BlueSCSI: Not Just for Apple Anyone into retro Macintosh machines has probably heard of BlueSCSI: an RP2040-based adapter that lets solid state flash memory sit on the SCSI bus and pretend to contain hard drives. …read more #hacking #projects

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BlueSCSI: Not Just For Apple

Anyone into retro Macintosh machines has probably heard of BlueSCSI: an RP2040-based adapter that lets solid state flash memory sit on the SCSI bus...

Building the LEM’s Legs If you built a car in, say, Germany, for use in Canada, you could assume that the roads will be more or less the same. Gravity will work the same. …read more #hacking #projects

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Building The LEM’s Legs

If you built a car in, say, Germany, for use in Canada, you could assume that the roads will be more or less the same. Gravity will work the same. ...

Etching Atomically Fine Needle Points [Vik Olliver] has been extending the lower resolution limits of 3D printers with the RepRapMicron project, which aims to print structures with a feature size of ten micrometers. A molten …read more #hacking #projects

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Etching Atomically Fine Needle Points

[Vik Olliver] has been extending the lower resolution limits of 3D printers with the RepRapMicron project, which aims to print structures with a fe...

SMD Soldering with Big Iron You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What do you do? There are a few possible answers, but …read more #hacking #projects

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SMD Soldering With Big Iron

You have some fine pitch soldering to do, but all you have on hand is a big soldering iron. What do you do? There are a few possible answers, but [...

Waverider: Scanning Spectra One Pixel at a Time Hyperspectral cameras aren’t commonplace items; they capture spectral data for each of their pixels. While commercial hyperspectral cameras often start in the tens of thousands of dollars, [anfractuosity] decided to …read more #hacking #projects

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Waverider: Scanning Spectra One Pixel At A Time

Hyperspectral cameras aren’t commonplace items; they capture spectral data for each of their pixels. While commercial hyperspectral cameras o...

Give Your Microscope Polarized $5 Shades to Fight Glare Who doesn’t know the problem of glare when trying to ogle a PCB underneath a microscope of some description? Even with a ring light, you find yourself struggling to make …read more #hacking #projects

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Give Your Microscope Polarized $5 Shades To Fight Glare

Who doesn’t know the problem of glare when trying to ogle a PCB underneath a microscope of some description? Even with a ring light, you find...

Deforming a Mirror for Adaptive Optics As frustrating as having an atmosphere can be for physicists, it’s just as bad for astronomers, who have to deal with clouds, atmospheric absorption of certain wavelengths, and other irritations. …read more #hacking #projects

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Deforming A Mirror For Adaptive Optics

As frustrating as having an atmosphere can be for physicists, it’s just as bad for astronomers, who have to deal with clouds, atmospheric absorpt...

SLM Co-extruding Hotend Makes Poopless Prints Everyone loves colourful 3D prints, but nobody loves prime towers, “printer poop” and all the plastic waste associated with most multi-material setups. Over the years, there’s been no shortage of …read more #hacking #projects

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SLM Co-extruding Hotend Makes Poopless Prints

Everyone loves colourful 3D prints, but nobody loves prime towers, “printer poop” and all the plastic waste associated with most multi-...

Making a 2-Transistor AM Radio with a Philips Electronic Engineer EE8 Kit from 1966 Back in 1966, a suitable toy for a geeky kid was a radio kit. You could find simple crystal radio sets or some more advanced ones. But some lucky kids …read more #hacking #projects

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Making A 2-Transistor AM Radio With A Philips Electronic Engineer EE8 Kit From 1966

Back in 1966, a suitable toy for a geeky kid was a radio kit. You could find simple crystal radio sets or some more advanced ones. But some lucky k...

The Singing Dentures Of Manchester And Other Places Any radio amateur will tell you about the spectre of TVI, of their transmissions being inadvertently demodulated by the smallest of non-linearity in the neighbouring antenna systems, and spewing forth …read more #hacking #projects

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The Singing Dentures Of Manchester And Other Places

Any radio amateur will tell you about the spectre of TVI, of their transmissions being inadvertently demodulated by the smallest of non-linearity i...