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Break Me Off a Piece of That Open Source Serial Adapter
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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…

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Open Source Multimeter Raises the Bar for DIY Tools
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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…

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Holiday Jukebox Gets ESP32, Home Assistant Support
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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…

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The Mystery of the Messed-Up Hammond X5
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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…

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Keeping Track of Old Computer Manuals with the Manx Catalog
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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…

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A Twenty-Segment Display, Artistically
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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…

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Retrotechtacular: Quest for the “Big Boy” CRT Finds New Home in Mini Doc
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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…

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Crawler Challenge: Building Rope-Traversing Robots
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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…

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Camera Slider Uses Repositionable Rail To Do Rotational Moves
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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…

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Silicone Tubing as Springs for Capacitive Touch Buttons
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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…

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