Solar lights are a popular garden decoration. Of course, they’re available cheaply from most hardware and garden stores, but if you’re more of the DIY type, you might like to …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/29/you-can-turn-soft-drink-bottles-into-handy-solar-lamps/)
Cute Oscilloscope Uses LEDs For Display
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https://hackaday.com/2022/03/29/cute-oscilloscope-uses-leds-for-display/
Oscilloscopes were once commonly called CROs, for the fact that they relied on cathode ray tubes for display. Since then, technology has moved quickly, and oscilloscopes these days almost entirely …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/29/cute-oscilloscope-uses-leds-for-display/)
Fifty Motored Paraglider Partly Flies, Partly Glides
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https://hackaday.com/2022/03/29/fifty-motored-paraglider-partly-flies-partly-glides/
If there’s one thing you can count on [Peter Sripol] for, it’s for defining the the aviation category of “Don’t Try This At Home.” In the video below the break, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/29/fifty-motored-paraglider-partly-flies-partly-glides/)
Building a DIY Flight Yoke For Flight Simulator
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Flight yokes are key to getting an authentic experience when playing a flight simulator, but [Michel Rechtin] didn’t want to pay big money for a commercially-available solution. He ended up …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/29/building-a-diy-flight-yoke-for-flight-simulator/)
Building 7-Segment Displays With LEGO
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Utter the words “7-segment display” amongst hackers and you’ll typically get people envisaging the usual LED and LCD versions that we all come across in our daily lives. However, mechanical …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/building-7-segment-displays-with-lego/)
Wind-Up Tape Measure Transformed into Portable Ham Antenna
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https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/wind-up-tape-measure-transformed-into-portable-ham-antenna/
If there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are good at, it’s turning just about anything into an antenna. And hams have a long history of portable operations, too, where …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/wind-up-tape-measure-transformed-into-portable-ham-antenna/)
Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back To Phones If The EU Gets Its Way
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https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/replaceable-batteries-are-coming-back-to-phones-if-the-eu-gets-its-way/
Back in the day, just about everything that used a battery had a hatch or a hutch that you could open to pull it out and replace it if need …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/replaceable-batteries-are-coming-back-to-phones-if-the-eu-gets-its-way/)