Get to the Games on Time with This Ancient-Style Waterclock One easy way to make a very accurate clock is with a WiFi-enabled microcontroller like an ESP32 and a display: set up NTP, and you’ll never be off by more …read more #hacking #projects
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Get To The Games On Time With This Ancient-Style Waterclock
One easy way to make a very accurate clock is with a WiFi-enabled microcontroller like an ESP32 and a display: set up NTP, and you’ll never b...
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Making Quinetic Gear Work With Home Assistant There are lots of switches that you can use with your smarthome. Some might not be compatible with the wiring in your house, while others are battery powered and need …read more #hacking #projects
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Making Quinetic Gear Work With Home Assistant
There are lots of switches that you can use with your smarthome. Some might not be compatible with the wiring in your house, while others are batte...
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Wago’s Online Community Is Full Of Neat Wago Tools Wago connectors are somewhat controversial in the electrical world—beloved by some, decried by others. The company knows it has a dedicated user base, though, and has established the Wago Creators …read more #hacking #projects
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Wago’s Online Community Is Full Of Neat Wago Tools
Wago connectors are somewhat controversial in the electrical world—beloved by some, decried by others. The company knows it has a dedicated user ...
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Retro Style VFO Has Single-Digit Parts Count Not every project has to be complicated– reinventing the wheel has its place, but sometimes you find a module or two that does exactly what you want, and the project …read more #hacking #projects
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Retro Style VFO Has Single-Digit Parts Count
Not every project has to be complicated– reinventing the wheel has its place, but sometimes you find a module or two that does exactly what y...
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LoRa Repeater Lasts 5 Years on PVC Pipe and D Cells Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind [Bertrand Selva]’s clever LoRaTube project. LoRa is a fantastic solution for long-range …read more #hacking #projects
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LoRa Repeater Lasts 5 Years On PVC Pipe And D Cells
Sometimes it makes sense to go with plain old batteries and off-the-shelf PVC pipe. That’s the thinking behind [Bertrand Selva]’s cleve...
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Retrotechtacular: Learning the Slide Rule the New Old Fashioned Way Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashioned. But Encyclopædia Britannica has a complete …read more #hacking #projects
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Retrotechtacular: Learning The Slide Rule The New Old Fashioned Way
Learning something on YouTube seems kind of modern. But if you are watching a 1957 instructional film about slide rules, it also seems old-fashione...
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How Cross-Channel Plumbing Fuelled The Allied March On Berlin During World War II, as the Allies planned the invasion of Normandy, there was one major hurdle to overcome—logistics. In particular, planners needed to guarantee a solid supply of fuel …read more #hacking #projects
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How Cross-Channel Plumbing Fuelled The Allied March On Berlin
During World War II, as the Allies planned the invasion of Normandy, there was one major hurdle to overcome—logistics. In particular, planners ne...
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A Stylish Moon And Tide Clock For The Mantlepiece Assuming you’re not stuck in a prison cell without windows, you could feasibly keep track of the moon and tides by walking outside and jotting things down in your notebook. …read more #hacking #projects
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A Stylish Moon And Tide Clock For The Mantlepiece
Assuming you’re not stuck in a prison cell without windows, you could feasibly keep track of the moon and tides by walking outside and jottin...
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Give Us One Manual For Normies, Another For Hackers We’ve all been there. You’ve found a beautiful piece of older hardware at the thrift store, and bought it for a song. You rush it home, eager to tinker, but …read more #hacking #projects
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Give Us One Manual For Normies, Another For Hackers
We’ve all been there. You’ve found a beautiful piece of older hardware at the thrift store, and bought it for a song. You rush it home,...
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Build Your Own Glasshole Detector Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’t …read more #hacking #projects
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Build Your Own Glasshole Detector
Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence migh...
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