Being an early adopter is great if you enjoy showing off new gadgets to your friends. But any new technology also brings the risk of ending up at the wrong …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/10/04/reverse-engineering-an-isa-card-to-revive-an-ancient-cd-rom-drive/)

Surface Mount Soldering Practice for Budding Electrical Engineers
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/04/surface-mount-soldering-practice-for-budding-electrical-engineers/

Electronics components are steadily moving away from through hole parts to using surface mount technology (SMT) exclusively. While the small size of the SMT components can be intimidating, with a …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/10/04/surface-mount-soldering-practice-for-budding-electrical-engineers/)

You Can’t Be Too Rich or Too Thin — A 2mm Thick Computer
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/04/you-cant-be-too-rich-or-too-thin-a-2mm-thick-computer/

We’ve seen credit card-sized computers before, but [Kn/vD] shows us a PIC18-based computer with 9 components that is only 2 mm thick! With 13 K of RAM and 128 K …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/10/04/you-cant-be-too-rich-or-too-thin-a-2mm-thick-computer/)

Custom Macro Pad Helps Deliver Winning Formulas
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/custom-macro-pad-helps-deliver-winning-formulas/

For those of us with science and engineering backgrounds, opening the character map or memorizing the Unicode shortcuts for various symbols is a tedious but familiar part of writing reports …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/custom-macro-pad-helps-deliver-winning-formulas/)

East Coast RepRap Festival Returns This Weekend
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/east-coast-reprap-festival-returns-this-weekend/

After laying low during the height of the pandemic, the East Coast RepRap Festival (ERRF) is just days away from making its triumphant return to Bel Air, Maryland. This two-day …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/east-coast-reprap-festival-returns-this-weekend/)

The State Of The SBC Interface Ecosystem, Is It Time To Design A Standard?
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/the-state-of-the-sbc-interface-ecosystem-is-it-time-to-design-a-standard/

We are spoiled for choice when it comes to single board computers, whether they be based around a microcontroller or a more capable SoC capable of running an operating system …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/the-state-of-the-sbc-interface-ecosystem-is-it-time-to-design-a-standard/)

RatPack is a Wearable Fit for a Rodent
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/ratpack-is-a-wearable-fit-for-a-rodent/

Rats are often seen as pests and vermin, but they can also do useful jobs for us, like hunting for landmines. To aid in their work, [kjwu] designed the RatPack, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/ratpack-is-a-wearable-fit-for-a-rodent/)

Hackaday Wants You: Be a Supercon Volunteer
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/05/hackaday-wants-you-be-a-supercon-volunteer/