A Compact, Browser-Based ESP32 Oscilloscope An oscilloscope is usually the most sensitive, and arguably most versatile, tool on a hacker’s workbench, often taking billions of samples per second to produce an accurate and informative representation …read more #hacking #projects image
Shoot Instax Film In A Polaroid Camera With The Aid Of Tape Polaroid cameras have been very popular for a very long time and are especially hot gifts this year. Fresh film is easy to find but relatively expensive. In contrast, Fuji’s …read more #hacking #projects image
A Heavily Modified Rivian Attempts the Cannonball Run There are few things more American than driving a car really fast in a straight line. Occasionally, the cars will make a few left turns, but otherwise, this is the …read more #hacking #projects image
A Tiny Reflecting Telescope For Portable Astronomy For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on …read more #hacking #projects image
Building a Multi-Channel Pipette for Parallel Experimentation One major reason for the high cost of developing new drugs and other chemicals is the sheer number of experiments involved; designing a single new drug can require synthesizing and …read more #hacking #projects image
Hardware Store Marauder’s Map is Clarkian Magic The “Marauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to …read more #hacking #projects image
The ‘Hidden’ Microphone inside the Sipeed NanoKVM Recently, [Jeff Geerling] dropped into the bad press feeding frenzy around Sipeed’s NanoKVM, most notably because of a ‘hidden’ microphone that should have no business on a remote KVM solution. …read more #hacking #projects image
Two-Wheeled Arduino Robot Project for Beginners Here’s a fun build from [RootSaid] that is suitable for people just getting started with microcontrollers and robotics — an Arduino-controlled two-wheeled robot. The video assumes you already have one …read more #hacking #projects image
Retrocomputing: Simulacrum or the Real Deal? The holidays are rapidly approaching, and you probably already have a topic or two to argue with your family about. But what about with your hacker friends? We came upon …read more #hacking #projects image
Testing 8 Solder Flux Pastes After Flux Killed a GeForce2 GTS Flux is one of those things that you cannot really use too much of during soldering, as it is essential for cleaning the surface and keeping oxygen out, but as …read more #hacking #projects image