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[l] at 4/29/25 11:00pm
There 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

[Category: clock hacks, clock, design, display, error handling, ESP-01, weather, wifi]

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[l] at 4/29/25 8:00pm
Like 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

[Category: Artificial Intelligence, green hacks, artificial intelligence, automated plant care, automatic plant watering, soil moisture sensor]

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[l] at 4/29/25 5:00pm
A 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

[Category: Microcontrollers, motor speed, PIO, quadrature encoder, rp2040]

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[l] at 4/29/25 2:00pm
On 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

[Category: Retrocomputing, analog, audio, c64, chiptune, commodore 64, filter, video]

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[l] at 4/29/25 12:30pm
Its 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

[Category: Space, cosmos-482, spacecraft, Venera]

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[l] at 4/29/25 12:30pm
Its 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

[Category: Space, cosmos-482, spacecraft, Venera]

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[l] at 4/29/25 11:00am
If 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

[Category: Featured, History, Phone Hacks, picture phone, radio electronics, SSTV]

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[l] at 4/29/25 9:30am
Continuous 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

[Category: chemistry hacks, Medical Hacks, Teardown, cgm, diabetes, diabetics, glucose, monitor]

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[l] at 4/29/25 8:00am
Dont 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

[Category: Hackaday Columns, Peripherals Hacks, aluminium keyboard, AR-60%, keyboard gun, Malling-Hansen Takygraph, protractor, protractor keyboard, research battlestation, Takygraf, Takygraph, the Cleaver keyboard]

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[l] at 4/29/25 5:00am
As 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

[Category: green hacks, Transportation Hacks, hydrogen train, hydrogen transport]

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[l] at 4/29/25 2:00am
Are 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

[Category: Software Hacks, Virtual Reality, interface, MR, text entry, vr, XR]

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[l] at 4/28/25 11:00pm
Modern 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

[Category: Musical Hacks, diy midi, electronic music, midi loop, Pi Pico W, Pico-W]

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[l] at 4/28/25 8:00pm
If 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

[Category: Misc Hacks, calculus, math, radian frequency, Reactance]

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[l] at 4/28/25 5:00pm
Roughly 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

[Category: handhelds hacks, OLED SSD1306, SAMD21, T9, tinygo]

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[l] at 4/28/25 2:00pm
The 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

[Category: Microcontrollers, ESP32, tester]

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[l] at 4/28/25 12:30pm
Recycling 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

[Category: 3d Printer hacks, color matching, color mixing, colored 3d printer filament, filament extruder]

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[l] at 4/28/25 11:02am
When 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

[Category: cnc hacks, cons, Hackaday Columns, 2024 Hackaday Supercon, 3d printer, g-code, tool paths]

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[l] at 4/28/25 9:30am
If 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

[Category: High Voltage, Misc Hacks, flyback, high voltage, intensifying screen, magnetron, x-ray]

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[l] at 4/28/25 8:00am
Last 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

[Category: Current Events, Featured, Space, extraterrestrial life, james webb space telescope, K2-18b, SETI]

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[l] at 4/28/25 5:00am
Its 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

[Category: computer hacks, gyroscope, VideoCard]

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[l] at 4/28/25 2:00am
Are 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

[Category: Musical Hacks, 3.5-mm, AS5600, encoder, eurorack, jack, magnetic, patch, plug, synthesizer, TRS]

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