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2025 One Hertz Challenge: Using Industrial Relays To Make A Flasher

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By Lewin Day | August 10, 2025

These days, if you want to flash some LEDs, you’d probably grab a microcontroller. Maybe you’d go a little more old-school, and grab a 555. However, [Jacob] is even more …read more
Coping With Disappearing Capacitance In A Buck Converter

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By Aaron Beckendorf | August 10, 2025

Designing a circuit is a lot easier on paper, where components have well-defined values, or lacking that, at least well-defined tolerances. Unfortunately, even keeping percentage tolerances in mind isn’t always …read more
A Solar-Only, Battery-Free Device That Harvests Energy From A BPW34 Photodiode

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By John Elliot V | August 10, 2025

Normally when you think solar projects, you think of big photovoltaic cells. But a photodiode is just an inefficient, and usually much smaller, PV cell. Since [Pocket Concepts]’s Solar_nRF has …read more
Building A 7-Segment Shadow Clock

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By Lewin Day | August 10, 2025

There are plenty of conventional timepieces out there in the world; we’ve also featured a great many that are aesthetically beautiful while being unreadably esoteric. This neat “shadow clock” from …read more
Cheap Thermal Camera Fits The Bill

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By Al Williams | August 10, 2025

If you want to save a little money on a thermal camera, or if you just enjoy making your own, you should have a look at [Evan Yu’s] GitHub repository, …read more
SparcStation 1+ Finally Gets Attention

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By Al Williams | August 9, 2025

We can’t throw stones. [Leaded Solder] picked up a SparcStation 1+ in 2018 and found it only produced illegal instruction errors. We’re sure he’s like us and meant to get …read more
Hacking Printed Circuit Board To Create Casing And Instrument Panels

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By John Elliot V | August 9, 2025

Over on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself but the particularly remarkable feature of this project …read more

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