2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Weigh With A TL074 The late and lamented [Bob Pease] was one of a select band of engineers, each of whose authority in the field of analogue integrated circuit design was at the peak …read more #hacking #projects

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2025 Component Abuse Challenge: Weigh With A TL074

The late and lamented [Bob Pease] was one of a select band of engineers, each of whose authority in the field of analogue integrated circuit design...

Jenny’s Daily Drivers: ReactOS 0.4.15 When picking operating systems for a closer look here in the Daily Drivers series, the aim has not been to merely pick the next well-known Linux distro off the pile, …read more #hacking #projects

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Jenny’s Daily Drivers: ReactOS 0.4.15

When picking operating systems for a closer look here in the Daily Drivers series, the aim has not been to merely pick the next well-known Linux di...

Rocket Roll Control, The Old Fashioned Way The vast majority of model rockets go vaguely up and float vaguely downwards without a lot of control. However, [newaysfactory] built a few rockets that were altogether more precise in …read more #hacking #projects

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Rocket Roll Control, The Old Fashioned Way

The vast majority of model rockets go vaguely up and float vaguely downwards without a lot of control. However, [newaysfactory] built a few rockets...

Lithium-Ion Batteries: WHY They Demand Respect This summer, we saw the WHY (What Hackers Yearn) event happen in Netherlands, of course, with a badge to match. Many badges these days embrace the QWERTY computer aesthetic, which …read more #hacking #projects

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Lithium-Ion Batteries: WHY They Demand Respect

This summer, we saw the WHY (What Hackers Yearn) event happen in Netherlands, of course, with a badge to match. Many badges these days embrace the ...

Making Audible Sense Of A Radiation Hunt The clicking of a Geiger counter is well enough known as a signifier of radioactive materials, due to it providing the menacing sound effect any time a film or TV …read more #hacking #projects

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Making Audible Sense Of A Radiation Hunt

The clicking of a Geiger counter is well enough known as a signifier of radioactive materials, due to it providing the menacing sound effect any ti...

Adding ISA Ports To Modern Motherboards Modern motherboards don’t come with ISA slots, and almost everybody is fine with that. If you really want one, though, there are ways to get one. [TheRasteri] explains how in …read more #hacking #projects

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Adding ISA Ports To Modern Motherboards

Modern motherboards don’t come with ISA slots, and almost everybody is fine with that. If you really want one, though, there are ways to get ...

Reproduced and Recovered: the First Chinese Keyboard-based MingKwai Typewriter We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or at least many of us think we do. …read more #hacking #projects

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Reproduced And Recovered: The First Chinese Keyboard-based MingKwai Typewriter

We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or at least many of us t...

Regular Old Diodes Can Be More Photosensitive Than You Think [Dhananjay Gadre] happened across a useful little trick the other day. Take any old 1N4148 or 1N914 glass-package signal diode and wire it up right, and you’ve got yourself a …read more #hacking #projects

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Regular Old Diodes Can Be More Photosensitive Than You Think

[Dhananjay Gadre] happened across a useful little trick the other day. Take any old 1N4148 or 1N914 glass-package signal diode and wire it up right...

Print-and-Clamp: Rubber Band PCB Stand Slides into Duty When it comes to soldering on a PCB it almost always helps to have some way to hold the board off your workbench, allowing leads to pass though with out …read more #hacking #projects

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Print-and-Clamp: Rubber Band PCB Stand Slides Into Duty

When it comes to soldering on a PCB it almost always helps to have some way to hold the board off your workbench, allowing leads to pass though wit...

Dual-Arm Mobile Bot Built on IKEA Cart Costs Hundreds, Not Thousands There are many incredible open-source robotic arm projects out there, but there’s a dearth of affordable, stable, and mobile robotic platforms with arms. That’s where XLeRobot comes in. It builds …read more #hacking #projects

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Dual-Arm Mobile Bot Built On IKEA Cart Costs Hundreds, Not Thousands

There are many incredible open-source robotic arm projects out there, but there’s a dearth of affordable, stable, and mobile robotic platform...