Tech in Plain Sight: Pneumatic Tubes Today, if you can find a pneumatic tube system at all, it is likely at a bank drive-through. A conversation in the Hackaday bunker revealed something a bit surprising. Apparently, …read more #hacking #projects
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Tech In Plain Sight: Pneumatic Tubes
Today, if you can find a pneumatic tube system at all, it is likely at a bank drive-through. A conversation in the Hackaday bunker revealed somethi...
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TMS9900-based Home Brew Computer [Usagi Electric] is known for minicomputers, but in a recent video, he shows off his TMS9900-based homebrew computer. The TMS9900 CPU was an early 16-bit CPU famously used in the old …read more #hacking #projects
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TMS9900-based Home Brew Computer
[Usagi Electric] is known for minicomputers, but in a recent video, he shows off his TMS9900-based homebrew computer. The TMS9900 CPU was an early...
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Reverse Engineering the Miele Diagnostic Interface Since modern household appliances now have an MCU inside, they often have a diagnostic interface and — sometimes — more. Case in point: Miele washing machines, like the one that …read more #hacking #projects
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Reverse Engineering The Miele Diagnostic Interface
Since modern household appliances now have an MCU inside, they often have a diagnostic interface and — sometimes — more. Case in point:...
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An Introduction to DC Motor Technology [Thinking Techie] takes us back to basics in a recent video explaining how magnets, coils, brushed DC motors, and brushless DC motors work. If this is on your “to learn” …read more #hacking #projects
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An Introduction To DC Motor Technology
[Thinking Techie] takes us back to basics in a recent video explaining how magnets, coils, brushed DC motors, and brushless DC motors work. If this...
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Supersized Calculator Brings the Whole Intel 4000 Gang Together Though mobile devices and Apple Silicon have seen ARM-64 explode across the world, there’s still decent odds you’re reading this on a device with an x86 processor — the direct …read more #hacking #projects
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Supersized Calculator Brings The Whole Intel 4004 Gang Together
Though mobile devices and Apple Silicon have seen ARM-64 explode across the world, there’s still decent odds you’re reading this on a d...
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Hackaday Links: November 16, 2025 We make no claims to be an expert on anything, but we do know that rule number one of working with big, expensive, mission-critical equipment is: Don’t break the big, …read more #hacking #projects
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Hackaday Links: November 16, 2025
We make no claims to be an expert on anything, but we do know that rule number one of working with big, expensive, mission-critical equipment is: D...
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The Simplest Ultrasound Sensor Module, Minus the Module Just about every “getting started with microcontrollers” kit, Arduino or otherwise, includes an ultrasonic distance sensor module. Given the power of microcontrollers these days, it was only a matter of …read more #hacking #projects
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The Simplest Ultrasound Sensor Module, Minus The Module
Just about every “getting started with microcontrollers” kit, Arduino or otherwise, includes an ultrasonic distance sensor module. Give...
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The King of Rocket Photography If you are a nerdy kid today, you have your choice of wondrous gadgets and time wasters. When we were nerdy kids, our options were somewhat limited: there was ham …read more #hacking #projects
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The King Of Rocket Photography
If you are a nerdy kid today, you have your choice of wondrous gadgets and time wasters. When we were nerdy kids, our options were somewhat limited...
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Using Multiple Quadcopters to Efficiently Lift Loads Together Much like calling over a buddy or two to help with moving a large piece of furniture and pivot it up a narrow flight of stairs, so too can quadcopters …read more #hacking #projects
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Using Multiple Quadcopters To Efficiently Lift Loads Together
Much like calling over a buddy or two to help with moving a large piece of furniture and pivot it up a narrow flight of stairs, so too can quadcopt...
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An AI By Any Other Name While there are many AI programs these days, they don’t all work in the same way. Most large language model “chatbots” generate text by taking input tokens and predicting the …read more #hacking #projects
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An AI By Any Other Name
While there are many AI programs these days, they don’t all work in the same way. Most large language model “chatbots” generate t...