Hackaday (unofficial) November 23, 2023 4:00pm Life Imitates ART (ART-13, That Is) #radiohacks #teardown #boatanchor #dynamotor #transmitter #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Life Imitates ART (ART-13, That Is) [Mr. Carlson] has been restoring vintage military radios, and as part of his quest, he received an ART-13 transmitter. Before he opened the shipping box, he turned on the camera, and we get to watc…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 21, 2023 8:00pm Computer Gear with — um — Gears #teardown #analogcomputer #military #tank #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Computer Gear With — Um — Gears Analog computers have been around in some form for a very long time. One very obvious place they were used was in military vehicles. While submarine fire computers and the Norden bombsight get all …
Hackaday (unofficial) November 12, 2023 4:00pm A Classic Shortwave Radio Restored #radiohacks #repairhacks #teardown #shortwave #sony #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Classic Shortwave Radio Restored Before the Internet, if you wanted to hear news from around the world, you probably bought a shortwave receiver. In the golden age of world band radio, there was a great deal of high-quality progra…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 10, 2023 1:00am The Height Of 1960s Dental Electronic Technology #classichacks #teardown #dental #medicaldevice #vacuumtube #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Height Of 1960s Dental Electronic Technology If you’ve ever been to the dental surgery and found yourself requiring some gum surgery, the chances are you’ll have found your dentist wielding an electronic probe to cauterise the fle…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 4, 2023 12:00am Just How Dodgy Are Cheap USB Chargers Anyway? #teardown #charger #fuse #safety #smps #switchedmodepowersupply #usb #wallwart #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Just How Dodgy Are Cheap USB Chargers Anyway? Aside from apparently having both the ability to reproduce on their own and simultaneously never being around when you need one, USB chargers seem innocuous enough. The specs are simple: convert ma…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 21, 2023 6:00am Pocket Calculator isn’t a Brain or Magic #retrocomputing #teardown #calculator #sliderule #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Pocket Calculator Isn’t A Brain Or Magic If you predate the pocket calculator, you may remember slide rules. But slide rules take a a little skill to use. There was a market for other devices that were simpler or, in some cases, cheaper. …
Hackaday (unofficial) October 20, 2023 4:00pm An Explosive Look at Detonators #teardown #blastingmachine #detonator #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 An Explosive Look At Detonators If you’ve ever watched a cartoon where something blows up, you’ve probably seen a detonator — the device with a plunger that, when you push it, some dynamite blows up a bridge or …
Hackaday (unofficial) October 18, 2023 4:00pm Vector Network Analyzer Demo and Teardown #teardown #toolhacks #vectornetworkanalyzer #vna #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Vector Network Analyzer Demo And Teardown [Kerry Wong], ever interested in trying out and tearing down electrical devices, demonstrates and examines the SV 6301a Handheld Vector Network Analyzer. He puts the machine through its paces, noti…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 18, 2023 12:00am Ready For The Rapture: This Wind-Up Cassette Player Can Play Anywhere #reverseengineering #teardown #handcrank #handgenerator #windup #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Ready For The Rapture: This Wind-Up Cassette Player Can Play Anywhere As useful as electronics are, the need to have some source of power for them can be a bit of an issue, especially for small, portable devices. One of the most low-tech but universally applicable so…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 17, 2023 6:00am A Look At a 1960s Tube-Based Magnavox Concert Grand Console Stereo #teardown #consolestereo #magnavox #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Look At A 1960s Tube-Based Magnavox Concert Grand Console Stereo Back in presumably the early 1960s, [David]’s grandfather bought a console stereo featuring a record player, AM/FM radio and a rather astounding stereo speaker system that would be more than …
Hackaday (unofficial) October 8, 2023 3:00pm Blaupunkt Tube Radio is the Sultan of Radios #repairhacks #teardown #blaupunkt #tuberadio #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Blaupunkt Tube Radio Is The Sultan Of Radios According to [M Caldeira], the Blaupunkt Sultan 24300 was one of the last tube radios made in the 1960s. He’s got one but it needed some tender loving care, and you can see how he approaches …
Hackaday (unofficial) September 11, 2023 6:00pm Cheap LCD Uses USB Serial #hackadaycolumns #microcontrollers #teardown #ch552 #lcd #python #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Cheap LCD Uses USB Serial Browsing the Asian marketplaces online is always an experience. Sometimes, you see things at ridiculously low prices. Other times, you see things and wonder who is buying them and why — a shr…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 10, 2023 3:00pm Industrial Surge Protector Teardown #teardown #surgeprotector #varistor #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Industrial Surge Protector Teardown Surge protectors are a common item in the modern household, but the Meanwell unit that [Big Clive] tears apart was clearly intended for commercial use. In fact, he mentions it was made for outdoor …
Hackaday (unofficial) September 9, 2023 6:00pm Rare Arcade Game Teardown and Mods #games #reverseengineering #teardown #arcadegames #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Rare Arcade Game Teardown And Mods [Video Game Esoterica] loves a 1990s video game called Operation Tiger. Apparently, there are only a few of these known to exist in 2023, and he managed to find one of them. Well, it is really just…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 1, 2023 12:00am An Unexpected Appearance of an Iconic Motorola Chip #reverseengineering #teardown #bigclive #buckboost #motorola #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 An Unexpected Appearance Of An Iconic Motorola Chip Generally when you crack open a cheap car-to-USB charger unit that came with some widget, you do not expect to find anything amazing inside. That’s why it was such a surprise to [Big Clive] w…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 29, 2023 6:00pm Retro Gadgets: The 1974 Breadboard Project #hackadaycolumns #teardown #breadboards #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Retro Gadgets: The 1974 Breadboard Project It is hard to imagine experimenting with electronics without the ubiquitous solderless breadboard. We are sure you have a few within arm’s reach. The little plastic wonders make it easy to th…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 27, 2023 3:00pm Turning Soviet Electronics into a Nixie Tube Clock #clockhacks #teardown #clock #nixie #retro #soviet #vintage #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Turning Soviet Electronics Into A Nixie Tube Clock Sometimes you find something that looks really cool but doesn’t work, but that’s an opportunity to give it a new life. That was the case when [Davis DeWitt] got his hands on a weird Sov…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 15, 2023 6:00am A Guide to Field Stripping Your Voyager Tricorder #handheldshacks #teardown #prop #reproduction #startrek #tricorder #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Guide To Field Stripping Your Voyager Tricorder For the last few years, [Mangy_Dog] has been working on what is easily the most technically and aesthetically impressive Star Trek tricorder prop the world has ever seen. With each new version of t…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 13, 2023 10:00pm Portable 1990s POS Will Strain Your Back #phonehacks #teardown #mobilephone #motorola #pointofsale #portable #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Portable 1990s POS Will Strain Your Back [JR] over at [Tech Throwback] got ahold of an unusual piece of gear recently — a portable Point of Sale (POS) credit card machine from the late 1990s (video, embedded below the break ). Today…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 13, 2023 6:00am Opening a Curta — With Great Care #handheldshacks #teardown #toolhacks #curta #mechanicalcalculator #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Opening A Curta — With Great Care We’ve always admired Curta mechanical calculators, and would be very hesitant to dismantle one. But [Janus Cycle] did just that — and succeeded. A friend sent him a Curta Model 2 calcul…