Hackaday (unofficial) February 17, 2024 10:00am Salvaged Meter Movements Really Pop in This DIY VU Meter Bridge #mischacks #bridge #movingcoil #ne5532 #preamp #proaudio #vumeter #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Salvaged Meter Movements Really Pop In This DIY VU Meter Bridge If you’re going to build a nice VU meter bridge for the recording studio, the first thing you need is a nice pair of VU meters. But lest you think it’s as easy as putting some meters in…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 28, 2022 12:00am A Solar-Powered Point-and-Shoot, circa 1961 #teardown #35mm #analog #aperture #camera #exposure #fstop #film #movingcoil #pointandshoot #selenium #shutter #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Solar-Powered Point-and-Shoot, Circa 1961 Try to put yourself in the place of an engineer tasked with building a camera in 1961. Your specs include making it easy to operate, giving it automatic exposure control, and, oh yeah — you c…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 25, 2022 7:00pm Hackaday Prize 2022: Arduino-Powered Weighing Scale Has a Real Analog Display #homehacks #thehackadayprize #2022hackadayprize #loadcell #movingcoil #weighingscale #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hackaday Prize 2022: Arduino-Powered Weighing Scale Has A Real Analog Display Digital displays are useful for quick and accurate readout, but lots of people prefer the physical motion of a needle moving along a dial. For instance, many smartwatch users choose an analog face …
Hackaday (unofficial) January 3, 2022 10:00am Edge-Mounted Meters Give This Retro Frequency Counter Six Decades of Display #retrocomputing #teardown #decade #electroniccounter #frequencycounter #germanium #movingcoil #ocxo #ovencontrolledcrystaloscillator #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Edge-Mounted Meters Give This Retro Frequency Counter Six Decades Of Display With regard to retro test gear, one’s thoughts tend to those Nixie-adorned instruments of yore, or the boat-anchor oscilloscopes that came with their own carts simply because there was no oth…
