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

Some Useful Notes On The 6805-EC10 Addressable RGB LED
LEDs are getting smaller and smaller, and the newest generations of indexable RGB LEDs are even fiddlier to use than…

Pixel Watch 3’s Loss of Pulse Detection: the Algorithms That Tell Someone is Dying
More and more of the ‘smart’ gadgets like watches and phones that we carry around with us these days come…

A Magic Eye Tube Does All The Work In This Kit
We’re used to low cost parts and a diversity of electronic functions to choose from in our projects, to the…

How To Use LLMs For Programming Tasks
[Simon Willison] has put together a list of how, exactly, one goes about using a large language models (LLM) to…

Lies, Damned Lies, And IGBT Datasheets
We have all seen optimistic claims for electronic products which fail to match the reality, and [Electronic Wizard] is following…

Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Batwing Typewriter
[Alex] of YouTube channel [EastMakes] wrote into tell me about his fantastic QWERTY ‘hexpansion’ board for the 2024 EMF Tildagon…

A Deep Dive Into Canon Autofocus Lenses
Credit: Markus Kohlpaintner Although taken for granted these days, autofocus (AF) used to be a premium feature on film- and…

Solar-Powered E-Reader With No Buttons
Modern e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle are incredible pieces of engineering, but that doesn’t mean there’s no room for…

What’s Wrong With This Antenna Tuner?
[Tech Minds] built one of those cheap automatic antenna tuners you see everywhere — this one scaled up to 350…

The ESP32 Bluetooth Backdoor That Wasn’t
Recently there was a panicked scrambling after the announcement by [Tarlogic] of a ‘backdoor’ found in Espressif’s popular ESP32 MCUs….