DIY Grid Dip Meter Teardown You don’t see them much anymore, but there was a time when any hobbyist who dealt with RF probably had a grid dip meter. The idea was to have an …read more #hacking #projects

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DIY Grid Dip Meter Teardown

You don’t see them much anymore, but there was a time when any hobbyist who dealt with RF probably had a grid dip meter. The idea was to have...

Graphing Calculator Gets USB-C Upgrade Unlike Texas Instruments, whose graphing calculators have famously not made technological improvements in decades despite keeping the same price tag, HP has made a few more modern graphing calculators in …read more #hacking #projects

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Graphing Calculator Gets USB-C Upgrade

Unlike Texas Instruments, whose graphing calculators have famously not made technological improvements in decades despite keeping the same price ta...

Testing Laughing Gas for Rocket Propellant Nitrous oxide’s high-speed abilities don’t end with racing cars, as it’s a powerful enough oxidizer to be a practical component of rocket propellant. Since [Markus Bindhammer] is building a hybrid …read more #hacking #projects

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Testing Laughing Gas For Rocket Propellant

Nitrous oxide’s high-speed abilities don’t end with racing cars, as it’s a powerful enough oxidizer to be a practical component of rocket...

How Do PAL and NTSC Really Work? Many projects on these pages do clever things with video. Whether it’s digital or analogue, it’s certain our community can push a humble microcontroller to the limit of its capability. …read more #hacking #projects

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How Do PAL And NTSC Really Work?

Many projects on these pages do clever things with video. Whether it’s digital or analogue, it’s certain our community can push a humbl...

Build a 2K Resolution MSLA 3D Resin Printer for Cheap Have an old Android device collecting dust somewhere that you’d like to put to better use? [Electronoobs] shows us how to make a Masked Stereolithography Apparatus (MSLA) printer for cheap …read more #hacking #projects

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Build A 2K Resolution MSLA 3D Resin Printer For Cheap

Have an old Android device collecting dust somewhere that you’d like to put to better use? [Electronoobs] shows us how to make a Masked Stere...

The Rise and Fall of The In-Car Fax Machines Once upon a time, a car phone was a great way to signal to the world that you were better than everybody else. It was a clear sign that you had money …read more #hacking #projects

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The Rise And Fall Of The In-Car Fax Machines

Once upon a time, a car phone was a great way to signal to the world that you were better than everybody else. It was a clear sign that you had m...

An RP2040 Powered ADS-B Receiver If you’ve ever heard the sound of an aircraft passing overhead and looked at an online plane tracker to try and figure out what it was, then you’ve interacted with …read more #hacking #projects

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An RP2040 Powered ADS-B Receiver

If you’ve ever heard the sound of an aircraft passing overhead and looked at an online plane tracker to try and figure out what it was, then ...

Repairing a Self-Destructing SRS DG535 Digital Delay Generator There’s a lot of laboratory equipment out there that the casual hobbyist will never need to use, but that doesn’t mean you wouldn’t snap it up if the price is …read more #hacking #projects

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Repairing A Self-Destructing SRS DG535 Digital Delay Generator

There’s a lot of laboratory equipment out there that the casual hobbyist will never need to use, but that doesn’t mean you wouldn&#8217...

This 8-Bit Commodore PET Was Hard to Fix Over on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit assembly code. The Trinity of 1977 which started the personal …read more #hacking #projects

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This 8-Bit Commodore PET Was Hard To Fix

Over on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit assembly code. The Tri...

Faraday Effects Emerging from the Optical Magnetic Field As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (FE) has been used since its discovery by [Michael …read more #hacking #projects

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Faraday Effects Emerging From The Optical Magnetic Field

As an electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, it’s perhaps not so surprising that light is affected by a magnetic field. This Faraday effect (F...