Half The Reflow Oven You Expected

Toaster oven reflow projects are such a done deal that there should be nothing new in one here in 2025. Take a toaster oven, an Arduino, and a thermocouple, and …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/half-the-reflow-oven-you-expected/

An Inexpensive Way to Break Down Plastic

Plastic has been a revolutionary material over the past century, with an uncountable number of uses and an incredibly low price to boot. Unfortunately, this low cost has led to …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/an-inexpensive-way-to-break-down-plastic/

Inside a Fake WiFi Repeater

Over the years we have seen a lot of fake electronics, ranging from fake power saving devices that you plug into an outlet, to fake car ECU optimizers that you …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/inside-a-fake-wifi-repeater/

Your Badminton Racket Needs Restringing? There’s a DIY Machine for That

We don’t often get our badminton rackets restrung, but if we did, [kuokuo702]’s PicoBETH project would be where we’d turn. This is a neat machine build for a very niche …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/your-badminton-racket-needs-restringing-theres-a-diy-machine-for-that/

Supercon 2024: Yes, You Can Use the Controller Area Network Outside of Cars

Ah, the CAN bus. It’s become a communication standard in the automotive world, found in a huge swathe of cars built from the mid-1990s onwards. You’ll also find it in …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/supercon-2024-yes-you-can-use-the-controller-area-network-outside-of-cars/

Custom Slimline CD Player Hides Out Under Speaker

In the era of digital streaming, the market is full of wireless speakers that will play content from your smartphone or pull it down from the Internet directly over WiFi. …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/custom-slimline-cd-player-hides-out-under-speaker/

General Fusion Claims Success with Magnetized Target Fusion

It’s rarely appreciated just how much more complicated nuclear fusion is than nuclear fission. Whereas the latter involves a process that happens all around us without any human involvement, and …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/general-fusion-claims-success-with-magnetized-target-fusion/

Chase Light SAO Shouldn’t Have Used a 555, and Didn’t

Around these parts, projects needlessly using a microcontroller where a simpler design would do are often derided with the catch-all “Should have used a 555,” even if the venerable timer …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/chase-light-sao-shouldnt-have-used-a-555-and-didnt/

Pi Pico Turns Atari 2600 into a Lo-fi Photo Frame

The cartridge based game consoles of decades ago had a relatively simple modus operandi — they would run a program stored in a ROM in the cartridge, and on the …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/27/pi-pico-turns-atari-2600-into-a-lo-fi-photo-frame/

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Why are Micro Center Flash Drives so Slow?

Every year, USB flash drives get cheaper and hold more data. Unfortunately, they don’t always get faster. The reality is, many USB 3.0 flash drives aren’t noticeably faster than their …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/why-are-micro-center-flash-drives-so-slow/

Fitting a Spell Checker into 64 kB

By some estimates, the English language contains over a million unique words. This is perhaps overly generous, but even conservative estimates generally put the number at over a hundred thousand. …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/fitting-a-spell-checker-into-64-kb/

Integrated BMS Makes Battery Packs Easy

Lithium technology has ushered in a new era of batteries with exceptionally high energy density for a reasonably low cost. This has made a lot possible that would have been …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/integrated-bms-makes-battery-packs-easy/

I have a project plan, I need a big enough project box to fit

- a acrylic dome
- a 180 degree fish eye camera
- a Raspberry Pi
- several RTL-SDRs
- The minimal number of antenna

The idea is to mount it all on the roof as a PoE powered sky cam with a ADS-B, ACARS and AIS decoder. So it can highlight overflying aircraft in the day and spot meteor (and ignore the planes) at night.

Problem now is finding all the parts and the time to build it.

3D-Printed Scanner Automates Deck Management for Trading Card Gamers

Those who indulge in trading card games know that building the best deck is the key to victory. What exactly that entails is a mystery to us muggles, but keeping …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/3d-printed-scanner-automates-deck-management-for-trading-card-gamers/

FLOSS Weekly Episode 826: Fedora 42 and KDE

This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Neal Gompa about Fedora 42 and KDE! What’s new, what’s coming, and why is flagship status such a big deal? Website: https://neal.gompa.dev/ GitHub Sponsors: …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/floss-weekly-episode-826-fedora-42-and-kde/

Supercon 2024: A New World of Full-Color PCBs

Printed circuit boards were once so simple. One or two layers of copper etched on a rectangular fiberglass substrate, with a few holes drilled in key locations so components could …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/supercon-2024-a-new-world-of-full-color-pcbs/

Teardown of Casio Credit Card-Sized Radio

These days we don’t get too fussed about miniaturized electronics, not when you can put an entire processor and analog circuitry on a chip the size of a grain of …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/teardown-of-casio-credit-card-sized-radio/

Tech in Plain Sight: Hearing Aids

You might think you don’t need a hearing aid, and you might be right. But in general, hearing loss eventually comes to all of us. In fact, you progressively lose …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/tech-in-plain-sight-hearing-aids/

Build Customized Raspberry Pi OS Images With rpi-image-gen

Recently Raspberry Pi publicly announced the release of their new rpi-image-gen tool, which is advertised as making custom Raspberry Pi OS (i.e. Debian for specific Broadcom SoCs) images in a …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/build-customized-raspberry-pi-os-images-with-rpi-image-gen/