Preventing a Mess with the Weller WDC Solder Containment Pocket Have you ever tipped all the stray bits of solder out of your tip cleaner by mistake? [MisterHW] is here with a bit pf paraffin wax to save the day. …read more #hacking #projects image
Build A Pocket-Sized Wi-Fi Analyzer Wi-Fi! It’s everywhere, and yet you can’t really see it, by virtue of the technology relying on the transmission of electromagnetic waves outside the visual spectrum. Never mind, though, because …read more #hacking #projects image
Raising a GM EV1 from the Dead Probably the biggest story in the world of old cars over the past couple of weeks has been the surfacing of a GM EV1 electric car for sale from an …read more #hacking #projects image
Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Pretty Protoypes Some like it flat, and there’s nothing wrong with that. What you are looking at is the first prototype of Atlas by [AsicResistor], which is still a work in progress. [AsicResistor] …read more #hacking #projects image
An Introduction to Analog Filtering One of the major difficulties in studying electricity, especially when compared to many other physical phenomena, is that it cannot be observed directly by human senses. We can manipulate it …read more #hacking #projects image
Ore Formation: A Surface Level Look The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come to bring that surface-level understanding to surface-level …read more #hacking #projects image
UEFI On ARM? More Likely Than You Think Now, Rock 5 ITX+ is no x86 board, sporting an ARM Rockship RK3588 on its ITX form-factor PCB, but reading this blog post’s headline might as well give you the …read more #hacking #projects image
New Browser-based CAD System is Best Friends With Triangle Meshes Who’s interested in a brand new, from-scratch boundary representation (BREP) kernel? How about one that has no topological naming problem, a web-native parametric CAD front end to play with, and …read more #hacking #projects image
What Happens When You Pump 30,000 Watts Into a Tungsten Incandescent Light Bulb? Over on YouTube [Drake] from the [styropyro] channel investigates what happens when you take an enormous tungsten incandescent light bulb and pump 30,000 watts through it. The answer: it burns …read more #hacking #projects image
The Database Powering America’s Hospitals May Not be What You Expect Ever heard of MUMPS? Both programming language and database, it was developed in the 1960s for the Massachusetts General Hospital. The goal was to streamline the increasingly enormous timesink that …read more #hacking #projects image