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This Mac Is Open Source Hardware
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (39+ words) Apple hardware has always been proprietary, sometimes to an extreme. But that's not to say that it's impossible to make something that does the same job, which is what [DosFox1] appears to have done w......
How To Fold Curved Lines In Metal Without Fancy Tools
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (37+ words) Folding a sheet of metal in a straight line is one thing, but how does one fold multiple curved lines into a sheet of aluminum without fancy machines? [John] demonstrates how to do exactly that with l......
Trying To Fix A Suspiciously Cheap Enterprise-Grade Network Switch
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (40+ words) When you see a listing for an Ethernet switch whose specification list is in effect 'yes', with a four-digit price tag when new, and with the seller asking for less than 10% of said $3,000 asking pric......
Anti-Doomscroll Tamagotchi Only Lives If You Do
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (383+ words) Hackaday The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you arenât staring at it right nowâ your smartphone Weâve seen a number of…...
Disassembling A Mini Air Blower To Make RC Airplanes
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (35+ words) As a certified RC airplane fan, the [RCMakerLab] on YouTube found themselves looking at one of those nifty mini air blowers that provide an alternative to a compressor and canned air for dusting and o......
Old IPad Keyboard Makes For A Modern Netbook
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (199+ words) hackaday.com Netbooks were a class of tiny laptops which hit their peak over a decade ago, with the idea being that you could use the Internet and do your computing on the move with ease Unfortunately manufacturers were scared…...
There’s A Whole Computer Inside This Mouse
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (258+ words) [Gadget Industry] bills it as “a PC inside a Mouse“, but that depends on your definition of a “PC”. This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there’s nothing IBM-compatible about the tiny ARM board he squeezes inside…...
There’s Whole Computer Inside This Mouse
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (42+ words) [Gadget Industry] bills it as "a PC inside a Mouse", but that depends on your definition of a "PC". This is a Personal Computer inside a mouse, yes, but there's nothing IBM-compatible about the tiny A......
A Split Keyboard Designed For Human Hands
1+ week, 3+ day ago (37+ words) A surprising number of things we use in everyday life retain most of their design cues from their 19th century ancestors. The bicycle retains the same basic design as it had in 1890, as does the sewin......
Doubling Thermal Printer Resolution By Wiggling
1+ week, 4+ day ago (232+ words) hackaday.com Insides of the Sears 12 calculator (Credit: Danalog, YouTube) Thermal printers are still extremely common today, using small heating elements in combination with temperature-sensitive paper to create a dot matrix-like effect without messing with ink ribbons and complex mechanisms…...