Clearly the Best Way to Organize SMD Parts

From hackaday.com 7 years ago in Blogs

Have some plexiglas (acrylic) leftovers lying around? Well, they could be put to good use in making this SMD organizer. It comes in handy if you deal with a lot of SMD components in your work. No longer will you waste your time trying to find a 15K 1206 resistor,...

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Need To Dump A Protected STM32F0x? Use Your Pico!

From hackaday.com 9 hours ago in Blogs

Sometimes, security mechanisms can be bypassed if you just do things slightly out of the ordinary. For instance, readout protection on microcontrollers is a given nowadays, to the point where …read more

The Effect of Filament Color on Print Strength and More

From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs

What is an FDM filament coloring’s purpose but to be an aesthetic choice? As it turns out, the additives that create these changes in coloring and transparency also affect the …read more

Sundial Collection is 2D Printed

From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs

We see a lot of clocks, and many of the better ones have some 3D printed elements to them. But [Carl Sabanski] shows us his kits for making sundials for …read more

3 Ways to DIY Custom CNC Dust Covers

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

Home shop machinists know dust shields are important for keeping swarf out of expensive linear rails and ball screws. [Petteri Aimonen] demonstrates three inexpensive ways to DIY some bellows-style dust …read more

Reliving a Bitmapped Past With a Veritable Hoard of Bitmap Fonts

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

The fonts seen with old computer systems such as those from Apple and Commodore, as well as Microsoft Windows 3.1 and older, form an integral part of our interaction with …read more

MCM/70 Replica Embodies Proud Canadian Heritage

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

When a vintage computer is all but unobtanium, software emulation is often all that remains. Unless you are [Michael Gardi], who saw an opportunity to reproduce Canada’s home-grown MCM/70 microcomputer …read more

The WiC64 Brings Classic Commodores Online, Google Maps Included

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

A computing platform is never really dead unless people stop developing new software for it. By that measure, the Commodore 64 is alive and well: new games, demos, and utilities …read more

Fulcrum Foils Finger Fatigue

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

It turns out that typing all day just might be bad for your hands and fingers. Repetitive Strain Injury, RSI, was a real problem for [David Schiller], particularly when coding. …read more

Copyright Data, But do it Right

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Copyright law is a triple-edged sword. Historically, it has been used to make sure that authors and rock musicians get their due, but it’s also been extended to the breaking …read more

Experimenting with 20 Meters of Outlet Adapters

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

You may have seen some of the EEVblog dumpster dive videos, where [Dave Jones] occasionally finds perfectly good equipment that’s been tossed out. But this time, rather than a large …read more