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Is That Cheap Multimeter as Good as a Fluke? Let’s Find Out
When [learnelectronics] talks about cheap meters, he always says, “If you are doing this for a living, get yourself a Fluke.” But he realized he’s never shown the inside of a Fluke meter, so he...
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DIY Electric Roller Bender Can Handle The Thick(er) Stuff
Every serious metal worker will end up getting themself a roller bender at some point, but if you’re as dedicated as [Meanwhile in the Garage], you might just start building the things yourself. His...
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Listen to your Feet, They Have a Lot to Tell You
[Umar Qattan] is in tune with his sole and is trying hard to listen to what it has to say. At a low level, [Umar] is building an insole with an array of force sensors in it. These sensors are affixed...
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Hackaday Links: December 22, 2019
It’s hard to believe it, but the Raspberry Pi has been on the market for only seven years now. The single-board computer has become so entrenched in the hobby electronics scene that it’s hard to...
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Slack, Now On Windows 3.1
Slack is either an online collaboration tool, or a religion, depending on who you talk to. Naturally, it’s accessible across all manner of modern platforms, from Windows and MacOS to smartphones....
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Linux Fu: WSL Tricks Blur the Windows/Linux Line
We have to admit, we have an odd fascination with WSL — the Windows subsystem for Linux. On the one hand, it gives us more options on Windows 10 for running the software we love. On the other hand, we...
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Supercon Talk: Emily Velasco Wants You to Work Weird
Emily Velasco seems to absolutely delight in the weird, and we think that is wonderful. Weird brings us together. If you can be weird with someone else, you’ll have a special bond for life. In her...
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Motorizing a Plasma Cutter on the Cheap
A hand-held plasma cutter is an excellent tool to have if you are working with sheet metal, but it’s not particularly well suited to making long or repetitive cuts. Which is why [workshop from scratch]...
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Replacing A Non-Replacable Laptop Keyboard
Spilling a drink on a laptop is a terrifying experience. If you’re lucky you’ll ruin just a keyboard, and if not, your entire machine could go up in smoke. Assuming you’ve just suffered the latter,...
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Addressable LED Strings In Your USB
WS2812Bs, or NeoPixels, or whatever else you call them brought full-color LEDs to maker projects a meter at a time in recent years. Hooked up to a microcontroller, they make creating vibrant,...
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Possible Fifth Force of Nature Found
Over the years, humans have come up with four forces that can be used to describe every single interaction in the physical world. They are gravity, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force that causes...
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Tiny Tree is a Thermometer for Christmas Fever
Tired of the usual methods for animating all those RGB LEDS for your holiday display? How about using trendiness in a non-trendy way? [8BitsAndAByte] caved in to increasing holiday madness and bought...
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Now Even Your Business Card Can Run Linux
It takes a lot of work to get a functional PCB business card that’s thin, cheap, and robust enough to be practical. If you can even blink a few LEDs on the thing and still hand them out with a straight...
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Minimalist Mate Maker Keeps You Caffeinated
Americans love their coffee. The Brits adore their tea. In South America, the number one way to get through the day is with yerba mate, a tea made from the yerba plant. It is typically shared in a...
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Team Scores Big Points with Pinball Final Project
For their final project in [Bruce Land]’s class on designing with PIC32 microcontrollers, [Sujith], [Julia] and [Andrew] wanted to do something fun. And what could be more fun than bending to the...
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Need Hackable Melodies? Here’s The TETRIS Theme and More
[Robson Couto] started to get interested in musical projects and as a side effect created downloadable code with simple notation for a good variety of themes, songs, and melodies. They are all for the...
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Honoring Chuck Peddle; Father of the 6502 and the Chips That Went with It
Chuck Peddle, the patriarch of the 6502 microprocessor, died recently. Most people don’t know the effect that he and his team of engineers had on their lives. We often take the world of microprocessor...
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Finishing FDM Prints with SLS Resin
[Thomas Sanladerer] has a filament-based 3D printer and a resin one. Can the two types of raw material combine to make something better? [Thomas] did some experiments using some magnets to suspend the...
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A Car That Runs On Homemade Chemical Reactions
The race for chemical engineering is quite literally on. Every year, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE) brings together hundreds of university students to face-off to design the...
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Open-Source Analytical Balance Pits Gravity Against Electromagnetism
As the open-source movement has brought its influence to more and more fields, we’ve seen an astonishing variety of things once only available at significant expense become accessible to anyone with...
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