A High Resolution DAC From Scratch It’s a well-known conundrum that while most computers these days are digital in nature, almost nothing in nature is. Most things we encounter in the real world, whether it’s temperature, …read more #hacking #projects image
How Your SID May Not Be As Tuneful As You’d Like The MOS Technologies 6581, or SID, is perhaps the integrated circuit whose sound is most sought-after in the chiptune world. Its three voices and mix of waveforms define so much …read more #hacking #projects image
Building A Ham Radio Data Transceiver On The Cheap Once upon a time, ham radio was all about CW and voice transmissions and little else. These days, the hobby is altogether richer, with a wide range of fancy digital …read more #hacking #projects image
When USB Charger Marketing Claims are Technically True We have seen many scam USB chargers appear over the years, with a number of them being enthusiastically ripped apart and analyzed by fairly tame electrical engineers. Often these are …read more #hacking #projects image
Cold Sensor, Hot Results: Upgrading a DSLR for Astrophotography When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result. One major cause of noise in CMOS sensors is heat—even small …read more #hacking #projects image
Build A 3D Printed Tide Clock So You Know When The Sea Is Coming To Get You The tides! Such a unique thing, because on Earth, we don’t just have oceans full of liquid water—we also have a big ol’ moon called Moon to pull them around. …read more #hacking #projects image
Pulling a High Vacuum with Boiling Mercury If you need to create a high vacuum, there are basically two options: turbomolecular pumps and diffusion pumps. Turbomolecular pumps require rotors spinning at many thousands of rotations per minute …read more #hacking #projects image
Hackaday Podcast Episode 340: The Best Programming Language, Space Surgery, and Hacking Two 3D Printers into One Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to share their favorite hacks of the week with you. If you listen in, you’ll hear exciting news about the upcoming SuperCon and …read more #hacking #projects image
A Treasure Trove Of Random Vintage Tech Resources Finding, collecting, and restoring vintage tech is the rewarding pastime of many a Hackaday reader. Working with old-school gear can be tough, though, when documentation or supporting resources are hard …read more #hacking #projects image
This Week in Security: CVSS 0, Chwoot, and Not in the Threat Model This week a reader sent me a story about a CVE in Notepad++, and something isn’t quite right. The story is a DLL hijack, a technique where a legitimate program’s …read more #hacking #projects image