Hackaday Links: December 26, 2021

From hackaday.com 1 year ago in Blogs

At the time of this writing, the James Webb Space Telescope was perched upon its ride to space, ready for its much-delayed launch from the ESA spaceport in French Guiana. …read more

Articles from Hackaday

Recreating the ZX Spectrum Unboxing Experience By Manufacturing a New Boxed One

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

Why scour the internet for a rare-as-hen’s-teeth new in box ZX Spectrum computer when you can instead order up some parts, assemble a basically all new ZX Spectrum along with …read more

IBIS Models Explained

From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs

If you’ve worked with circuit simulation, you may have run into IBIS models. The acronym is input/output buffer information, and while you can do a lot without having to deal …read more

Loudmouth DJI Drones Tell Everyone Where You Are

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Back when commercial quadcopters started appearing in the news on the regular, public safety was a talking point. How, for example, do we keep them away from airports? Well, large …read more

Classic 1960s Flip Clock Gets NTP Makeover

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Many of the clocks we feature here on Hackaday are entirely built from scratch, or perhaps reuse an unusual display type. But sometimes, an old clock is just perfect as …read more

Is Your USB-C Dock Out To Hack You?

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

In today’s installment of Betteridge’s law enforcement, here’s an evil USB-C dock proof-of-concept by [Lachlan Davidson] from [Aura Division]. We’ve seen malicious USB devices aplenty, from cables and chargers to …read more

Recreating one of History’s Best Known Spy Gadgets

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

[Machining and Microwaves] got an interesting request. The BBC asked him to duplicate the Great Seal Bug — the device the Russians used to listen covertly to the US ambassador …read more

Single Flex PCB Folds into a Four-Wheel Rover, Complete with Motors

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

You’ve got to hand it to [Carl Bugeja] — he comes up with some of the most interesting electromechanical designs we’ve seen. His latest project is right up there, too: …read more

Inside Digital Image Chips

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Have you ever thought how amazing it is that every bit of DRAM in your computer requires a teeny tiny capacitor? A 16 GB DRAM has 128 billion little capacitors, …read more

How Much Programming Can ChatGPT Really Do?

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

By now we’ve all seen articles where the entire copy has been written by ChatGPT. It’s essentially a trope of its own at this point, so we will start out …read more

Gordon Moore, 1929 — 2023

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

The news emerged yesterday that Gordon Moore, semiconductor pioneer, one of the founders of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, and the originator of the famous Moore’s Law, has died. His …read more