Restarting The Grid When The Grid Is Off The Grid

From hackaday.com 2 months ago in Blogs

If you watch YouTube long enough, it seems like going “off the grid” is all the rage these days. But what if the thing that goes off the grid is the …read more

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A Disposable Dumper For ROM Chips With A Pi Pico

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

ROM dumping is vital for preserving old hardware, and we’ve seen many hacks dedicated to letting someone dump a ROM and send its contents to some hacker stuck with a …read more

Brass Hardware Makes For Pretty Potentiometer Knobs

From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs

Knobs and switches can make or break the aesthetic and tactile appeal of a project. Fine hi-fi hardware goes hard on these details, while cheap knock-off guitar pedals often go …read more

Building An All-in-One Desktop Out Of Framework Parts

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The Framework laptop prides itself on having reusable parts, and hackers all around routinely challenge the claims by building projects reusing them. Yet again, [whatthefilament] puts the Framework hardware to …read more

Build a Circuit Sculpture-Style VU Meter For Music

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

One of the coolest things any sound system can have is some kind of musical visualization. Thumping level meters that pump with the volume are a great example, and were …read more

Audio Playback Toy For DSP Adventures

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The declining costs of single-board computers has made serious computing power available for even the most trivial of tasks. It’s easy enough to slap a Raspberry Pi onto almost anything …read more

Now ChatGPT Can Make Breakfast For Me

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The world is abuzz with tales of the ChatGPT AI chatbot, and how it can do everything, except perhaps make the tea. It seems it can write code, which is …read more

Let’s Make SCPI More Helpful

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

The SCPI (Standards Command for Programmable Instruments) protocol is exceptionally popular in lab and workspace tools, letting you configure and fetch data from oscilloscopes and lab scales alike in a …read more

Cheap Kitchen Scale Learns to Speak JSON With ESP32

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Smart kitchen appliances are expensive, and more often than not, your usage data goes to whichever company operates the inevitable cloud service. Meanwhile the cheap ones contain substantially the same …read more

Copy and Paste Lithium Battery Protection

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

Lithium batteries have, nearly single-handedly, ushered in the era of the electric car, as well as battery energy storage of grid power and plenty of other technological advances not possible …read more

ChipWhisperer Adapter Helps Reverse-Engineer A Controversial Game Cartridge

From hackaday.com 2 days ago in Blogs

The ChipWhisperer has been a breakthrough in hobbyist use of power analysis and glitching attacks on embedded hardware. If you own one, you surely have seen the IDC and SMA …read more