Hackaday (unofficial) April 28, 2023 12:00am Cheap Deburring Tool Is Game Changer For 3D Printing #3dprinterhacks #toolhacks #3dprint #3dprinter #3dprinting #deburring #deburringtool #postprocessing #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Cheap Deburring Tool Is Game Changer For 3D Printing 3D printing’s real value is that you can whip up objects in all kinds of whacky geometries with a minimum of fuss. However, there’s almost always some post-processing to do. Like many m…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 24, 2023 3:00am Shake Your PCB Etching, With An Old Optical Drive #toolhacks #etching #opticaldrive #pcb #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Shake Your PCB Etching, With An Old Optical Drive Easy PCB fabrication in China has revolutionised electronic construction at our level, but there are still times when it makes sense to etch your own boards. It’s a messy business that can al…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 22, 2023 9:00pm Op Amp Contest: Clever Continuity Tester Tells you Where the Problem is #hardware #toolhacks #continuitytester #debugging #resistance #shortcircuit #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Op Amp Contest: Clever Continuity Tester Tells You Where The Problem Is A continuity tester, as found on most multimeters today, is a great tool for finding broken connections and short circuits. But once you’ve found a short, it’s up to you to figure out w…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 20, 2023 9:00pm Making Neon Trees The Easy Way With No Oven Pumps Required #toolhacks #glass #glasswork #glassworking #neon #oven #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Making Neon Trees The Easy Way With No Oven Pumps Required Neon lamps are fun and beautiful things. Hackers do love anything that glows, after all. But producing them can be difficult, requiring specialized equipment like ovens and bombarders to fill them …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 20, 2023 7:00pm A Temperature-Sensing Magnetic Stir Bar #science #toolhacks #labequipment #magneticstirbar #magneticstirrer #rfidtag #stirrer #temperaturesensor #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Temperature-Sensing Magnetic Stir Bar Magnetic stirring bars are the coolest piece of equipment you’ll see in a high-school chemistry lab. They’re a great way for agitating a solution without having to stand there manually …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 18, 2023 7:00pm Radio Waves Bring the Heat With This Microwave-Powered Forge #cookinghacks #toolhacks #ceramic #crucible #forge #furnace #microwave #silconcarbide #sodiumsilicate #waterglass #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Radio Waves Bring The Heat With This Microwave-Powered Forge Depending on the chef’s skill, many exciting things can happen in the kitchen. Few, however, grab as much immediate attention as when a piece of foil or a fork accidentally (?) makes it into …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 18, 2023 12:00am Bust Out That Old Analog Scope For Some Velociraster Fun! #hardware #toolhacks #analogoscilloscope #breadboard #dac #dma #pio #raspberrypipico #raster #vector #xymode #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Bust Out That Old Analog Scope For Some Velociraster Fun! [Oli Wright] is back again with another installation of CRT shenanigans. This time, the target is the humble analog oscilloscope, specifically a Farnell DTV12-14 12 MHz dual-channel unit, which fea…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 15, 2023 12:00pm Better Laser Cuts: Know Your Kerf #laserhacks #toolhacks #kerf #lasercutting #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Better Laser Cuts: Know Your Kerf The recent crop of laser cutters are nothing short of miraculous. For a few hundred dollars you can get a machine that can easily engrave and — subject to materials — cut well, too. [Na…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 15, 2023 6:00am Kicad Autorouting Made Easy #toolhacks #autorouting #kicad #pcb #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Kicad Autorouting Made Easy One of the most laborious tasks in PCB layout is the routing. Autorouting isn’t always perfect, but it is nice to have the option, even if you only use it to get started and then hand-tune th…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 13, 2023 9:00pm Hackathon Wire EDM Build Really Works #toolhacks #edm #wireedm #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hackathon Wire EDM Build Really Works If you’ve ever short-circuited a car battery, you’ve seen the pitting and damage a few sparks can cause. Smart minds realised that controlled sparks could erode metal very