Putting a Cheapo 1800W DC-DC Boost Converter to the Test These days ready-to-use DC-DC converters are everywhere, with some of the cheaper ones even being safe to use without an immediate risk to life and limb(s). This piques one’s curiosity …read more #hacking #projects
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Putting A Cheapo 1800W DC-DC Boost Converter To The Test
These days ready-to-use DC-DC converters are everywhere, with some of the cheaper ones even being safe to use without an immediate risk to life and...
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Building a Steam Loco These Days is Nothing But Hacks The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s speed record while no one was looking… and being in …read more #hacking #projects
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Building A Steam Loco These Days Is Nothing But Hacks
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s...
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Our New Years Wish is to Hide in a Giant Pokéball Between the news, the world situation, and the inevitable family stresses that come this time of year, well — one could be excused for feeling a certain amount of envy …read more #hacking #projects
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Our New Years Wish Is To Hide In A Giant Pokéball
Between the news, the world situation, and the inevitable family stresses that come this time of year, well — one could be excused for feelin...
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The Cutting Truth about Variable Capacitors If you’ve seen a big air-variable capacitor, you may have noticed that some of the plates may have slots cut into them. Why? [Mr Carlson] has the answer in the …read more #hacking #projects
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The Cutting Truth About Variable Capacitors
If you’ve seen a big air-variable capacitor, you may have noticed that some of the plates may have slots cut into them. Why? [Mr Carlson] has...
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Jon Peddie’s The Graphics Chip Chronicles On Graphics Controller History Using computers that feature a high-resolution, full-color graphical interface is commonplace today, but it took a lot of effort and ingenuity to get to this point. This long history is …read more #hacking #projects
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Jon Peddie’s The Graphics Chip Chronicles On Graphics Controller History
Using computers that feature a high-resolution, full-color graphical interface is commonplace today, but it took a lot of effort and ingenuity to g...
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Trace Tracing to the Tunes Some kind of continuity beeper has been a standard piece of gear since the dawn of electronics. Sure, you probably have an ohm meter, but sometimes you don’t care about …read more #hacking #projects
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Trace Tracing To The Tunes
Some kind of continuity beeper has been a standard piece of gear since the dawn of electronics. Sure, you probably have an ohm meter, but sometimes...
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The Many-Sprites Interpretation of Amiga Mechanics The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and richer graphics despite the limitations of early video gaming hardware. As …read more #hacking #projects
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The Many-Sprites Interpretation Of Amiga Mechanics
The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and richer graphics despite t...
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Virus-Based Thermoresponsive Separation of Rare-Earth Elements Although rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no significant concentrations that would help with mining. This does contribute to limiting their …read more #hacking #projects
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Virus-Based Thermoresponsive Separation Of Rare-Earth Elements
Although rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no significant concentrations that ...
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Tick, Tock, Train Station Clock We’ve seen a few H-bridge circuits around these parts before, and here’s another application. This time we have an Old Train Station Clock which has been refurbished after being picked …read more #hacking #projects
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Tick, Tock, Train Station Clock
We’ve seen a few H-bridge circuits around these parts before, and here’s another application. This time we have an Old Train Station Cl...
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Bringing A Yagi Antenna to 915MHz LoRa If you’re a regular reader of Hackaday, you may have noticed a certain fondness for Meshtastic devices, and the LoRa protocol more generally. LoRa is a great, low-power radio communications …read more #hacking #projects
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Bringing A Yagi Antenna To 915MHz LoRa
If you’re a regular reader of Hackaday, you may have noticed a certain fondness for Meshtastic devices, and the LoRa protocol more generally....
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