Hackaday (unofficial) May 20, 2022 6:00pm Square Cuts on Aluminum Extrusion, No Mill Required #toolhacks #aluminum #cnc #endmill #extrusion #jig #machinetool #router #squaring #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Square Cuts On Aluminum Extrusion, No Mill Required If you’re looking for the perfect excuse to buy that big, beautiful Bridgeport mill, we’ve got some bad news: it’s not going to be making perfectly square end cuts on aluminum ext…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 20, 2022 12:00am Flexible Grip For Hammer Made With 3D Printing Pen #3dprinterhacks #toolhacks #flexiblegrip #grip #toolgrip #tools #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Flexible Grip For Hammer Made With 3D Printing Pen When it comes to putting a flexible grip on a tool, you might reach for a self-fusing silicone tape or other similar product. However, [Potent Printables] has discovered you can easily create a fle…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 17, 2022 9:00pm Nanovolt Meter Requires Careful Design For Accuracy’s Sake #toolhacks #nanovoltmeter #noise #voltmeter #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Nanovolt Meter Requires Careful Design For Accuracy’s Sake Measuring voltages is fairly straightforward most of the time. Simply grab any old cheap multimeter, hook up the probes, and read off the answer. If, however, you need to measure very tiny voltages…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 12, 2022 7:00pm Hackaday Prize 2022: Salvaged Pumps and Hoses Make a Neat Vacuum Pickup Tool #thehackadayprize #toolhacks #2022hackadayprize #pickandplace #vacuumpickuptool #vacuumpump #vacuumtweezers #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hackaday Prize 2022: Salvaged Pumps And Hoses Make A Neat Vacuum Pickup Tool Anyone who’s ever assembled a PCB full of tiny SMD parts will have found that tweezers are not always the best tool when it comes to accurate positioning. Thin, flat components like microcont…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 11, 2022 9:00pm Caulking Gun Becomes Useful Press Tool for Fuel Line Fittings #3dprinterhacks #carhacks #toolhacks #3dprinter #press #presstool #tooling #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Caulking Gun Becomes Useful Press Tool For Fuel Line Fittings The simple caulking gun is really useful when you’re working on some bathroom repairs or squirting construction adhesives about the place. However, with a few simple mods, it can become a gre…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 10, 2022 4:00pm Theory, Practice, and Ducted Fans #science #toolhacks #benchgrinder #ductedfan #physics #testing #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Theory, Practice, And Ducted Fans About a year ago, [Wyman’s Workshop] needed a fan. But not just a regular-old fan, no sir. A ducted fan. You know, those fancy fan designs where the stationary shroud is so close to the movin…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 3, 2022 9:00pm Identify Radioactive Samples With This DIY Gamma-Ray Spectrometer #news #science #toolhacks #gammarayspectroscopy #raspberrypipico #scintillation #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Identify Radioactive Samples With This DIY Gamma-Ray Spectrometer If you’re a radiation enthusiast, chances are you’ve got a Geiger counter lying around somewhere. While Geiger counters are useful to detect the amount of radiation present, and with a …
Hackaday (unofficial) May 2, 2022 7:00pm I2C Tap Helps Assign Blame For SDA Conflicts #microcontrollers #toolhacks #debugging #debuggingtools #hackadayio #i2c #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 I2C Tap Helps Assign Blame For SDA Conflicts If you’ve ever debugged a misbehaving I2C circuit, you probably know how frustrating it can be. Thankfully [Jim] over at Hackaday.io, has a proto-boardable circuit that can help! Inter-integr…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 1, 2022 12:00pm Clever Scope Probe Drawers Keep Your Workbench Tidy #toolhacks #3dprinted #drawers #oscilloscopeprobe #probestorage #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Clever Scope Probe Drawers Keep Your Workbench Tidy Probes are an essential component of a good oscilloscope system, but they have the nasty habit of cluttering up your workbench. If you have a four-channel scope, it’s not just several meters …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 30, 2022 9:00am Giant CNC Partners With Powerful Laser Diode #cnchacks #laserhacks #toolhacks #cnc #diodelaser #diycnc #lasercutter #laserdiode #laserengraver #lasercutting #lasers #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Giant CNC Partners With Powerful Laser Diode [Jeshua Lacock] from 3DTOPO owns a large-format CNC (4’x8′, or 1.2×2.4 m), that he strongly feels is lacking laser-cutting capabilities. The frame is there, and a 150 W