Hackaday (unofficial) August 2, 2022 4:00pm Homemade SawStop Attachment Is Just About As Sketchy As It Sounds #toolhacks #amputation #brake #electromagneticclutch #hotdog #pyrotechnic #safety #saw #sawstop #tablesaw #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Homemade SawStop Attachment Is Just About As Sketchy As It Sounds TL;DR — when [Colin Furze] is your “safety inspector,” you really should be reconsidering your project goals. Most of us have probably by now seen the SawStop brand of self-stoppi…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 2, 2022 12:00am OpenDendrometer Can Measure How Your Tree Feels #toolhacks #automatedplantcare #botany #fruittrees #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 OpenDendrometer Can Measure How Your Tree Feels There are various ways to measure plant health, and we’ve seen many projects creating open-source solutions. One we haven’t seen is a dendrometer, which involves measuring various physi…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 23, 2022 9:00am Digital Measuring Wheel Is Exactly What It Sounds Like #toolhacks #measurement #metrology #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Digital Measuring Wheel Is Exactly What It Sounds Like You may have seen surveyors (or maths students) running around with measuring wheels, counting the clicks to measure distances. [AGBarber]’s digital measuring wheel works in much the same way…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 22, 2022 4:00pm Homebrew Curve Tracer Competes with the Big Guns #toolhacks #curvetracer #customtool #testequipment #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Homebrew Curve Tracer Competes With The Big Guns When we first saw the VBA curve tracer, we thought it might have something to do with Visual Basic for Applications. But it turns out it is a mash up of the names of the creators: [Paul Versteeg], …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 20, 2022 7:00pm Cut Just About Anything with This Combination Lathe and Wire EDM #toolhacks #ceramic #edm #electricdischargemachining #lathe #machining #wireedm #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Cut Just About Anything With This Combination Lathe And Wire EDM They say that if you have a lathe, you have every other machine tool too. To some degree, that’s true — you can make almost anything on a lathe, including another lathe, and even parts …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 20, 2022 6:00am Programmable Resistance Box #toolhacks #calibration #decade #microcontroller #oled #programmable #relay #resistance #resistor #substitution #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Programmable Resistance Box For prototype electronics projects, most of us have a pile of resistors of various values stored somewhere on our tool bench. There are different methods of organizing them for easy access and iden…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 19, 2022 4:00pm Putting a Cheap Laser Rangefinder Through Its Paces #toolhacks #laser #laserrangefinder #sensor #statistics #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Putting A Cheap Laser Rangefinder Through Its Paces Sometimes a gizmo seems too cheap to be true. You know there’s just no way it’ll work as advertised — but sometimes it’s fun to find out. Thankfully, if that gadget happens …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 19, 2022 6:00am Print Your Own Drill Guide Without a Linear Bearing #toolhacks #3dprintedtool #drillguide #nodebasedcad #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Print Your Own Drill Guide Without A Linear Bearing Typically we often don’t cover paid products here on Hackaday, but we couldn’t help but be impressed with this 3D printed drill guide from [USSA]. While you’ll need to pay the tol…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 17, 2022 3:00pm Beautiful Inductors, Now Not Such A Lost Art #radiohacks #toolhacks #coil #coilwinder #inductor #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Beautiful Inductors, Now Not Such A Lost Art As ferrite technology has progressed into a mastery of magnetic permeability, the size of inductors has gone down to the point at which they are now fairly nondescript components. There was a time …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 17, 2022 12:00pm A Home Made Sewing Machine May Be The Only One #classichacks #toolhacks #sewing #sewingmachine #textiles #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Home Made Sewing Machine May Be The Only One The sewing machine is a tool that many of us will have somewhere around our workshop. Concealed within it lies an intricate and fascinating mechanism. Some of us may have peered inside, but very fe…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 12, 2022 4:00pm A Handy Tester for a Mountain of PS/2 Keybords #arduinohacks #toolhacks #arduino #keyboard #ps2 #serial #test #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Handy Tester For A Mountain Of PS/2 Keybords The hacking life is not without its challenges, and chief among these is the tendency to always be in acquisition mode. When we come across a great deal on bulk equipment, or see a chance to rescue…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 11, 2022 9:00pm Old CNC Brain Swapped With An Arduino #cnchacks #toolhacks #arduino #cnc #cnccontroller #cncconversion #cncmachine #grbl #isel #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Old CNC Brain Swapped With An Arduino [Sebastian] and [Stefan Shütz] had a ISEL EP1090 CNC machine at home, sitting unused, and they decided to bring it to life. With pretty good mechanical specs, this CNC looked promising – alas…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 9, 2022 9:00am When Your Logic Analyzer Can’t Tell Good and Bad Signals Apart #repairhacks #toolhacks #fpga #la104 #logicanalyser #logicanalyzer #miniware #proprietary #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 When Your Logic Analyzer Can’t Tell Good And Bad Signals Apart [Avian] has picked up a Miniware LA104 – a small battery-powered logic analyzer with builtin protocol decoders. Such analyzers are handy tools for when you quickly need to see what really is …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 9, 2022 12:00am Pulling A Chainsaw With Gravity #toolhacks #chainsawmill #logcutting #milling #woodworking #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Pulling A Chainsaw With Gravity [Flowering Elbow] had a large ash log that needed to be milled. He had his chainsaw and shared an excellent technique for an easier cut. After cutting down a tree, letting it dry for a season, and …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 5, 2022 3:00am Photovoltaic Cells in LTSpice #toolhacks #ltspice #photovoltaic #spice #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Photovoltaic Cells In LTSpice We like to build things using real parts. But we do think the more you can model using tools like LTSpice, the less time you can spend going down dead ends. If you need to model a common component …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 3, 2022 9:00pm Testing a Tube without a Tube Tester #toolhacks #tubetester #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Testing A Tube Without A Tube Tester [M Caldeira] needed to test a tube and didn’t have a spare to do the old swap test. He also didn’t have a tube tester handy. Drawing inspiration from a 2015 video, he managed to cobble …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 2, 2022 6:00pm An Affordable Reference Mic You Can Build Yourself #digitalaudiohacks #toolhacks #laboratoryequipment #referencemi #referencemic #referencemicrophone #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 An Affordable Reference Mic You Can Build Yourself Reference mics are vital tools for audio work. They’re prized for their flat frequency response, and are often used for characterizing the audio response of a room or space. OpenRefMic aims t…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 1, 2022 12:00am The Mystery of Automatic Lubricators Is Revealed #toolhacks #automaticlubricator #industrial #industry #lubrication #lubricator #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Mystery Of Automatic Lubricators Is Revealed Industrial machines have all kinds of moving parts that require regular lubrication in order to prevent wear and damage. Historically, these would require regular visits from maintenance personnel …
Hackaday (unofficial) June 30, 2022 8:00pm ESP32 Camera Slider Build Keeps Things in Perspective #digitalcamerashacks #toolhacks #cameraslider #esp32 #gt2belt #motorizedcameraslider #webbased #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 ESP32 Camera Slider Build Keeps Things In Perspective We’ve seen a lot of camera slider builds here at Hackaday, and for good reason: having one really lets you take your project documentation, especially videos, to the next level. It’s on…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 27, 2022 4:00pm Metal Detector Gets Help From Smartphone #androidhacks #toolhacks #android #coil #driver #experiment #frequency #metaldetector #smartphone #wire #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Metal Detector Gets Help From Smartphone [mircemk] is quite a wizard when it comes to using coils of wires in projects, especially when their application is within easy-to-build metal detectors. There are all kinds of ways to send signals…