It’s Not a Leica, It’s a Lumix There’s an old adage in photography that the best camera in the world is the one in your hand when the shot presents itself, but there’s no doubt that a …read more #hacking #projects image
The Time Clock Has Stood the Test of Time No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an old-fashioned punch clock with the longish time cards and everything. …read more #hacking #projects image
Drive 1024×600 Pixels via I2C with an ATtiny85 If you need to drive a big screen for a project, it’s fair to say your first thought isn’t going to be to use the ATtiny85. With just 512 bytes …read more #hacking #projects image
The Issue With Wii U Gamepads and How to Clone Them How hard would it be to clone the Wii U gamepad, the quirky controller with its unique embedded screen? This is the question that [MattKC] faced as he noticed the …read more #hacking #projects image
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform A talk, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Fourier Transform, was presented by [Joshua Wise] at Teardown 2025 in June last year. Click-through for the notes or check out the video …read more #hacking #projects image
Co-Extrusion Carbon Fiber FDM Filament Investigated After previously putting carbon fiber-reinforced PLA filament under the (electron) microscope, the [I built a thing] bloke is back with a new video involving PLA-CF, this time involving co-extrusion rather …read more #hacking #projects image
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 image
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 image
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 image
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 image