The Art of Vacuum Tube Fabrication
Vacuum tubes fueled a technological revolution. They made the amplification of signals a reality for transatlantic telephone cables (and transcontinental ones too), they performed logic for …
Cybersecurity and Insurance | Hackaday
Insurance is a funny business. Life insurance, for example, is essentially betting someone you will die before your time. With the recent focus on companies getting …
Ion Powered Airplane: Not Coming to an Airport Near You
Not that we don’t love Star Trek, but the writers could never decide if ion propulsion was super high tech (Spock’s Brain) or something they used …
Take a Mini Lathe for a Spin
This Old Tony is no stranger to quality tools, but he started on a mini lathe. Nostalgia does not stop him from broadcasting his usual brand …
Finding Bugs in Bluetooth | Hackaday
Jiska Classen and Dennis Mantz created a tool called Internal Blue that aims to be a Swiss-army knife for playing around with Bluetooth at a lower …
RFID Doing More than ID
RFID is a workhorse in industrial, commercial, and consumer markets. Passive tags, like work badges and key fobs, need a base station but not the tags. …
Pushbutton → Push Notification | Hackaday
How many mundane devices upgrade to IoT because they let you monitor a single data point or a variable? That little nudge over the communication precipice …
The Very Slow Movie Player Does it With E-Ink
Most displays are looking to play things faster. We’ve got movies at 60 frames per second, and gaming displays that run at 144 fps. But what …
Starlite: Super Material That Protects Hands from Pesky Blowtorches
A super-material that’s non-toxic, highly flame resistant, and a good enough insulator, you can literally hold fire in your hand? Our interest was definitely caught by …
This Raspberry Pi Is A Stereo Camera And So Much More
Over the years we have featured a huge array of projects featuring the Raspberry Pi, but among them there is something that has been missing in …