Dial Into the Internet Like It’s 1999

From hackaday.com 3 months ago in Blogs

Restoring classic hardware of any sort is a great hobby to have, whether it’s restoring vintage cars, tools, or even antique Apple or Commodore computers. Understanding older equipment can help …read more

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Lawn Mower Carburetor Improves Mileage on Old Sedan

From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs

Before the Ford marketing department started slapping Maverick badges on pickup trucks, the name had been attached to compact cars from the 70s instead. These were cheap even by Ford …read more

3D Printing Hack Leverages Vase Mode Structurally

From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs

Conceptually, FDM 3D printing is quite a simple process: you define a set of volumes in 3D space, then the slicing software takes a cut through the model at ever-increasing …read more

Light Whiskers from Soap Bubbles Is Real Science

From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs

You might think that anything to do with a soap bubble is for kids. But it turns out that observing light scattering through a soap bubble produces unexpected results that …read more

Hackaday Links: May 15, 2022

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

It may be blurry and blotchy, but it’s ours. The first images of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy were revealed this week, and …read more

Computer Thing Might be Garbage

From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs

[Tech Time Traveller] has a lot of voices in his head this week, and most of them are worried about his wife’s reaction to him buying other people’s garbage. We …read more

Vicious Little Desktop Shredder Pulverizes Plastic Waste

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

We’ve all likely seen video of the enormous industrial shredders that eat engine blocks for lunch and spit out a stream of fine metal chips. The raw power of these …read more

E-Paper Clock Displays Things In A Battery-Friendly Manner

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Clock builds are a hacker staple, and many overflow with power-thirsty LEDs and network features. This build from [mattwach] takes quite the opposite approach, sipping away at its batteries thanks …read more

Upcycling a Flat Bed Scanner

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

[Piffpaffpoltrie] had a 20-year-old Acer flatbed scanner that they just couldn’t justify keeping. But it does seem a shame to throw away a working piece of gear. Instead, the old …read more

The Explosive Art of Detonographs

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The visual arts are a broad field, encompassing everything from the chiselling of marble sculptures to the creation of delicate landscapes in charcoal on paper. However, [Evelyn Rosenberg] has experimented …read more

Running ARM Chips on Algae Power

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

What’s the size of an AA battery and can run an ARM Cortex M0+ for six months? Well… probably an AA battery, but obviously, that wouldn’t be worth mentioning. But …read more