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Heathkit Tuner Saved From Junk Pile
6+ hour, 59+ min ago (404+ words) We miss the old Heathkit. You could build equipment that rivaled or even surpassed commercial devices. The cost was usually reasonable and, even if you could get by with less, the satisfaction of usin... As you can see in the…...
vintage lawnmower – Hackaday
9+ hour, 55+ min ago (223+ words) Making A Vintage Allen Scythe Electric'Hackaday The Allen Scythe is one of those fantastic pieces of vintage agricultural machinery which would never be allowed to be manufactured today for health and safety reasons. It's a two-wheel walk-behind device with a…...
Making A Vintage Allen Scythe Electric
9+ hour, 58+ min ago (400+ words) The Allen Scythe is one of those fantastic pieces of vintage agricultural machinery which would never be allowed to be manufactured today for health and safety reasons. It's a two-wheel walk-behind de......
Reverse-Engineering A Handheld Car Tire Pressure Gauge
12+ hour, 24+ min ago (463+ words) [caption id="attachment_1073047" align="alignright" width="400"] The SDIC 8-bit MCU. (Credit: electronupdate, YouTube)[/caption] In this wonderful world of MEMS technology, sensor technology has been......
Simulating A Glowing Fireplace With An RP2040
15+ hour, 59+ min ago (499+ words) Simulating A Glowing Fireplace With An RP2040Hackaday Today, fireplaces, their cozy glow once a household staple, are mostly a thing of the past In fact, a decent amount of old fireplaces are completely blocked up! [David Capper] brings back the atmosphere…...
Burning Wood To Brew Wood To Preserve Wood : Pine Tar
16+ hour, 43+ min ago (228+ words) Before there was pressure-treated wood, before modern paints, there was pine tar. Everything from tool handles to wagons to ships were made of wood preserved with pine tar, once upon a time, and [woodbrew] wants to show you how to…...
For Such A Small Program, ZX81 1K Chess Sure Packs A Lot In
20+ hour, 28+ min ago (558+ words) The Sinclair ZX81 was hardly the most accomplished of 1980s 8-bit microcomputers, but its ultra-low-budget hardware was certainly pressed into service for some impressive work. Perhaps the most legend... The Sinclair ZX81 was hardly the most accomplished of 1980s 8-bit microcomputers, but its ultra-low-budget…...
Axios
1+ day, 56+ min ago (274+ words) This Week In Security: The Supply Chain Has Problems'Hackaday The biggest story of the week is a new massive supply chain breach, which appears to be unrelated to the previous massive supply chain breaches, this time of the Axios HTTP…...
Hackaday Podcast Episode 364: Clocks, Cameras, And Free Will
22+ hour, 59+ min ago (238+ words) This week, Hackaday's Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over assorted beverages to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous seven days or so. In the…...
Fixing An E-Waste ASUS P5A-B Socket 7 Mainboard
23+ hour, 28+ min ago (432+ words) A fun part of retro computing is saving 'e-waste' that was headed for certain destruction. These boards can have any number of defects, modifications and more that have to be remedied prior to using t......