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Passive Saturation Box is a Cheap Way To Distort Your Sound

Distortion pedals and overdrive effects usually have a bunch of lovely transistors or op-amps inside and lots of knobs and dials to tweak the sound to your personal taste. However, …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/passive-saturation-box-is-a-cheap-way-to-distort-your-sound/

Slide Rule by Helix

It is no secret that we like slide rules around the Hackaday bunker, and among our favorites are the cylindrical slide rules. [Chris Staecker] likes them, too, and recently even …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/slide-rule-by-helix/

Making solder wick less painful

For some people (e.g. this author) solder wick is a tool of last resort. Unfortunately, solder suckers and vacuum pumps lose most of their utility when you move from through-hole …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/making-solder-wick-less-painful/

Adding Assistive Technology to a Doorbell

The advent of affordable computing over the last few decades has certainly been a boon for many people with disabilities, making it easier to access things like text-to-speech technology, automation, …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/adding-assistive-technology-to-a-doorbell/

FLOSS Weekly Episode 835: Board Member B

This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Nate Graham about KDE! Why did Nate walk away from Apple, and how did he find Linux and KDE? And what does he …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/floss-weekly-episode-835-board-member-b/

A Vintage ‘Scope Comes Back To Life

We’re suckers for a vintage electronic teardown here at Hackaday, and thus it’s pleasing to see [Thomas Scherrer OZ2CPU] with a 1962 AEG oscilloscope on his bench. It’s definitely seen …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/a-vintage-scope-comes-back-to-life/

High-Stakes Fox Hunting: The FCC’s Radio Intelligence Division in World War II

With few exceptions, amateur radio is a notably sedentary pursuit. Yes, some hams will set up in a national or state park for a “Parks on the Air” activation, and …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/high-stakes-fox-hunting-the-fccs-radio-intelligence-division-in-world-war-ii/

Tune In to “Higher Lower”, the Minimal Handheld Electronic Game

[Tommy] has a great write-up about designing and building a minimalistic handheld electronic game called “Higher Lower”. It’s an audio-driven game in which the unit plays two tones and asks …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/tune-in-to-higher-lower-the-minimal-handheld-electronic-game/

3D Printing a Modular Guitar Means It Can Look Like Whatever You Want

Got some spare filament and looking to build a guitar you can truly call your own? [The 3D Print Zone] has created a modular 3D printable guitar system that lets …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/3d-printing-a-modular-guitar-means-it-can-look-like-whatever-you-want/

Making a LEGO Vehicle Which Can Cross Large Gaps

Here is a hacker showing off their engineering chops. This video shows successive design iterations for a LEGO vehicle which can cross increasingly large gaps. At the time of writing …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/making-a-lego-vehicle-which-can-cross-large-gaps/

Building An Automatic Wire Stripper And Cutter

Stripping and cutting wires can be a tedious and repetitive part of your project. To save time in this regard, [Red] built an automatic stripper and cutter to do the …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/building-an-automatic-wire-stripper-and-cutter/

Been a long and busy day, with a lot of things getting done. Including some mowing and putting together an 'irrigation trailer' I can pull around the property with my ATV.

You can buy water tank trailers and chemical spray trailers with pumps for this kind of thing, but they tend to be under 25 gallons and are quite expensive.

I wanted something with more capacity and I didn't want to pay that much – so I made my own!

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Building An Eight Channel Active Mixer

There are plenty of audio mixers on the market, and the vast majority all look the same. If you wanted something different, or just a nice learning experience, you could …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/building-an-eight-channel-active-mixer/

Open Source Watch Movement Really Ticks All the Boxes

When you think of open-source hardware, you probably think of electronics and maker tools– RepRap, Arduino, Adafruit, et cetera. Yet open source is an ethos and license, and is in …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/open-source-watch-movement-really-ticks-all-the-boxes/

3D Printed Tank Has a Cannon to Boot

Few of us will ever find ourselves piloting a full-sized military tank. Instead, you might like to make do with the RC variety. [TRDB] has whipped up one of their …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/3d-printed-tank-has-a-cannon-to-boot/

Supercon 2024: How To Track Down Radio Transmissions

You turn the dial on your radio, and hear a powerful source of interference crackle in over the baseline noise. You’re interested as to where it might be coming from. …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/supercon-2024-how-to-track-down-radio-transmissions/

Simulation and Motion Planning for 6DOF Robotic Arm

[Leo Goldstien] recently got in touch to let us know about a fascinating update he posted on the Hackaday.io page for ManiPylator — his 3D printed Six degrees of freedom, …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/simulation-and-motion-planning-for-6dof-robotic-arm/

My Winter of ’99: The Year of the Linux Desktop is Always Next Year

Growing up as a kid in the 1990s was an almost magical time. We had the best game consoles, increasingly faster computers at a pace not seen before, the rise …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/my-winter-of-99-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-is-always-next-year/

Add Wood Grain Texture to 3D Prints – With a Model of a Log

Adding textures is a great way to experiment with giving 3D prints a different look, and [PandaN] shows off a method of adding a wood grain effect in a way …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/add-wood-grain-texture-to-3d-prints-with-a-model-of-a-log/

Spin-Casting This Telescope Mirror In Resin Didn’t Go To Plan

For most of us, mirrors are something we buy instead of build. However, [Unnecessary Automation] wanted to craft mirrors of his own for a custom telescope build. As it turns …read more
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https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/spin-casting-this-telescope-mirror-in-resin-didnt-go-to-plan/