Blogs about: Tool Hacks
On-the-go tool wallet
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wrote 4 days ago: Whether you’re off to the local Hackerspace, or headed to a friend’s house to lend a han … more →
Turning a 1942 lathe into a functional piece of art
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wrote 5 days ago: A couple of years ago, [macona] picked up a 1943 Monarch 10EE lathe. This monstrous machine is not o … more →
Soldering from the hip
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wrote 1 week ago: You can be the Sheriff around these parts, but only if you have a solder gun and holster to boot. [M … more →
Measuring projectiles with OpenChronometer
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wrote 1 week ago: [Spork] over on the Netduino forums wanted to push the limits of what his little board could do. He … more →
3d printing a mini lathe
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wrote 1 week ago: While browsing on one of our regularly visited sites, RobotsDreams, we found this interesting little … more →
Geeks living off the grid are hard on batteries
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Many of you will remember [Mikey Sklar] from the multitude of times he’s been on hackaday. Wha … more →
Mixing colors on the Reprap
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wrote 2 weeks ago: 3d printing has come huge strides in ability to construct detailed objects. Unfortunately, color is … more →
Building a Ranque-Hilsch vortex cooling tube
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wrote 2 weeks ago: The Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube is an interesting piece of equipment. It can, without any moving parts … more →
Making a miniature X-Ray tube from scratch
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wrote 2 weeks ago: We know that most of you will have no reason to ever make a miniature X-ray tube. However, we also k … more →
Turning an oscilloscope into a logic analyzer
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Sooner or later, you’re going to need a logic analyzer. If you don’t have a Bus Pirate o … more →
Designing a self-replicating milling machine
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wrote 2 weeks ago: For his senior design project at Swarthmore College, [Julian] decided to build a metalworking equiva … more →
Designing a self-replicating milling machine
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wrote 2 weeks ago: For his senior design project at Swarthmore College, [Julian] decided to build a metalworking equiva … more →
USB connectivity that is so very very small
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Using FTDI chips as a USB to Serial solution is nothing new, but this MicroFTX board takes the footp … more →
Going from idea to schematic to printed PCB
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Building a circuit on a bread board makes life much easier, but eventually you’re going to wan … more →
Flying microscope build seems way too nice for a home lab
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wrote 3 weeks ago: This flying microscope is a tool which [Darrell Taylor] can be very proud of. He wanted to have an i … more →
Upgrading a digital multimeter to tell the temperature
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wrote 4 weeks ago: [Rajendra] tipped us off to this really slick hack he’s done to allow his multimeter to tell t … more →
Watch a shop tour through the screen of an oscilloscope
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wrote 4 weeks ago: [Alan] posted a video tour of his electronics shop, but you’ll be viewing it through the green … more →
Using an NES controller with an Atari 2600
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wrote 1 month ago: Instructibles user [Danjovic] managed to get his hands on an Atari 2600, but all the joysticks were … more →
GPIB connectivity twofer
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wrote 1 month ago: Dust off that old GPIB hardware and hook it up to your modern computing platform using either of the … more →
