What if Tinkercad was Self-Hosted? While we use a lot of CAD tools, many of us are fans of Tinkercad — especially for working with kids or just doing something quick. But many people dislike …read more #hacking #projects

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What If Tinkercad Was Self-Hosted?

While we use a lot of CAD tools, many of us are fans of Tinkercad — especially for working with kids or just doing something quick. But many ...

Thermite Pottery Fires Itself Finely powdered aluminium can make almost anything more pyrotechnically interesting, from fireworks to machine shop cleanups – even ceramics, as [Degree of Freedom] discovered. He was experimenting with mixing aluminium …read more #hacking #projects

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Thermite Pottery Fires Itself

Finely powdered aluminium can make almost anything more pyrotechnically interesting, from fireworks to machine shop cleanups – even ceramics, as ...

Relay Computer Knows the Sequence When we first saw [DiPDoT’s] homebrew computer, we thought it was an Altair 8800. But, no. While it has a very familiar front panel, the working parts are all based …read more #hacking #projects

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Relay Computer Knows The Sequence

When we first saw [DiPDoT’s] homebrew computer, we thought it was an Altair 8800. But, no. While it has a very familiar front panel, the work...

Get Ready for Supercon It’s just about all we can think about over here: the week leading up to the 2025 Superconference. From what we hear, it’s all-hands-on over in Pasadena right now, as …read more #hacking #projects

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Get Ready For Supercon

It’s just about all we can think about over here: the week leading up to the 2025 Superconference. From what we hear, it’s all-hands-on over in...

Identifying Fake Small-Signal Transistors It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they are sold as. Outside of dedicated platforms like Mouser, Digikey …read more #hacking #projects

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Identifying Fake Small-Signal Transistors

It’s rather amazing how many electronic components you can buy right now are not quite the genuine parts that they are sold as. Outside of de...

Teaching Math with 3D Printers We’ve often thought that 3D printers make excellent school projects. No matter what a student’s interests are: art, software, electronics, robotics, chemistry, or physics, there’s something for everyone. A recent …read more #hacking #projects

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Teaching Math With 3D Printers

We’ve often thought that 3D printers make excellent school projects. No matter what a student’s interests are: art, software, electroni...

Avoid Missed Connections with The Connectorbook’s Web Tool Connectors are wonderful and terrible things. Wonderful, in that splicing wires every time you need to disassemble something is really, really annoying. Terrible in that it can be just such …read more #hacking #projects

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Avoid Missed Connections With The Connectorbook’s Web Tool

Connectors are wonderful and terrible things. Wonderful, in that splicing wires every time you need to disassemble something is really, really anno...

The Great ADS1115 Pricing and Sourcing Mystery Following up on the recent test of a set of purported ADS1115 ADCs sourced from Amazon [James Bowman] didn’t just test a genuine Ti part, but also dug into some …read more #hacking #projects

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The Great ADS1115 Pricing And Sourcing Mystery

Following up on the recent test of a set of purported ADS1115 ADCs sourced from Amazon [James Bowman] didn’t just test a genuine Ti part, but...

Making a Cardboard Airplane Wing Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did not stop [PeterSripol] from building an ultralight …read more #hacking #projects

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Making A Cardboard Airplane Wing

Ideally, an aircraft would be made of something reasonably strong, light, and weather resistant. Cardboard, is none of those things. But that did n...

Tiny UPS Keeps WiFi Online For any mission-critical computer system, it’s a good idea to think about how the system will handle power outages. At the very least it’s a good idea to give the …read more #hacking #projects

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Tiny UPS Keeps WiFi Online

For any mission-critical computer system, it’s a good idea to think about how the system will handle power outages. At the very least it&#821...