Categoria: Hackaday (https://hackaday.com/)
Push for On, Hold for Off, AC Edition
A common theme in modern consumer electronics is having a power button that can be tapped to turn the device…
Enabling NVMe on the Raspberry Pi 500 With a Handful of Parts
With the recent teardown of the Raspberry Pi 500, there were immediately questions raised about the unpopulated M.2 pad and…
PCB Motor Holds Fast, Even After 1.6 Billion Spins
If you aren’t up to date with [Carl Bugeja]’s work with tiny brushless PCB motors, his summary video of his…
Why NASA Only Needs Pi To So Many Decimal Places
If you’re new to the world of circular math, you might be content with referring to pi as 3.14. If…
A Compass That Looks to the Stars
Although a lot of tools have been digitized and consolidated into our smartphones, from cameras, music players, calendars, alarm clocks,…
The Last Acorn BBC Computer Wasn’t a BBC Micro
For home computer users, the end of the 1980s was the era of 16-bit computers. The challenge facing manufacturers of…
Tech in Plain Sight: Table Saw Safety
If you ask around a wood shop, most people will agree that the table saw is the most dangerous tool…
Using A Smartphone As A Touchscreen For Arduino
If you want a good display and interface device for an embedded project, it’s hard to look past an old…
Emulating The Battery Controller In An Ancient Acer PDA
[Mark B] had a problem. He’d come into possession of an Acer N30 PDA, sans batteries. He couldn’t just throw…
Sony Vaio Revived: How Does One Start?
A long-term project of mine is the the Sony Vaio new mainboard project. A year ago, I used it as…
