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Square Roots 1800s Style — No, the Other 1800s
[MindYourDecisions] presents a Babylonian tablet dating back to around 1800 BC that shows that the hypotenuse of a unit square…
Experimental Drone Flies Like A Bird
Most RC planes follow a simple control scheme: elevators for pitch, rudder for yaw, and ailerons for roll. This one-to-one…
Double Your Analog Oscilloscope Fun with this Retro Beam Splitter
These days, oscilloscope hacking is all about enabling features that the manufacturer baked into the hardware but locked out in…
Hackaday Links: November 24, 2024
We received belated word this week of the passage of Ward Christensen, who died unexpectedly back in October at the…
Modular Multi-Rotor Flies Up To Two Hours
Flight time remains the Achilles’ heel of electric multi-rotor drones, with even high-end commercial units struggling to stay airborne for…
RISC CPU Lives in Excel
Last time we checked in on [Inkbox], he had made a 16-bit CPU in Excel. Impressive, but not really practical….
Flyback, Done Right
A common part used to create a high voltage is a CRT flyback transformer, having been a ubiquitous junk pile…
Close Shave for an Old Oscilloscope Saved with a Sticky Note
When you tear into an old piece of test equipment, you’re probably going to come up against some surprises. That’s…
Forget Pixel Art: Try Subpixels
[Japhy Riddle] was tired of creating pixel art. He went to subpixel art. The idea is that since each color…
3D Space Can Be Tiled With Corner-free Shapes
Tiling a space with a repeated pattern that has no gaps or overlaps (a structure known as a tessellation) is…
