Not that long ago, rolling your own printed circuit boards was difficult, time-consuming and expensive. But thanks to an army of cheap, online manufacturing services as well as high-quality free …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/supercon-2022-matt-venns-tiny-tapeout-brings-chip-design-to-the-masses/)

How Home Made Robot Arms Used To Be Made
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/how-home-made-robot-arms-used-to-be-made/

With laser cutters and 3D printers in our arsenal as well as the global toy shop of mass-produced parts and single-board computers, building a robotic project has almost never been …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/how-home-made-robot-arms-used-to-be-made/)

5-Axis Printer Wants to Design Itself
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/5-axis-printer-wants-to-design-itself/

RepRap 3D printers were designed with the ultimate goal of self-replicating machines. The generatively-designed Gen5X printer by [Ric Real] brings the design step of that process closer to reality. While …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/5-axis-printer-wants-to-design-itself/)

Too Cool for 8-bit Retro? Try 1-bit Gaming
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/too-cool-for-8-bit-retro-try-1-bit-gaming/

While the world has been racing for higher and higher bit counts for CPUs, there are always those that buck the trend. Consider the venerable Motorola MC14500B, a 1-bit CPU, …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/too-cool-for-8-bit-retro-try-1-bit-gaming/)

OpenSPICE: A Portable Python Circuit Simulator
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/openspice-a-portable-python-circuit-simulator/

[Roman Parise] and [Georgios Is. Detorakis] have created OpenSPICE a fork of the PySpice project, adding a new simulation engine written entirely in Python. This enables the same PySpice simulations …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/openspice-a-portable-python-circuit-simulator/)

Sol-20 Integrated Computer Teardown
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/sol-20-integrated-computer-teardown/

[Action Retro] came into an antique Sol-20 computer and argues that it was the first totally integrated computer aimed at consumers that didn’t require you to buy or build some …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/14/sol-20-integrated-computer-teardown/)

Curve Tracer Design for Power Vacuum Tubes Testing
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/15/curve-tracer-design-for-power-vacuum-tubes-testing/

Regardless of the mythical qualities that are all too often attributed to vacuum tubes, they are still components that can be damaged and wear out over time. Much like with …read more (https://hackaday.com/2023/02/15/curve-tracer-design-for-power-vacuum-tubes-testing/)