Minimal Blinky Project Makes The Chip The Circuit Board
We’ve got a thing for projects that have no real practical value but instead seek to answer a simple yet fundamental question: I wonder if I can do that? This dead-bug style 555 blinky light is one of...
View ArticleHelp For High-Frequency Hobbyists
Dead-bug circuit building is not a pretty affair, but hey, function over form. We usually make them because we don’t have a copper circuit board available or the duty of making one at home is not worth...
View ArticleDead Bug Arduino Is Lively And Shield-Compatible
Microcontroller demo boards such as the Arduino UNO are ubiquitous on Hackaday as the brains of many a project which inevitably does something impressive or unusual. Sometime someone builds a...
View ArticleDIY Clapper Lets You Pick Your Components
One thing that always means the end of the year is close is the reappearance of TV ads for “The Clapper.” After all, who needs home automation when you can clap on and clap off? While we’re partial to...
View ArticleCircuit Sculpture Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, November 6 at noon Pacific for the Circuit Sculpture Hack Chat with Mohit Bhoite! For all the effort engineers put into electronic design, very few people ever get to appreciate...
View ArticleThe Best-Sounding Walnut You’ll Hear Today
Do you ever find yourself eating walnuts and think, this would make a great enclosure for something like a Bluetooth speaker? That seems to be exactly what happened to [Penguin DIY]. In the mesmerizing...
View ArticleMatchbox Transceiver Pushes the Spy Radio Concept to Its Limits
The Altoids tin has long been the enclosure of choice for those seeking to show off their miniaturization chops. This is especially true for amateur radio homebrewers — you really have to know what...
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