Finding A Way To Produce Powerful Motors Without Rare Earths The electric vehicle revolution has created market forces to drive all sorts of innovations. Battery technology has progressed at a rapid pace, and engineers have developed ways to charge vehicles …read more #hacking #projects image
Great Trains, Not So Great AI Chatbot Security A joy of covering the world of the European hackerspace community is that it offers the chance for train travel across the continent using the ever-good-value Interrail pass. For a …read more #hacking #projects image
Ask Hackaday: Do You Curb Shop Components? I’m not proud. When many of us were kids, we were unabashedly excited when trash day came around because sometimes you’d find an old radio or — jackpot — an …read more #hacking #projects image
An SD Card of Your Own For Microcontroller Projects If you’ve wiring up a microcontroller and need some kind of storage, it’s likely you’ll reach for an SD card. Compared to other ways of holding data on your project, …read more #hacking #projects image
Fixing a KS Jive DAB Radio with a Dash of Fake ICs The exciting part about repairing consumer electronics is that you are never quite sure what you are going to find. In a recent video by [Mick] of Buy it Fix …read more #hacking #projects image
The ARCTURUS Computer Developed at Sydney University in the 1960s [State of Electronics] have released their latest video about ARCTURUS, the 14th video in their series The Computer History of Australia. ARCTURUS was a research computer system developed on a …read more #hacking #projects image
Electronic Nose Sniffs out Mold It turns out, that mold is everywhere. The problem is when it becomes too much, as mold infestations can have serious health effects on both humans and animals. Remediation is …read more #hacking #projects image
Optimizing a Desktop, 3D Printed Wind Tunnel You’ve heard of wind tunnels– get some airflow going over a thingy, put some some smoke on, and voila! Flow visualization. How hard could it be? Well, as always, the …read more #hacking #projects image
The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late ’90s to quite literally hundreds today, not counting minor variations. There lately seems …read more #hacking #projects image
Michelson Interferometer Comes Home Cheap We suspect there are three kinds of people in the world. People who have access to a Michelson Interferometer and are glad, those who don’t have one and don’t know …read more #hacking #projects image