Apollo-era PCB Reverse Engineering to KiCad
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/apollo-era-pcb-reverse-engineering-to-kicad/
The Lancaster ASCII Keyboard Recreated
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/the-lancaster-ascii-keyboard-recreated/
Hacking Global Positioning Systems Onto 16th-Century Maps
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/hacking-global-positioning-systems-onto-16th-century-maps/
Programmable Zener is Really an IC
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/programmable-zener-is-really-an-ic/
Aftershock II: How Students Shattered 20-Year Amateur Rocket Records
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/aftershock-ii-how-students-shattered-20-year-amateur-rocket-records/
Hackaday Links: November 24, 2024
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/hackaday-links-november-24-2024/
Double Your Analog Oscilloscope Fun with this Retro Beam Splitter
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/double-your-analog-oscilloscope-fun-with-this-retro-beam-splitter/
Flyback, Done Right
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/flyback-done-right/
RISC CPU Lives in Excel
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/risc-cpu-lives-in-excel/
Modular Multi-Rotor Flies Up To Two Hours
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/modular-multi-rotor-flies-up-to-two-hours/
Hacking the Soil to Combat Desertification
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/hacking-the-soil-to-combat-desertification/
$40 Ham Antenna Works Six Bands
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/23/40-ham-antenna-works-six-bands/
RFID From First Principles and Saving a Cat
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/23/rfid-from-first-principles-and-saving-a-cat/
Forget Pixel Art: Try Subpixels
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/23/forget-pixel-art-try-subpixels/
Close Shave for an Old Oscilloscope Saved with a Sticky Note
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/23/close-shave-for-an-old-oscilloscope-saved-with-a-sticky-note/
It is hard to imagine that there was a time when having a keyboard and screen readily available was a real problem for people who wanted to experiment with computers. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/the-lancaster-ascii-keyboard-recreated/)
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What if GPS had existed in 1565? No satellites or microelectronics, sure—but let’s play along. Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/hacking-global-positioning-systems-onto-16th-century-maps/)
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[Kevin] doesn’t stock zener diodes anymore. Why? Because for everything he used to use zeners, he now uses bandgap voltage references. These look like zener diodes but have an extra …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/programmable-zener-is-really-an-ic/)
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When it comes to space exploration, we often think of billion-dollar projects—NASA’s Artemis missions, ESA’s Mars rovers, or China’s Tiangong station. Yet, a group of U.S. students at USC’s Rocket …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/aftershock-ii-how-students-shattered-20-year-amateur-rocket-records/)
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We received belated word this week of the passage of Ward Christensen, who died unexpectedly back in October at the age of 78. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/hackaday-links-november-24-2024/)
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These days, oscilloscope hacking is all about enabling features that the manufacturer baked into the hardware but locked out in the firmware. Those hacks are cool, of course, but back …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/double-your-analog-oscilloscope-fun-with-this-retro-beam-splitter/)
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A common part used to create a high voltage is a CRT flyback transformer, having been a ubiquitous junk pile component. So many attempts to use them rely on brute …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/flyback-done-right/)
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Last time we checked in on [Inkbox], he had made a 16-bit CPU in Excel. Impressive, but not really practical. Presumably, his latest project isn’t any more practical, but we …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/risc-cpu-lives-in-excel/)
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Flight time remains the Achilles’ heel of electric multi-rotor drones, with even high-end commercial units struggling to stay airborne for an hour. Enter Modovolo, a startup that’s shattered this limitation …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/modular-multi-rotor-flies-up-to-two-hours/)
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While the Sahara Desert is an important ecosystem in its own right, its human neighbors in the Sahel would like it to stop encroaching on their environment. [Andrew Millison] took …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/hacking-the-soil-to-combat-desertification/)
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[My Ham Radio Journey] wanted to see if a “common person” (in his words) could build an effective vertical ham radio antenna. If you look at the video below, the …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/23/40-ham-antenna-works-six-bands/)
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[Dale Cook] has cats, and as he readily admits, cats are jerks. We’d use stronger language than that, but either way it became a significant impediment to making progress with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/23/rfid-from-first-principles-and-saving-a-cat/)
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[Japhy Riddle] was tired of creating pixel art. He went to subpixel art. The idea is that since each color pixel is composed of three subpixels, your display is actually …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/23/forget-pixel-art-try-subpixels/)
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When you tear into an old piece of test equipment, you’re probably going to come up against some surprises. That’s especially true of high-precision gear like oscilloscopes from the time …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/23/close-shave-for-an-old-oscilloscope-saved-with-a-sticky-note/)
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Boats normally get around with propellers or water jets for propulsion. Occasionally, they use paddles. [Engineering After Hours] claims he is “changing the boat game forever” with his new 3D …read more (https://hackaday.com/2024/11/23/3d-printed-boat-uses-tank-tracks-for-amphibious-propulsion/)
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