CO2 laser t…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 29, 2022 6:00pm Building a Swiss Army Lab With Software Defined Instrumentation #hackadaycolumns #toolhacks #hackchat #instrumentation #softwaredefined #testequipment #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Building A Swiss Army Lab With Software Defined Instrumentation It’s a fair bet that anyone regularly reading Hackaday has a voltmeter within arm’s reach, and there’s a good chance an oscilloscope isn’t far behind. But beyond that, thing…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 29, 2022 4:00pm Super Simple Scope Shambles Solution #toolhacks #benchorganiser #openscad #organization #probecaddy #scopeprobe #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Super Simple Scope Shambles Solution Sometimes the projects we write up for Hackaday require their creators to produce pages of technical explanation, while others need only rely on the elegance of the hack itself. The Scope Probe Cad…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 27, 2022 6:00am Genaille’s Rods: When Paint Sticks Do Math #history #toolhacks #division #maths #multiplication #oldschool #sliderule #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Genaille’s Rods: When Paint Sticks Do Math What is a hacker, if not somebody who comes up with solutions that other just don’t see? All the pieces may be in place, but it takes that one special person to view the pieces as greater tha…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 21, 2022 6:00am SMT Part Counter Aims to Ease Taking Inventory #crowdfunding #toolhacks #7segment #crowdsupply #inventory #kitproduction #smtreel #smttape #tools #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 SMT Part Counter Aims To Ease Taking Inventory [Nick Poole] has an interesting idea for a new tool, one that has the simple goal of making accurate part counts of SMT reels as easy as pulling tape through a device. That device is the BeanCounte…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 21, 2022 12:00am Bring Precision to the Woodshop with an Electronic Router Lift #toolhacks #arduino #machining #router #routertable #stepper #woodworking #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Bring Precision To The Woodshop With An Electronic Router Lift One of the knocks that woodworkers get from the metalworking crowd is that their chosen material is a bit… compliant. Measurements only need to be within a 1/16th of an inch or so, or about a…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 19, 2022 9:00pm Custom-Fit Small Shop Crane Lightens the Load #toolhacks #boom #crane #fabrication #jib #mast #metalwork #winch #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Custom-Fit Small Shop Crane Lightens The Load On the shortlist of workshop luxuries, we’d bet a lot of hackers would include an overhead crane. Having the ability to lift heavy loads safely and easily opens up a world of new projects, an…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 18, 2022 9:00am Gridfinity: 3D Printed Super Quick Tool Storage And Retrieval #toolhacks #3dprinted #modular #opensource #quickretrieval #toolstorage #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Gridfinity: 3D Printed Super Quick Tool Storage And Retrieval Our favourite cyborg [Zack Freedman] has been stumbling over a common problem many of us will be all too familiar with — that of tool storage and the optimal retrieval thereof. His solution is the …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 18, 2022 3:00am Drill Press Piece Fastening 101 #toolhacks #cclamp #clamp #clamps #drillpress #drilling #holddown #vise #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Drill Press Piece Fastening 101 What are the options you have for securing your workpiece to the drill press table? [Rex Krueger] shows us that there’s plenty, and you ought to know about them. He goes through the disadvant…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 17, 2022 6:00pm Measuring Electromagnetic Fields With Just an Arduino and a Piece of Wire #toolhacks #antenna #electromagneticinterference #emfdetector #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Measuring Electromagnetic Fields With Just An Arduino And A Piece Of Wire Electromagnetic interference problems can be a real headache to debug. If you need to prove what causes your WiFi to slow down or your digital TV signal to drop, then the ability to measure electro…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 17, 2022 2:00am A Neat Little Tool to Reset the Fuses on Your ATtiny #attinyhacks #toolhacks #attiny #boostconverter #hvprogramming #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Neat Little Tool To Reset The Fuses On Your ATtiny If you’re an experienced hacker, you’ve probably run into a problem at some point and thought “let’s make a tool to automate that”. A few hours later you’ve got …