Equipment Needed to Get “Started” in Electronics
[Kenneth] is a Mechanical Engineer who likes to dabble in electronics. Besides providing us with an excellent picture of his workbench, he has put together a list of things that you’ll need as you...
View ArticleElectronics lessons for beginners
Hackaday reader [grenadier] wrote in to share a series of tutorials he is working on, where he discusses the basics of electricity and electronics. The first lesson titled, What is Electricity?” has...
View ArticleElectronics tutorial two-fer: soldering skills and wires
There is a plethora of electronics tutorials scattered about online. Sometimes it can be hard to separate the good ones from the bad, and the enlightening from the misinformed. We recently came across...
View ArticleCircuit Playground – An electronics reference app from Adafruit
It’s not everyday that we review software around here, but the folks at Adafruit recently put together an iOS app that I figured might be of interest. Their iPad/iPhone compatible application is...
View ArticleElectroDroid – your Android electronic reference app
Earlier this week, fellow Hack a Day-er [Mike Nathan] reviewed Adafruit’s new iPhone/iPad app Circuit Playground. The comments on [Mike]‘s review turned to suggesting ElectroDroid as an alternative to...
View ArticlePrinting point-to-point circuits on a 3D printer
[CarryTheWhat] put up an Instructable on his endeavours in printing circuit boards for solder free electronics. He managed to print a flashlight where the only non-printed parts are a pair of...
View ArticleElectromagnetic Field Camp
Emf Electromagnetic Field Camp is a three-day camping festival for people with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, geeks, scientists, engineers, artists, and crafters. There...
View ArticleA Much More DYI Air Gap Flash Unit
In reaction to the other air gap flash unit we featured a few days ago, [Eirik] sent us a tip about another one he recently made. In his setup, the duration of the flash peak intensity is around 300ns...
View ArticleShopping Trolley is Wired for Camp
[James] needed some cool transportation for the upcoming Easter Camp in New Zealand, so he created a custom motorized shopping trolley that is sure to turn heads. The base of this project is a...
View ArticleImpersonating FBI Agents And People Who Can Solder
[Dale Botkin], [N0XAS], is a competent designer for the amateur radio crowd and has a part-time business on the side selling a few kits. As anyone who owns a business, works in retail, or simply...
View ArticleHot or Not? Find Out How to Calculate Component Heat and Why You Should
How hot are your key components getting? There’s a good chance you’ve built a project and thought: “Well I guess I better slap a heat sink in there to be safe”. But when working on a more refined...
View ArticleHackaday Links: May 4, 2014
We’ve seen a few builds from the Flite Test guys before, like a literal flying toaster, airsoft guns mounted to planes, and giving an electric plane an afterburner (that actually produced a little...
View ArticleCustom Nixie Tube PSU is a Lesson in Good PCB Design
[Jan Rychter] was sick and tired of not being able to find the right power supply for his Nixie tube projects, so he decided to design his own. [Jan] started out designing around the MAX1771 (PDF)...
View ArticleSolderless Noise-o-Tron Kit Makes Noise at Chicago Makerfaire
Anyone who’s manned a hackerspace booth at an event knows how difficult it can be to describe to people what a hackerspace is. No matter what words you use to describe it, nothing really seems to do...
View ArticleTHP Hacker Bio: Rusty Jehangir
[Rusty]‘s project for the Hackaday Prize is extremely ambitious. He’s planning on sending an autonomous craft across the ocean, from LA to Hawaii, a distance that will end up being well over 2,500...
View ArticleMacGyvered Optoisolator is a Great Introduction
Sometimes the best way to learn about a technology is to just build something yourself. That’s what [Dan] did with his DIY optoisolator. The purpose of an optoisolator is to allow two electrical...
View ArticleInexpensive AVR Programmer Made From Five Components
If you want to program an AVR chip as inexpensively as possible, then [Ian's] solution might just be for you. He built an AVR programmer using only four components. This design is based on the vusbtiny...
View ArticleSolar Powered Circuit Waters Your Plants
If you want your plants to stay healthy, you need to make sure they stay watered. [Dimbit] decided to build his own solar powered circuit to help automatically keep his plants healthy. Like many...
View ArticleDirect Digital Synthesis (DDS) Explained by [Bil Herd]
One of the acronyms you may hear thrown around is DDS which stands for Direct Digital Synthesis. DDS can be as simple as taking a digital value — a collection of ones and zeroes — and processing it...
View ArticleNever Forget Your USB Stick Again
USB sticks are very handy. They are a very portable and relatively inexpensive means of storing data. Possibly the most annoying part about using one of these devices is when you inevitable leave it...
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