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at 4/29/25 11:00pmThere are a lot of distractions in daily life, especially with all the different forms of technology and their accompanying algorithms vying for our attention in the modern world. [mar1ash] read more- — Comparing ‘AI’ for Basic Plant Care With Human Brown Thumbs
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at 4/29/25 8:00pmLike so many of us, [Liam] has a big problem. Whether its the curse of Brown Thumbs or something else, those darn houseplants just keep dying despite guides always telling read more - — Read Motor Speed Better By Making The RP2040 PIO Do It
- at 4/29/25 5:00pmA quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, effective, and inexpensive devices. But [Paulo Marques] observed that read more
- — Crossing Commodore Signal Cables on Purpose
- at 4/29/25 2:00pmOn a Commodore 64, the computer is normally connected to a monitor with one composite video cable and to an audio device with a second, identical (although uniquely colored) cable. read more
- — There’s A Venusian Spacecraft Coming Our Way
- at 4/29/25 12:30pmIts not unusual for redundant satellites, rocket stages, or other spacecraft to re-enter the earths atmosphere. Usually they pass unnoticed or generate a spectacular light show, and very rarely a read more
- — There’s An Venusian Spacecraft Coming Our Way
- at 4/29/25 12:30pmIts not unusual for redundant satellites, rocket stages, or other spacecraft to re-enter the earths atmosphere. Usually they pass unnoticed or generate a spectacular light show, and very rarely a read more
- — The DIY 1982 Picture Phone
- at 4/29/25 11:00amIf youve only been around for the Internet age, you may not realize that Hackaday is the successor of electronics magazines. In their heyday, magazines like Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics, read more
- — Peeking at Poking Health Tech: the G7 and the Libre 3
- at 4/29/25 9:30amContinuous glucose meters (CGMs) arent just widgets for the wellness crowd. For many, CGMs are real-time feedback machines for the body, offering glucose trendlines that help people rethink how they read more
- — Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the Protractor Keyboard
- at 4/29/25 8:00amDont you love it when the title track is the first one on the album? I had to single out this adjustable keyboard called the Protractor, because look at it! read more
- — Hydrogen Trains: Not The Success Germany Hoped They Would Be
- at 4/29/25 5:00amAs transport infrastructure in Europe moves toward a zero-carbon future, there remain a number of railway lines which have not been electrified. The question of replacing their diesel traction with read more
- — Weird And Wonderful VR/MR Text Entry Methods, All In One Place
- at 4/29/25 2:00amAre you a developer or experimenter pondering options for text entry in virtual or mixed reality? If thats the case (or youre merely curious) then heres the resource you need: read more
- — Pi Pico Throws Us for a (MIDI) Loop
- at 4/28/25 11:00pmModern micro-controllers are absolute marvels, but it isnt too many projects use one and nothing else. For an example of such simplicity, take a look at [oyama]s Pi Pico MIDI read more
- — Deriving the Reactance Formulas
- at 4/28/25 8:00pmIf youve dealt with reactance, you surely know the two equations for computing inductive and capacitive reactance. But unless youve really dug into it, you may only know the formula read more
- — EclairM0, the pocket notepad
- at 4/28/25 5:00pmRoughly the size of a Tic Tac container, this project packs a punch in a compact package. [Matt] sent in this beautifully documented pocket device that brings back great memories read more
- — Tinycorder Isn’t Quite a Tricorder, But…
- at 4/28/25 2:00pmThe Star Trek tricorder was a good example of a McGuffin. It did anything needed to support the plot or, in some cases, couldnt do things also in support of read more
- — Paint Mixing Theory for Custom Filament Colors
- at 4/28/25 12:30pmRecycling 3D filament is a great idea in theory, and we come across homemade filament extruders with some regularity, but they do have some major downsides when it comes to read more
- — Supercon 2024: Sketching With Machines
- at 4/28/25 11:02amWhen it comes to our machines, we generally have very prescribed and ordered ways of working with them. We know how to tune our CNC mill for the minimum chatter read more
- — X-Rays From an Overdriven Magnetron
- at 4/28/25 9:30amIf you say that youre nuking something, pretty much everyone will know that you mean youre heating something in the microwave. Its technically incorrect, of course, as the magnetron inside read more
- — Life on K2-18b? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up Just Yet
- at 4/28/25 8:00amLast week, the mainstream news was filled with headlines about K2-18b an exoplanet some 124 light-years away from Earth that 98% of the population had never even heard about. read more
- — ASUS GPU Uses Gyroscope to Warn for Sagging Cards
- at 4/28/25 5:00amIts not really an understatement to say that over the years videocards (GPUs) much like CPU coolers have become rather chonky. Unfortunately, the PCIe slots they plug into read more
- — Look! It’s a Knob! It’s a Jack! It’s Euroknob!
- at 4/28/25 2:00amAre your Eurorack modules too crowded? Sick of your patch cables making it hard to twiddle your knobs? Then you might be very interested in the new Euroknob, the knob read more
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