Hackaday (unofficial) July 7, 2023 5:00am This Block of Rubber Can Count To Ten #science #counter #flexure #mechanical #metamaterial #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 This Block Of Rubber Can Count To Ten Complex behaviors can arise from simple mechanics, and that’s demonstrated by a block of rubber that acts as a counter. The block contains beams, and by controlling how the block is compresse…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 9, 2023 3:00am Op-Amp Challenge: A Logic-Free BCD #contests #analog #bcd #comparator #converter #counter #lm324 #logic #opampchallenge #widlar #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Op-Amp Challenge: A Logic-Free BCD Of digital electronics, a wise man once said that “Every idiot can count to one.” Truer words have rarely been spoken, because at the end of the day, every digital circuit is really jus…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 25, 2023 12:00am Automatic Coin Sorter Brings Order to Your Coin Jar #mischacks #arduino #bowlfeeder #cash #coins #counter #euro #sorter #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Automatic Coin Sorter Brings Order To Your Coin Jar Few things hold as much promise as the old coin jar. Unfortunately, what’s generally promised is tedium, as one faces the prospect of manually sorting, counting, and rolling the accumulated c…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 15, 2022 3:00am To Turn an ATtiny817 into a 150MHz Counter, First Throw Out the Spec Sheet #attinyhacks #atmel #attiny817 #avr #counter #frequencycounter #prescaler #tcd #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 To Turn An ATtiny817 Into A 150MHz Counter, First Throw Out The Spec Sheet One generally reads a data sheet in one of two ways. The first is to take every spec at face value, figuring that the engineers have taken everything into account and presented each number as the a…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 26, 2022 3:00am Empty Spools Make Useful Tools, Like Counters #greenhacks #mischacks #3dprinterfilamentspool #counter #smoothrod #tpu #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Empty Spools Make Useful Tools, Like Counters What’s the deal with getting things done? There’s a Seinfeld anecdote that boils down to this: get a calendar, do a thing, and make a big X on each day that you do the thing. Pretty soo…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 20, 2022 12:00am Rŏ̽ta: Counting, With Style #mischacks #counter #dial #highvoltage #nixie #rotary #stopwatch #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2
Hackaday (unofficial) December 15, 2021 5:00pm A Nixie Clock, the Hard Way #clockhacks #parts #clock #counter #electroniccounter #hewlettpackard #hp #nixie #retro #signalgenerator #vintage #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Nixie Clock, The Hard Way Notice: no vintage Hewlett Packard test equipment was harmed in the making of this overly complicated Nixie clock. In fact, if anything, the HP 5245L electronic counter came out better off than it …
Hackaday (unofficial) August 11, 2021 6:00am Homebrew ROM Reader Saves Data from a Vintage Minicomputer #retrocomputing #74ls161 #arduino #backup #counter #minicomputer #nano #rom #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Homebrew ROM Reader Saves Data From A Vintage Minicomputer Have you ever heard of a Centurion minicomputer? If not, don’t feel bad — we hadn’t either, until [David Lovett] stumbled upon a semi-complete version of the 1980-ish mini in all …