Quiet Your Drums With An Electronic Setup Playing the drums requires a lot of practice, but that practice can be incredibly loud. A nice workaround is presented by [PocketBoy], in converting an acoustic kit to electronic operation …read more #hacking #projects

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Quiet Your Drums With An Electronic Setup

Playing the drums requires a lot of practice, but that practice can be incredibly loud. A nice workaround is presented by [PocketBoy], in convertin...

Australia’s New Asbestos Scare In Schools Asbestos is a nasty old mineral. It’s known for releasing fine, microscopic fibers that can lodge in the body’s tissues and cause deadly disease over a period of decades. Originally …read more #hacking #projects

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Australia’s New Asbestos Scare In Schools

Asbestos is a nasty old mineral. It’s known for releasing fine, microscopic fibers that can lodge in the body’s tissues and cause deadl...

How To Design 3D Printed Pins that Won’t Break [Slant 3D] has a useful video explaining some thoughtful CAD techniques for designing 3D printed pins that don’t break and the concepts can be extended to similar features. Sure, one …read more #hacking #projects

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How To Design 3D Printed Pins That Won’t Break

[Slant 3D] has a useful video explaining some thoughtful CAD techniques for designing 3D printed pins that don’t break and the concepts can b...

3D Printing and the Dream of Affordable Prosthetics As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can regrow entire limbs and more. This has …read more #hacking #projects

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3D Printing And The Dream Of Affordable Prosthetics

As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can regrow entire limbs...

The New Pebble: Now 100% Open Source The Pebble was the smartwatch darling of the early 2010s, a glimpse of the future in the form of a microcontroller and screen strapped to your wrist. It was snapped …read more #hacking #projects

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The New Pebble: Now 100% Open Source

The Pebble was the smartwatch darling of the early 2010s, a glimpse of the future in the form of a microcontroller and screen strapped to your wris...

Sensor Package Aims To Predict Acid Rain Acid rain sucks, particularly if you run a fancy university with lots of lovely statues outside. If you’d like to try and predict when it’s going to occur, you might …read more #hacking #projects

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Sensor Package Aims To Predict Acid Rain

Acid rain sucks, particularly if you run a fancy university with lots of lovely statues outside. If you’d like to try and predict when it&#82...

All Handheld Antennas Are Not Born The Same If you own a handheld transceiver of any type then the chances are it will come with a “rubber duck” style antenna. These flexible rubber-coated antennas are a compromise in …read more #hacking #projects

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All Handheld Antennas Are Not Born The Same

If you own a handheld transceiver of any type then the chances are it will come with a “rubber duck” style antenna. These flexible rubb...

A Deep Dive into Using PIO and DMA on the RP2350 Here’s a fun rabbit hole to run down if you don’t already have the RP2040/RP2350 PIO feather in your cap: how to serve data without CPU intervention using PIO and …read more #hacking #projects

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A Deep Dive Into Using PIO And DMA On The RP2350

Here’s a fun rabbit hole to run down if you don’t already have the RP2040/RP2350 PIO feather in your cap: how to serve data without CPU...

Retrotechtacular: The $550K Video Conferencing System Used to Make Bee Movie The modern office environment has shifted in recent years. Employees are routinely asked to collaborate with co-workers half way around the globe and be camera ready, or whatever passes for …read more #hacking #projects

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Retrotechtacular: The $550K Video Conferencing System Used To Make Bee Movie

The modern office environment has shifted in recent years. Employees are routinely asked to collaborate with co-workers half way around the globe a...

Tiny Little TV Runs On ESP32 Few of us keep big old cathode ray tubes in the house anymore, but we can still appreciate the form factor of the classic TV. Indeed, the Tinytron from [t0mg] …read more #hacking #projects

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Tiny Little TV Runs On ESP32

Few of us keep big old cathode ray tubes in the house anymore, but we can still appreciate the form factor of the classic TV. Indeed, the Tinytron ...