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

Break Me Off a Piece of That Open Source Serial Adapter
We know, you’ve already got a USB to serial adapter. Probably several of them, in fact. But that doesn’t mean…

Open Source Multimeter Raises the Bar for DIY Tools
Whether you only dabble in electronics as a hobby or it’s your full-time job, there are few tools as indispensable…

Holiday Jukebox Gets ESP32, Home Assistant Support
If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that the only thing hardware hackers love more than a device festooned…

The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5
[Filip] got his hands on a sweet old Hammond X5 organ, but it had one crucial problem: only half of…

Keeping Track of Old Computer Manuals with the Manx Catalog
An unfortunate reality of pre-1990s computer systems is that any manuals and documentation that came with them likely only existed…

A Twenty-Segment Display, Artistically
We all know and love the humble seven-segment display, right? And if you want to make characters as well as…

Retrotechtacular: Quest for the “Big Boy” CRT Finds New Home in Mini Doc
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their Trinitron line of televisions, Sony launched the KX-45ED1. At forty three inches the…

Crawler Challenge: Building Rope-Traversing Robots
Rope-climbing robots are the stuff of engineering dreams. As kids, didn’t we all clutter our family home with constructions of…

Camera Slider Uses Repositionable Rail To Do Rotational Moves
You can buy motorized camera sliders off-the-shelf, but they’re pretty costly. Alternatively, you can make one yourself, and it’s not…

Silicone Tubing as Springs for Capacitive Touch Buttons
Capacitive touch buttons are a great way to turn just about any (non-conductive) surface into a button, but people generally…