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IBIS Models Explained
If you’ve worked with circuit simulation, you may have run into IBIS models. The acronym is input/output buffer information, and…
Loudmouth DJI Drones Tell Everyone Where You Are
Back when commercial quadcopters started appearing in the news on the regular, public safety was a talking point. How, for…
Classic 1960s Flip Clock Gets NTP Makeover
Many of the clocks we feature here on Hackaday are entirely built from scratch, or perhaps reuse an unusual display…
How Much Programming Can ChatGPT Really Do?
By now we’ve all seen articles where the entire copy has been written by ChatGPT. It’s essentially a trope of…
Inside Digital Image Chips
Have you ever thought how amazing it is that every bit of DRAM in your computer requires a teeny tiny…
Recreating one of History’s Best Known Spy Gadgets
got an interesting request. The BBC asked him to duplicate the Great Seal Bug — the device the Russians used…
Single Flex PCB Folds into a Four-Wheel Rover, Complete with Motors
You’ve got to hand it to — he comes up with some of the most interesting electromechanical designs we’ve seen.…
Gordon Moore, 1929 — 2023
The news emerged yesterday that Gordon Moore, semiconductor pioneer, one of the founders of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, and…
Clever Mechanism Powers This All-Mechanical Filament Respooler
No matter how far down the 3D printing rabbit hole we descend, chances are pretty good that most of us…