From hackaday.com
A Brief History Of Perpetual Motion
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Conservation of energy isn’t just a good idea: It is the law. In particular, it is the first law of thermodynamics. But, apparently, a lot of people don’t really get that because histor…
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23h ago
From hackaday.com
Meccano-based Hellschreiber Machine
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[ZXGuesser] has pulled off a true feat of Meccano engineering: building a Meccano Hellschreiber machine. The design is a close replica of the original Siemens Feld-Hell machine as documented here. …
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5h ago
From hackaday.com
FreeCAD Foray: Shells For All Our PCBs
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Are you the kind of hacker who tries to pick up FreeCAD, but doesn’t want to go through a tutorial and instead pokes around the interface, trying to transfer the skills from a CAD suite you&#…
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20h ago
From hackaday.com
Casting Concrete With A 3D-Printed Mould
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We’re accustomed to covering the use of 3D printing in casting, usually as a lost-PLA former in metal casting. That’s not the only use of the technique though, and perhaps one of the si…
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19h ago
From hackaday.com
Split A USB-C PD Port Into Three Port-ions
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There’s no shortage of USB-C chargers in all sorts of configurations, but sometimes, you simply need a few more charging ports on the go, and you got a single one. Well then, check out [bluep…
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17h ago
From hackaday.com
SIMD-Accelerated Computer Vision On The ESP32-S3
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One of the fun parts of the ESP32-S3 microcontroller is that it got upgraded to the newer Cadence Xtensa LX7 processor core, which turns out to have a range of SIMD instructions that can help to si…
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11h ago
From hackaday.com
A DIY Proximity Sensor, Using Just Scrap Parts And Software
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[mircemk] shows how to create a simple non-contact proximity sensor using little more than an Arduino Nano board, and a convenient software library intended to measure the value of capacitors. The …
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12h ago
From hackaday.com
Fork! Ladybird Browser And SerenityOS To Go Separate Ways
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In the monthly Ladybird Browser update video which we’ve placed below, SerenityOS founder [Andreas Kling] announced an interesting development. The browser has been forked from the OS that ha…
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2h ago
From hackaday.com
Modeling Home Heating Systems With Circuit Simulation Software
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Electricity flow is generally invisible, silent, and not something that most humans want to touch, so understanding how charge moves around can be fairly unintuitive at first. There are plenty of a…
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22h ago
From adafruit.com
A potential asteroid impact warning device #CircuitPython #Space
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Len Popp was recently on the Adafruit Show and Tell program with this interesting project. I built a device to warn of potential Earth-threatening asteroids. It monitors NASA JPL’s Sentry web servi…
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From hackaday.com
So Much Going On In So Few Components: Dissecting A Microwave Radar Module
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In the days before integrated circuits became ubiquitous, providing advanced functionality in a single package, designers became adept at extracting the maximum use from discrete components. They&#…
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8h ago