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Like many of us, [Ben] has too many 3D printers. What do you do with the old ones? In his case, he converted it into a robotic camera rig. See the results, including footage from the robot, in the ...
Automotive headlights started out burning acetylene, before regular electric lightbulbs made them obsolete. In due time, halogen bulbs took over, before the industry began to explore even newer ...
Let’s say you want to build a Nixie clock. You could go out and find some tubes, source a good power supply design, start ...
If you’re hunting for a bench power supply, you’ll quickly notice options dry up above 48 V or so, and you definitely won’t ...
Brilliant Labs have been making near-eye display platforms for some time now, and they are one of the few manufacturers ...
Over on Hackaday.io our hackers [Angelo] and [Oscarv] are making a replica of the PDP-1. That is interesting in and of itself ...
Many decades ago, IBM engineers developed the typeball. This semi-spherical hunk of metal would become the heart of the ...
Data centers and the electrification of devices that previously ran on fossil fuels is driving increased demand for electricity around the world. China is addressing this with a megaproject that ...
Our hacker [glgorman] sent in their submission for the One Hertz Challenge: an analog software clock for Microsoft Windows. I ...
Australia is known for great beaches, top-tier coffee, and a laidback approach to life that really doesn’t square with all ...
Some people just want to have their cake and eat it too, but very few of us ever get to pull it off. [Erich Styger] has, ...
Modern computers generate a great deal of heat when under load, thus we cool them with fans and sometimes even water cooling ...