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Open-Source ExpressLRS Receiver Reaches for Range

Drone control links are, from a radio signals perspective, nothing short of amazing: using a transmitter capable of transmitting, at most, one watt, a protocol such as ExpressLRS (ELRS) can …read more

Source: Hackaday Aaron Beckendorf
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The Perfect Cold Water #piday #raspberrypi

ethan1110lin got tired of lukewarm water and designed a device that notifies them when their water reaches the perfect temperature. Check out the project details on instructables. So what can you do? Or, as a matter of…

Source: Adafruit Blog Takara
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The Shutter Makes This 3D Printed Camera Special

Making a film camera is a project within the reach of almost anyone, from the experimenter with cardboard and sticky tape, to the machinist with an aluminium billet. But 3D …read more

Source: Hackaday Jenny List
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The Brooklyn Museum Presents Art of Manga #​ArtOfManga

Coming in October, Art of Manga will bring over 600 drawings from influential manga artists to the East Coast. And Yes! cosplay is encouraged, safely. Art of Manga is the first major exhibition in the Americas to…

Source: Adafruit Blog Ben
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555 Makes a Useful Beat Frequency Oscillator

If you’ve got a cheap ham rig, it might not be very practical for you to receive certain transmissions out of the box. However, if you were to hack in …read more

Source: Hackaday Zoe Skyforest
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You Gotta Want It

On Hackaday last week, and on the podcast, we were talking about one of the educational toys of yesteryear that launched a thousand careers, at least if the comment section …read more

Source: Hackaday Elliot Williams
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The Digi-Comp I, a plastic mechanical computer from 1963

Chris Staecker on YouTube presents the Digi-Comp I, a plastic mechanical computer from 1963. This educational toy used logic rods and tubes to simulate binary computation, offering a tangible introduction to programming…

Source: Adafruit Blog Anne Barela
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Building an Analog Geiger Counter

These days, it’s plenty easy to build a Geiger counter with a microcontroller that has a nice fancy display and a simple digital readout for how many radiations you’re likely …read more

Source: Hackaday Zoe Skyforest
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Sleeper E-bike has Solenoid Display

[GRMNT] decided to bring his grandpa’s beautiful road bike into the future by making a sleeper e-bike conversion. Going into the project, [GRMNT] didn’t really know what he was working …read more

Source: Hackaday Navarre Bartz
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Hacking A Cat Litter Box

[Joseph DiGiovanni] is the owner of a Litter Robot 4. It’s a convenient mechanized litter box for cats that can clean itself to reduce unwelcome odors inside the home. He …read more

Source: Hackaday Zoe Skyforest
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How the Grid’s Harmonic Filters Keep the Power Clean

A fun way to think about a national electrical grid is as a massively upscaled electrical circuit, one in which you have multiple power supplies injecting AC power, with various …read more

Source: Hackaday Maya Posch