Taking a Look at Variable Vacuum Capacitors Variable capacitors may be useful, but the air gap that provides their capacitance is their greatest weakness. Rather than deal with the poor dielectric properties of air, some high-end variable …read more #hacking #projects

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Taking A Look At Variable Vacuum Capacitors

Variable capacitors may be useful, but the air gap that provides their capacitance is their greatest weakness. Rather than deal with the poor diele...

Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard At the risk of starting a controversy: is there anyone who goes to the effort of setting up Home Assistant who wouldn’t really rather be living on the Enterprise-D? If …read more #hacking #projects

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Smart Home? Make It Smart Quarters With This LCARS Dashboard

At the risk of starting a controversy: is there anyone who goes to the effort of setting up Home Assistant who wouldn’t really rather be livi...

EnderSpark: Convert Your Broken Creality FDM Printer Into An EDM machine! EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and therefore somewhat underrepresented in the DIY and hacker scenes. It’s with great delight that …read more #hacking #projects

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EnderSpark: Convert Your Broken Creality FDM Printer Into An EDM Machine!

EDM (Electrical Discharge Machining) is one of those specialised manufacturing processes that are traditionally expensive and therefore somewhat un...

A New Kind of Inductively-damped Compass At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork in a cup of water. …read more #hacking #projects

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A New Kind Of Inductively-damped Compass

At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a magnetized needle on a cork ...

The Intel 8087 and Conditional Microcode Tests Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode contains the …read more #hacking #projects

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The Intel 8087 And Conditional Microcode Tests

Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this flo...

The SCSI Film Scanner Resurrection [Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about €10. This wonder device from 1997 promised to …read more #hacking #projects

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The SCSI Film Scanner Resurrection

[Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about €10. This wonder de...

A Much Faster Mac On A Microcontroller Emulating older computers on microcontrollers has been a staple of retrocomputing for many years now, with most 8-bit and some 16-bit machines available on Atmel, ARM, or ESP32 platforms. But …read more #hacking #projects

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A Much Faster Mac On A Microcontroller

Emulating older computers on microcontrollers has been a staple of retrocomputing for many years now, with most 8-bit and some 16-bit machines avai...

Reverse-Engineering the Tamagotchi IR Connection The Tamagotchi Connection is a series of Tamagotchi toys that took the original portable pet concept and mixed things up with a wireless connection, which allowed you to interact with …read more #hacking #projects

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Reverse-Engineering The Tamagotchi IR Connection

The Tamagotchi Connection is a series of Tamagotchi toys that took the original portable pet concept and mixed things up with a wireless connection...

ESP with EEG — No, Not That ESP! While EEG research might help you figure out extrasensory perception, we won’t be betting on it. However, if you want to read EEG data and use an ESP32, [Cerelog-ESP-EEG] might …read more #hacking #projects

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ESP With EEG — No, Not That ESP!

While EEG research might help you figure out extrasensory perception, we won’t be betting on it. However, if you want to read EEG data and us...

A 1990s VNA Gets An LCD A Vector Network Analyser, or VNA, is the ultimate multi-tool of RF test equipment. They can now be had in not very capable form for almost pocket money prices, but …read more #hacking #projects

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A 1990s VNA Gets An LCD

A Vector Network Analyser, or VNA, is the ultimate multi-tool of RF test equipment. They can now be had in not very capable form for almost pocket ...