Join us on Wednesday, February 2 at noon Pacific for the Floppy Interfacing Hack Chat with Adafruit’s Limor “Ladyada” Fried and Phillip Torrone! When a tiny fleck of plastic-covered silicon …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/floppy-interfacing-hack-chat-with-adafruit/)

3D Printering: Water-Cooled Hotends
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/3d-printering-water-cooled-hotends/

There’s an old joke about the Thermos bottle that keeps things hot and cold, so someone loaded it with soup and ice cream. That joke is a little close to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/3d-printering-water-cooled-hotends/)

Another Neat General Purpose Soldering Iron Driver
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/another-neat-general-purpose-soldering-iron-driver/

https://hackaday.io/project/183790-all-purpose-power-micro-controller
" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/9428311643414263416.png?w=400" data-large-file="https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/9428311643414263416.png?w=800">Over on Hackaday.io, user [Tomasz Jastrzebski] has designed a tidy-looking custom controller for driving temperature-controlled soldering irons. The design is intended to be general purpose, capable of operating with irons …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/another-neat-general-purpose-soldering-iron-driver/)

Reusing Proprietary Wireless Sockets Without Wireless Hacking
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/reusing-proprietary-wireless-sockets-without-wireless-hacking/

Bending various proprietary devices to our will is a hacker’s rite of passage. When it comes to proprietary wall sockets, we’d often reverse-engineer and emulate their protocol – but you …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/reusing-proprietary-wireless-sockets-without-wireless-hacking/)

Reverse-Engineering a Two-Wire LED Strip Protocol
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/reverse-engineering-a-two-wire-led-strip-protocol/

Although Christmas may be several weeks behind us, various colorful LED contraptions can nowadays be found in our houses at any time of year. [Tim] got his hands on an …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/reverse-engineering-a-two-wire-led-strip-protocol/)

Time And Accuracy in Las ATMegas
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/time-and-accuracy-in-las-atmegas/

Do you ever have to ensure that an exact amount of time passes between two tasks in your microcontroller code? Do you know what’s the difference between precision and accuracy? …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/time-and-accuracy-in-las-atmegas/)

Open Hardware 5V UPS Improves On Cheap Powerbank Design
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/open-hardware-5v-ups-improves-on-cheap-powerbank-design/

Often, we need to power a 5V-craving project of ours on the go. So did [Burgduino], and, unhappy with solutions available, designed their own 5V UPS! It takes a cheap …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/01/31/open-hardware-5v-ups-improves-on-cheap-powerbank-design/)