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Converting an Electric Scooter to Lithium Batteries and Disabling the Safeties

From hackaday.com 7 years ago in Blogs

There’s a bunch of different electric scooters available nowadays, including those hoverboards that keep catching fire. [TK] had an older Razor E300 that uses lead acid batteries. After getting tired of the low speeds and 12 hour charge times, [TK] decided it was time to swap for lithium batteries. The new batteries were...

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Clock Your Camera With This Shutter Speed Tester

From hackaday.com 10 hours ago in Blogs

Camera shutter speed is an essential adjustment in photography – along with the aperture, the shutter moderates the amount of light entering the camera. Older cameras (and some newer ones) …read more

Solar Powered E-bike Replaces Car Trips

From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs

E-bikes can replace car trips for some people, and adding a solar panel can make the fun last longer. [Luke] did some heavy modifications to his RadWagon to make it …read more

Fox Fined For Using EAS Tone in Football Ad

From hackaday.com 13 hours ago in Blogs

The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a simple parable that teaches children the fatal risk of raising a false alarm. To do so is to risk one’s life when raising …read more

Come Join Us for Hackaday Berlin!

From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs

It’s been far too long since we’ve had an event in Europe, and we’re going to fix that right now. Hackaday Berlin 2023 will be a day-long conference full of …read more

Count Leading Zeros for Efficient Logarithms

From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs

[Ihsan Kehribar] points out a clever trick you can use to quickly and efficiently compute the logarithm of a 32-bit integer. The technique relies on the CLZ instruction which counts …read more

All About USB-C: Manufacturer Sins

From hackaday.com 16 hours ago in Blogs

People experience a variety of problems with USB-C. I’ve asked people online about their negative experiences with USB-C, and got a wide variety of responses, both on Twitter and on …read more

MicroPython ESP32 IDE Makes Life Simpler

From hackaday.com 19 hours ago in Blogs

In theory, using MicroPython on the ESP32 is easy —  just flash an image and connect using a serial port. But that leaves a lot of things you still have …read more

Researchers Find “Inert” Components in Batteries Lead to Cell Self-Discharge

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

When it comes to portable power, lithium-ion batteries are where it’s at. Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of work being done to better understand how to maximize battery life and usable …read more

Custom Enclosure for 3D Printer

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Having an enclosure around an FDM 3D printer is generally a good idea, even when printing only with PLA, as it keeps the noise in, and the heat (and smell, …read more

SDR Scanner Listens to Everything

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

In the old days, scanners would listen to a bunch of channels in a round-robin fashion. If a signal breaks the squelch, the scanner stops and scanning continues scanning after …read more

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