32C3: So You Want to Build a Satellite?

From hackaday.com 7 years ago in Blogs

[INCO] gave this extremely informative talk on building a CubeSat. CubeSats are small satellites that piggyback on the launches of larger satellites, and although getting a 10 cm3 brick into orbit is cheap, making it functional takes an amazing attention to detail and redundant design. [INCO] somehow talks through the...

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A Little Chess with Your Timepiece

From hackaday.com 7 hours ago in Blogs

Some things remain classics, even after centuries, and chess and watches have certainly stood the test of time. [W&M Levsha] decided to combine them both in this “Chess Club” watch …read more

PCIe For Hackers: Link Anatomy

From hackaday.com 8 hours ago in Blogs

Last time, we looked over diffpairs, their basics, routing rules and the notorious tolerances of PCIe when it comes to diffpairs. Now, let’s take a look at the exact signals …read more

Who Needs Gasoline When You’ve Got Sodium?

From hackaday.com 10 hours ago in Blogs

YouTuber and serial debunker [Thunderf00t] was thinking about the use of sodium to counteract global warming. The theory is that sodium can be used as a fuel when combusted with …read more

Working with BGAs: Soldering, Reballing, and Rework

From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs

In our previous article on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route the signals coming out of a BGA package. But designing …read more

Creating a Game Boy ROM From Pictures

From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs

There are very few legal ways of obtaining ROM files for video games, and Nintendo’s lawyers are extremely keen on at least reminding you of the fact that you need …read more

Smart Occupancy Sensor Knows All

From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs

In the last few decades, building engineers and architects have made tremendous strides in improving the efficiency of various buildings and the devices that keep them safe and comfortable to …read more

Commodore 64 Reports the News

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

In the late 80s and into the 90s, [Cameron Kaiser] aka [ClassicHasClass] was an aspiring journalist, first becoming interested in the career in elementary school and then working on various …read more

Optimize Your Paper Planes With This Cardboard Wind Tunnel

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

We at Hackaday are great fans of hands-on classroom projects promoting science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects – after all, inspiring kids with technology at a young age will …read more

Homebrew Tire Inflator Pushes the Limits of PVC Construction

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Let’s just clear something up right from the start with this one: there’s literally no reason to build your own tire inflator from scratch, especially when you can buy a …read more

Vintage Tektronix Virtual Graticule

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Oscilloscopes are great for measuring the time and voltage information of a signal. Some old scopes don’t have much in the way of markings on the CRT, although eventually, we …read more