hubs Arya Voronova | usagoldmines.com
USB 2 hubs are, by now, omnipresent. it doesn’t cost much to add to your...
Tracking Hydrogen in Space With a Home Radio Telescope For 21 cm Emissions Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
What do you get when you put a one-meter parabolic dish, an SDR, a Raspberry...
Flirting With Kessler: why Space Debris Physics Make it Such an Orbital Pain Maya Posch | usagoldmines.com
Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now...
AI Not Needed For Hackaday Projects Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
It was Supercon this weekend, and Hackaday staffers made their way to Pasadena for what...
Flaming Power Wheels Skeleton Wins Halloween Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
When the project description starts with the sentence “I use an RC remote and receiver,...
iPod Clickwheel Games Preservation Project Navarre Bartz | usagoldmines.com
The iPod once reigned supreme in the realm of portable music. Hackers are now working...
Humble Television Tubes Make An FM Regenerative Radio Jenny List | usagoldmines.com
The regenerative radio is long-ago superseded in commercial receivers, but it remains a common project...
A Lesson in RF Design Thanks to This Homebrew LNA Dan Maloney | usagoldmines.com
If you’re planning on working satellites or doing any sort of RF work where the...
Power-Over-Skin Makes Powering Wearables Easier Navarre Bartz | usagoldmines.com
The ever-shrinking size of electronics and sensors has allowed wearables to help us quantify more...