Keynote Video: Dr. Keith Thorne Explains the Extreme Engineering of the LIGO Hardware

From hackaday.com 1 year ago in Blogs

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a huge installation measured in kilometers that is listening for wrinkles in space-time. Pulling this off is a true story of hardware and …read more

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The BLE Datalogging Scale Of A Thousand Uses

From hackaday.com 9 hours ago in Blogs

Whether you’re making coffee or beer or complex chemicals, weighing your ingredients carefully and tracking them is key to getting good results. [Tech Dregs] decided to build a logging …read more

Stripped Clock Wheel Gets a New Set of Teeth, the Hard Way

From hackaday.com 12 hours ago in Blogs

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from [Chris] at Clickspring, it’s that a clockmaker will stop at nothing to make a clock not only work perfectly, but look good doing …read more

MOSFET Heater Is Its Own Thermostat

From hackaday.com 13 hours ago in Blogs

While we might all be quick to grab a microcontroller and an appropriate sensor to solve some problem, gather data about a system, or control another piece of technology, there …read more

Linux Fu: Gum Up Your Script

From hackaday.com 15 hours ago in Blogs

We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us …read more

Two-Tube Spy Transmitter Fits in the Palm of Your Hand

From hackaday.com 16 hours ago in Blogs

It’s been a long time since vacuum tubes were cutting-edge technology, but that doesn’t mean they don’t show up around here once in a while. And when they do, we …read more

Weird Electric Jet Skis Are Hitting The Waves

From hackaday.com 18 hours ago in Blogs

When it comes to reducing emissions from human sources, we’re at the point now where we need to take a broad-based approach. It’s not enough to simply make our cars …read more

Robot 3D Prints Giant Metal Parts with Induction Heat

From hackaday.com 21 hours ago in Blogs

While our desktop machines are largely limited to various types of plastic, 3D printing in other materials offers unique benefits. For example, printing with concrete makes it possible to quickly …read more

Kino Wheels Gives You a Hand Learning Camera Operation

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Have you ever watched a movie or a video and really noticed the quality of the camera work? If you have, chances are the camera operator wasn’t very skilled, since …read more

History of the SPARC CPU Architecture

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

[RetroBytes] nicely presents the curious history of the SPARC processor architecture. SPARC, short for Scalable Processor Architecture, defined some of the most commercially successful RISC processors during the 1980s and …read more

A New Gaming Shell For a Mouse

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

For some gamers, having a light fast polling mouse is key. [Ali] of [Optimum Tech] loved his 23-gram mouse but disliked the cord. Not seeing any options for a comparable …read more