No Acid: Open ICs with a Tesla Coil

We’ve taken ICs apart before, but if they are in an epoxy package, it requires Read More →

Phone Thermal Cameras Get Open Source Desktop Tools

Whenever phone-based thermal cameras are brought up here on Hackaday, we inevitably receive some comments Read More →

Tearing Down and Improving a Professional Power Supply

[OZ2CPU] has an HP power supply that is about 30 years old. It looks brand Read More →

An Open-Source Antikythera Mechanism

When the Antikythera Mechanism was first discovered, it wasn’t viewed as the wonder that we Read More →

Linux Device Drivers in Only a Few Years

[Johannes 4GNU_Linux] has been filming a video series on how to write Linux device drivers Read More →

suc Aims to Replace Slack in Five Lines of Bash

The design philosophy of Unix is fairly straightforward. Software should do one thing as simply Read More →

The Man Whose ‘Scopes We All Wanted To Own: Walter LeCroy

We’re sorry to say that back in May we missed the passing of Walter LeCroy, Read More →

A Quick Look at the Hilbert Transform

While the Fourier transform gets all the attention, there are other transforms that engineers and Read More →

Hackaday Links: July 9, 2023

Good news this week from Mars, where Ingenuity finally managed to check in with its Read More →

Hackaday Prize 2023: Supercapacitors Let Solar Speaker Work in Darkness

Solar panels are a great way to generate clean electricity, but require some energy storage Read More →

Using an Old Satellite to See the Earth in a New Light

Snooping in on satellites is getting to be quite popular, enough so that the number Read More →

How Voltage-Controlled MRAM Devices Can Be Used To Create Unique Fingerprints Of Microelectronic Chips

A technical paper titled “Reconfigurable Physically Unclonable Functions Based on Nanoscale Voltage-Controlled Magnetic Tunnel Junctions” Read More →

Hackaday Prize 2023: Wear-a-Chorder Lets Discreet Chording Keyboards Do The Talking

Being mute or speech-challenged can be a barrier, and [Raymond Li] has an interesting project Read More →

The Other Way To Fight Software Rental

It’s been a distressing trend over the last decade, that of taking commercial software from Read More →

Watch Those 1% Resistors

Decades ago, electronic components were not as easy to acquire as they are today. Sure, Read More →

A Controller for More Than Thumbs

As virtual reality continues to make headway into the modern zeitgeist, it is still lacking Read More →

Inexpensive Ham Radio Gets Upgrades Thanks to a Trojan

Love them or hate them, the crop of cheap hand-held amateur radio transceivers is here Read More →

Better Noise Reduction with Science

Most noise-blocking headphones fall into two categories: they use some kind of material to absorb Read More →

FreeCAD is Simple, According to This Tutorial

Remember learning to tie your shoes or ride a bike? Like many things, that’s easy Read More →

A Tale Of Two LÄMPs

Building with LEDs is a hacker pastime like no other – what’s more, if you Read More →

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