Categoria: Hackaday (https://hackaday.com/)

Laptop Brick is Brought Back from the Brink
We’ve all been there. [Kasyan TV] had a universal adapter for a used laptop, and though it worked for a…

Upgrading An Old Espresso Machine
The Francis! Francis! X1 espresso machine in its assembled state. (Credit: Samuel Leeuwenburg) Recently, [Samuel Leeuwenburg] got his paws on…

LED Probe: A Smart, Simple Solution for Testing LEDs
If you’ve worked on a project with small LEDs, you know the frustration of determining their polarity. This ingenious LED…

The Switch 2 Pro Controller: Prepare for Glue and Fragile Parts
The Switch 2 Pro controller’s battery is technically removable, if you can get to it. (Credit: VK’s Channel, YouTube) For…

Make Magical-Looking Furniture With Kerf Bend Wizard
The intersection between “woodworkers” and “programmers” is not a densely populated part of the Venn diagram, but [Michael Schiebler] is…

How a DIY Chicken Coop Door Opener Went From Simple to Complex
How hard could it be to make a chicken coop door that can be configured to open and close automatically…

Adapting an Old Rotary Dial for Digital Applications
Today in old school nostalgia our tipster [Clint Jay] wrote in to let us know about this rotary dial. If…

Attack Of The Beepy Clones
In the Blackberry-keyboard-based project lineage story last week, I covered how a series of open-source projects turned into Beepy, a…

Taking A One Handed Keyboard To The Next Level
When a wrist mounted keyboard floated past in the Hackaday feed, a mental image surfaced, perhaps something like a Blackberry…

Cassette Data Storage from the 1970s
When home computers first appeared, disk drives were an expensive rarity. Consumers weren’t likely to be interested in punch cards…