Scanning Electron Microscope Adds to Already Impressive Garage Lab

From hackaday.com 4 years ago in Blogs

When you’re a high schooler who built a semiconductor fab in your garage, what’s next on your agenda? Why, adding a scanning electron microscope to your lab, naturally. How silly of you to ask. When last we stumbled across the goings on in the most interesting garage in New Jersey, [Sam...

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The Digital Radio Era (Partially) Ends In Ireland

From hackaday.com 8 hours ago in Blogs

It’s commonly agreed that the future of broadcast radio lies in the eventual replacement of AM and FM analogue transmissions with digital services. A wide range of technologies exist to service this change-over, and for much of the world the...

Tetris on Split-Flap Go Brrr

From hackaday.com 11 hours ago in Blogs

It hardly seems possible, but engineer collective and split-flap display purveyors [Oat Foundry] were able to build a working implementation of Tetris on a 10 x 40 split-flap display in the span of a single day. Check it out in...

Is That A Cat Or Not?

From hackaday.com 14 hours ago in Blogs

Pandemic induced boredom takes people in many different ways. Some of us go for long walks, others learn to speak a new language, while yet more unleash their inner gaming streamer. [Niklas Fauth] has taken a break from his other...

The IEEE Builds a Smart Watch

From hackaday.com 17 hours ago in Blogs

It used to be that building your own watch was either a big project or it meant that you didn’t really care about how something looked on your wrist. But now with modern parts and construction techniques, a good-looking smart...

Waterjet-Cut Precision Pastry

From hackaday.com 20 hours ago in Blogs

We need more high-end, geometric pastry in our lives. This insight is courtesy of a fairly old video, embedded below, demonstrating an extremely clever 2D CNC mechanism that cuts out shapes on a cake pan, opening up a universe of...

X-Ray Defeats Letterlocking — Unfolds and Reads Letter Sealed Since 1697

From hackaday.com 23 hours ago in Blogs

Over recent years we’ve been treated to a series of fascinating advances in the world of x-ray imaging, as researchers have developed their x-ray microtomography techniques and equipment to the point at which they can probe and then computationally reconstruct...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Makes Its First Martian Tracks

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

There’s a special kind of anxiety that comes from trying out a robotic project for the first time. No matter the size, complexity, or how much design and planning has gone into it, the first time a creation moves under...

99% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration, and 99% Collaboration

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

I was watching an oldish TEDx talk with Rodney Mullen, probably the most innovative street skater ever, but that’s not the point, and it’s not his best talk either. Along the way, he makes a claim that ideas — in...

Lost a Lightweight Quadcopter? Here Are The Best Ways To Find It

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Lost aircraft are harder to find when they are physically small to begin with. Not only are they harder to see, but the smaller units lack features like GPS tracking; it’s not normally possible to add it to a tiny...

Print Chess Pieces, then Defeat the Chess-Playing Printer

From hackaday.com 1 day ago in Blogs

Chess is undoubtedly a game of the mind. Sadly, some of the nuances are lost when you play on a computer screen. When a game is tactile, it carries a different gravity. Look at a poker player shuffling chips, and...