Hackaday (unofficial) June 11, 2023 9:00am Siphoning Energy From Power Lines #highvoltage #coupling #electricity #inductor #lccircuit #led #magneticfield #power #stealing #tunedcircuit #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Siphoning Energy From Power Lines The discovery and implementation of alternating current revolutionized the entire world little more than a century ago. Without it, we’d all have inefficient, small neighborhood power plants …
Hackaday (unofficial) May 2, 2023 12:00pm Modern Components Enable Cheap and Compact Nixie Driver Circuit #hardware #highvoltage #ch32v003 #in12b #nixiedriver #nixietubes #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Modern Components Enable Cheap And Compact Nixie Driver Circuit Nixie tubes can add some retro flair to any project, but they can also complicate your electronics quite a bit: after all, you need to generate a voltage high enough to ignite the tube and then swi…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 1, 2023 3:00am High Voltage Power Supply From USB #highvoltage #300v #dc #electrophoresis #electrowetting #isolation #measurement #powersupply #safety #usb #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 High Voltage Power Supply From USB Those who work in different spaces may have different definitions of the term “high voltage”. For someone working on the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi it might be as little as 5 volts, so…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 30, 2023 8:00pm Upgraded Plasma Thruster is Smaller, More Powerful #highvoltage #airflow #electrodes #ionthruster #plasmachannel #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Upgraded Plasma Thruster Is Smaller, More Powerful When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel, the resulting video picked up millions of views and got hobbyists and professionals alike talking. While ionic lifters …
Hackaday (unofficial) February 26, 2023 1:00am New Possibilities from Fading Lighting Technology #highvoltage #cfl #coil #compactfluorescent #driver #fluorescent #heater #induction #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 New Possibilities From Fading Lighting Technology Like the incandescent bulb before it, the compact fluorescent (CFL) bulb is rapidly fading into obscurity as there are fewer and fewer reasons to use them over their LED successors. But there are p…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 11, 2023 10:00pm Playing Music on a Custom Flyback Transformer #highvoltage #bluetooth #coilwinding #flybacktransformer #plasmachannel #plasmaspeaker #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Playing Music On A Custom Flyback Transformer We’ve seen a number of people create plasma speakers over the years here at Hackaday, so at first blush, the latest Plasma Channel video from [Jay Bowles] might seem like more of the same. Ev…
Hackaday (unofficial) February 8, 2023 10:00pm Building a Plasma Piano Ain’t Easy #musicalhacks #arc #highvoltage #hv #plasma #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Building A Plasma Piano Ain’t Easy Electronic arcs can be made to “sing” if you simply modulate them on and off at audible frequencies. We’ve seen it done with single Tesla coils, and even small Tesla choirs, but […
Hackaday (unofficial) January 19, 2023 8:00pm Domesticating Plasma with a Gorgeous Live Edge Table #highvoltage #homehacks #epoxy #furniture #neontube #rivertable #workbench #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Domesticating Plasma With A Gorgeous Live Edge Table If you’ve been reading Hackaday for any length of time, you’ll know we don’t often cover woodworking projects here. It’s not because we aren’t impressed with the skill…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 22, 2022 5:00pm Another Magnetron Teardown #highvoltage #teardown #magnetron #microwave #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Another Magnetron Teardown [Electronoobs] has a healthy respect for the voltages and ceramics inside a microwave oven. But he still found the courage to tear one apart and show us the insides and characterize some of the com…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 7, 2022 7:00am Restarting The Grid When The Grid Is Off The Grid #highvoltage #alternator #exciter #gridsimulator #inductionmotor #oscilloscope #powergrid #substation #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Restarting The Grid When The Grid Is Off The Grid If you watch YouTube long enough, it seems like going “off the grid” is all the rage these days. But what if the thing that goes off the grid is the grid itself? In the video below the …
Hackaday (unofficial) October 12, 2022 9:00pm Enjoy the Beauty of Corona Discharge with This Kirlian Photography Setup #mischacks #corona #dielectric #discharge #flyback #highvoltage #hv #kirlian #teslacoil #zvs #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Enjoy The Beauty Of Corona Discharge With This Kirlian Photography Setup In our age of pervasive digital media, “pics or it didn’t happen” is a common enough cry that most of us will gladly snap a picture of pretty near anything to post online. So if y…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 6, 2022 9:00am Electric Guitar Shocks You for Missing a Note #games #highvoltage #electricshock #guitar #guitarhero #rhythmgame #rocksmith #shock #stungun #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Electric Guitar Shocks You For Missing A Note Rocksmith is a popular video game that works like Guitar Hero, but with a real guitar. You have to play well and hit the right notes, or the game penalizes your score. [Lightwing] took the stakes u…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 24, 2022 12:00pm This Scratch-Built X-Ray Tube Really Shines #highvoltage #parts #borosilicate #copper #getter #glass #titanium #tungsten #vacuumtube #xray #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 This Scratch-Built X-Ray Tube Really Shines On no planet is making your own X-ray tube a good idea. But that doesn’t mean we’re not going to talk about it, because it’s pretty darn cool. And when we say making an X-ray tube…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 19, 2022 4:00pm Multi-Stage Ion Thruster Holds Exciting Promise #highvoltage #science #ionpropulsion #ionthruster #plasmachannel #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Multi-Stage Ion Thruster Holds Exciting Promise Anyone who’s looked into high-voltage experiments is likely familiar with ion lifters — spindly contraptions made of wire and aluminum foil that are able to float above the workbench on…
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) August 15, 2022 3:00pm Sputtering Daguerreotypes, Batman! #art #classichacks #highvoltage #camera #daguerrotype #magnetron #sputtering #vacuum #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Sputtering Daguerreotypes, Batman! The Daguerreotype was among the earliest photographic processes, long before glass plates or film, that relied on sensitizing a thin layer of silver on top of a copper plate. The earliest Daguerreo…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 9, 2022 9:00am Junkbox Build Keeps Tesla Coils Perfectly Varnished #highvoltage #toolhacks #coil #gearmotor #lathe #teslacoil #varnish #winding #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Junkbox Build Keeps Tesla Coils Perfectly Varnished Admittedly, not a lot of people have a regular need to varnish coils. It’s mainly something that Tesla coil builders and other high-voltage experimenters are concerned with. But since that gr…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 26, 2022 9:00am Atmospheric High-Voltage Motor Makes Useful Power #highvoltage #science #atmospheric #corona #drill #motor #power #vandegraaf #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Atmospheric High-Voltage Motor Makes Useful Power While it almost seems like an insane fever dream from an otherwise brilliant inventor, Nikola Tesla’s plan to harvest energy straight out of the atmosphere and essentially give it away is mor…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 7, 2022 9:00pm ESP32 Powers Fresh Take On An IoT Geiger Counter #highvoltage #microcontrollers #environmentalsensor #esp32 #geigercounter #geigertube #mqtt #sbm20 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 ESP32 Powers Fresh Take On An IoT Geiger Counter Over the years we’ve covered many projects aimed at detecting elevated radiation levels, and a fair number of them have been Internet connected in some way. But as they are often built around…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 30, 2022 12:00am A Home Made Laser Cutter for 700$ #highvoltage #laserhacks #diylaser #diylasercutter #lasercutter #marlaser #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Home Made Laser Cutter For 700$ While some decent lasers are out there for under USD 400, they tend to be a little small. What if you wanted something a little nicer but didn’t want to jump to the USD 2000 category? The ans…