Hackaday (unofficial) April 23, 2024 9:00pm 80s Function Generator is Both Beauty and Beast #classichacks #teardown #1980s #functiongenerator #testequipment #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 80s Function Generator Is Both Beauty And Beast You know how the saying goes — they don’t make them like this anymore. It’s arguably true of pretty much any electronic device given the way technology changes over time, though w…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 29, 2023 10:00pm Arbitrary Wave Generator For The Raspberry Pi Pico #toolhacks #functiongenerator #raspberrypipico #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Arbitrary Wave Generator For The Raspberry Pi Pico Once upon a time, if you wanted to generate some waveforms, you needed to buy an expensive off-the-shelf function generator or whip up a big pile of analog electronics. Not so today, when you can g…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 12, 2023 9:00pm Weird 555 Function Generator Uses Feedback #hardware #555 #functiongenerator #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Weird 555 Function Generator Uses Feedback There are plenty of designs out there for sawtooth and triangle function generators, many of them using the humble 555 IC. Few are readily voltage controlled, making them difficult to work with usi…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 16, 2022 12:00pm Impatience is a Virtue When Testing This Old Maritime Teleprinter #radiohacks #amtor #arduino #ccir476 #fsk #functiongenerator #modulation #navtex #sitor #solas #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Impatience Is A Virtue When Testing This Old Maritime Teleprinter [Larry Wall], inventor of Perl, once famously said that programmers have three key virtues: sloth, hubris, and impatience. It’s safe to say that these personality quirks are also present in s…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 13, 2022 12:00pm Retro Breadboard Gives Up its 1960s Secrets #repairhacks #teardown #breadboard #functiongenerator #repair #retro #reverseengineering #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Retro Breadboard Gives Up Its 1960s Secrets When we see [Ken Shirriff] reverse engineering something, it tends to be on the microscopic level. His usual forte is looking at die photos of strange and obsolete chips and figuring out how they w…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 5, 2022 7:00pm Low-Cost, Two-Channel Scriptable Waveform Generator #digitalaudiohacks #toolhacks #ad9833 #dds #functiongenerator #lowcost #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Low-Cost, Two-Channel Scriptable Waveform Generator Microcontroller addict [Debraj] decided to make his own programmable sine wave generator, and was able to put it together for under $40 USD. Other than low-cost, his list of requirements was as fol…