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Sometimes you need to display a number nice and large, making it easily readable at a good distance. [Lewis] has just the thing for that: a big expandable 7-segment display. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/you-can-build-a-giant-7-segment-display-of-your-very-own/)
Back in the early days of the home computer revolution, data was commonly saved on tape. Even better, those tapes would make an almighty racket if you played them on …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/simple-universal-modem-helps-save-and-load-data-from-tape/)
The widespread adoption of the CAN bus (and OBD-II) in automobiles was largely a way of standardizing the maintenance of increasingly complicated engines and their needs to meet modern emissions …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/probing-can-bus-for-ev-battery-info/)
Restoring vintage electronics is a difficult hobby to tackle. Even the most practical builds often have to use some form of modern technology to work properly, or many different versions …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/27/tiny-arcade-uses-tiny-crt/)
Retrograde clocks are unique, in that they eschew the normal fully-circular movement for the hands. Instead, the hands merely sweep out a segment of a circular arc, before jumping back …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/28/diy-retrograde-clock-is-3d-printed/)
Want to try a big quantum computer but don’t have the cash? Google wants to up your simulation game with their “Quantum Virtual Machine” that you can use for free. …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/28/google-quantum-virtually/)
There are some things that leave indelible impressions in your memory. One of those things, for me, was a technical presentation in 1980 I attended — by calling in a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/07/28/your-own-engineering-workstation-with-mame/)