Driverless Buses Take To The Road In Scotland

Scotland! It’s the land of tartans, haggis, and surprisingly-warm kilts. It’s also ground zero for the first trial of full-sized driverless buses in the United Kingdom. It’s not just automakers …read more

All About USB-C: Pinecil Soldering Iron

As many people have pointed out, what matters with USB-C isn’t just the standard, it’s the implementations. After all, it’s the implementations that we actually have to deal with, and …read more

Retro Gadgets: The CB Cell Phone

There was a time when one of the perks of having a ham radio in your car (or on your belt) was you could make phone calls using a “phone …read more

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Backing Up

Backing up. It’s such a simple thing on paper – making a copy of important files and putting them in a safe place. In reality, for many of us, it’s …read more

Hackaday Links: January 29, 2023

We’ve been told for ages that “the robots are coming for our jobs!” It’s true that we’ve seen robots capable of everything from burger flipping to bricklaying being demonstrated, and …read more

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Cheap Kitchen Scale Learns To Speak JSON With ESP32

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By Jenny List | February 2, 2023

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

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By Bryan Cockfield | February 2, 2023

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

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By Arya Voronova | February 1, 2023

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
Not A Pot, Not An Encoder: Exploring Synchros For Rotational Sensing

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By Dan Maloney | February 1, 2023

We’re all familiar with getting feedback from a rotating shaft, for which we usually employ a potentiometer or encoder. But there’s another device that, while less well-known, has some advantages …read more
Want Better 0402 Reflow? Consider These Footprints!

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By Arya Voronova | February 1, 2023

Assembling with a stencil is just that much more convenient – it’s a huge timesaver, and your components no longer need to be individually touched with a soldering iron for …read more
Comparing Cheap Capacitative Soil Moisture Sensors With Commercial Sensors

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By Maya Posch | February 1, 2023

When your residence has soil moisture sensors embedded that were dictated by your friendly neighborhood HoA, you may start asking questions about the system used. That’s what [Modest Maker] did …read more
Electron Microscope Conversion Hack

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By Al Williams | February 1, 2023

Some of you probably know this already, but there’s actually more than one kind of electron microscope. In electronics work, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is the most common. You …read more

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