accurately, i…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 11, 2023 6:00am Your Multimeter Might Be Lying To You #toolhacks #amaterradio #antenna #circuitbehavior #continuity #dc #ham #highfrequency #multimeter #radio #shortcircuit #testing #tools #transformer #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Your Multimeter Might Be Lying To You Multimeters are indispensable tools when working on electronics. It’s almost impossible to build any but the most basic of circuits without one to test and troubleshoot potential issues, and …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 10, 2023 9:00pm Busting Wireless ESD Wrist Straps With LTT and ElectroBOOM #science #toolhacks #electrostaticdischarge #esdstrap #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Busting Wireless ESD Wrist Straps With LTT And ElectroBOOM Nobody likes getting zapped from an electrostatic discharge, no matter whether you’re a fragile ASIC or a bag-of-mostly-salty-water humanoid. To prevent this, ESD wrist straps and similar are…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 5, 2023 9:00pm A Soft Soldering Jig For Hard Projects #toolhacks #3dprinted #customtool #openscad #silicone #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Soft Soldering Jig For Hard Projects We’ve seen some absolutely gorgeous freeform circuit sculptures. There’s a mystic quality to taking what has normally been hidden away for safety and reliability reasons and putting it …
Hackaday (unofficial) March 30, 2023 12:00am The BLE Datalogging Scale Of A Thousand Uses #toolhacks #ble #bluetooth #bluetoothlowenergy #scale #tools #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The BLE Datalogging Scale Of A Thousand Uses Whether you’re making coffee or beer or complex chemicals, weighing your ingredients carefully and tracking them is key to getting good results. [Tech Dregs] decided to build a logging…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 22, 2023 9:00pm Homebrew Tire Inflator Pushes the Limits of PVC Construction #toolhacks #aircompressor #modeling #piston #pump #pvc #schradervalve #tire #tireinflator #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Homebrew Tire Inflator Pushes The Limits Of PVC Construction Let’s just clear something up right from the start with this one: there’s literally no reason to build your own tire inflator from scratch, especially when you can buy a perfectly servi…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 22, 2023 7:00pm Vintage Tektronix Virtual Graticule #classichacks #toolhacks #history #oscilloscope #testequipment #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Vintage Tektronix Virtual Graticule Oscilloscopes are great for measuring the time and voltage information of a signal. Some old scopes don’t have much in the way of markings on the CRT, although eventually, we started seeing s…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 19, 2023 3:00pm 3D-Printed Shredder Eats Lettuce For Breakfast #3dprinterhacks #toolhacks #3dprinted #shredder #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D-Printed Shredder Eats Lettuce For Breakfast Shredding things isn’t just good for efficiently and securely disposing of them. It’s also very fun, as well. [Joonas] of [Let’s Print] didn’t have a shredder, so set about …
Hackaday (unofficial) March 17, 2023 9:00pm Finessing a Soldering Iron to Remove Large Connectors #toolhacks #blob #connector #desoldering #pcb #solder #solderingiron #tools #wire #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Finessing A Soldering Iron To Remove Large Connectors One of the first tools that is added to a toolbox when working on electronics, perhaps besides a multimeter, is a soldering iron. From there, soldering tools can be added as needed such as a hot ai…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 16, 2023 12:00pm Laser and Webcam Team Up for Micron-Resolution Flatness Measurements #laserhacks #toolhacks #ccd #cnc #flatness #gantry #imagesensor #laser #linearbearing #micron #surface #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Laser And Webcam Team Up For Micron-Resolution Flatness Measurements When you want to measure the length, breadth, or depth of an object, there are plenty of instruments for the job. You can start with a tape measure, move up to calipers if you need more precision, …
Hackaday (unofficial) March 15, 2023 9:00pm Spin Up To Speed With This Stroboscope #toolhacks #attiny1614 #dutycycle #frequency #led #pwm #stroboscope #timing #timinglight #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Spin Up To Speed With This Stroboscope A stroboscope is not the most common tool, and while they can be purchased fairly inexpensively from various online stores, they are straightforward enough tools that plenty of us could build our o…