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RoboFun @robofun

Arduino, Raspberry PI, robotica si hardware opensource.

Joined April 2010
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RoboFun@robofun
9 Sep 2024
Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard Lives Again with RP2040 dlvr.it/TD1JwH

Microsoft Sculpt Keyboard Lives Again With RP2040

Hackaday readers are likely the kind of folks that have a favorite keyboard, so you can probably imagine how devastating it would be to find out that the board you’ve sworn by for years is go…

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RoboFun@robofun
9 Sep 2024
Repairing a Hallicrafters S-120 dlvr.it/TD0DWp

Repairing A Hallicrafters S-120

[MIKROWAVE1] claims he’s not a radio repair guy, but he agreed to look at a malfunctioning Hallicrafters S-120 shortwave receiver. He lets us watch as he tries to get it in shape in the video…

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RoboFun@robofun
8 Sep 2024
Reverse Engineering The Web API of an Akaso EK7000 Action Camera dlvr.it/TD043x

Reverse Engineering The Web API Of An Akaso EK7000 Action Camera

Recently, [Richard Audette] bought an Akaso EK7000 action camera for his daughter’s no-smartphones-allowed summer camp, which meant that after his daughter returned from said camp, he was fre…

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RoboFun@robofun
8 Sep 2024
How Hot is That Soldering Iron? dlvr.it/TCztdB

How Hot Is That Soldering Iron?

It is common these days to have a soldering iron where you can set the temperature using some sort of digital control. But how accurate is it? Probably pretty accurate, but [TheHWCave] picked up a …

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RoboFun@robofun
8 Sep 2024
Get Thee to Git dlvr.it/TCzfZ5

Get Thee To Git

While version control used to be reserved for big corporate projects, it is very mainstream these days. You can attribute much of that to Git, the software that has nearly displaced other version c…

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RoboFun@robofun
8 Sep 2024
Building a DIY MSX Mega Cartridge dlvr.it/TCzPf6

Building A DIY MSX Mega Cartridge

[Mike] from Leaded Solder has a soft spot for old computers, and a chance encounter with a friend sent them deep down the deep hole that is the world of 80s and 90s-era Japanese home computers.  Ma…

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RoboFun@robofun
8 Sep 2024
Rendering Skin Transparent Using the Food Dye Tartrazine dlvr.it/TCydbV

Rendering Skin Transparent Using The Food Dye Tartrazine

Although we generally assume that opacity is the normal look for animals like us humans, this factoid is only correct for as long as you maintain the dissimilar optical refraction indices of skin a…

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RoboFun@robofun
7 Sep 2024
Getting Started With Polypropylene (PP) 3D Printing dlvr.it/TCyV22

Getting Started With Polypropylene (PP) 3D Printing

Polypropylene (PP) is a thermoplastic that has a number of properties that sets it apart from other thermoplastics which see common use with 3D printing, including PLA, ABS and nylon (PA). Much lik…

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RoboFun@robofun
7 Sep 2024
Should You Run Servo Horns Or Direct Couplings In Your RC Planes? dlvr.it/TCyJP9

Should You Run Servo Horns Or Direct Couplings In Your RC Planes?

Whenever you buy a servo, it usually comes with a little baggie full of various plastic horns. Most of us pick our favorite and use it in our projects. Some of us hack them up, glue them back toget…

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RoboFun@robofun
7 Sep 2024
Hot Water Heater Hacked To Run On Solar Juice dlvr.it/TCy4ST

Hot Water Heater Hacked To Run On Solar Juice

It’s 2024, and there’s no getting around it. Grid energy is expensive. [Darrell] realized that a lot of his money was going on water heating, and he came up with a neat solution. What i…

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RoboFun@robofun
7 Sep 2024
Large Language Models on Small Computers dlvr.it/TCxpnV

Large Language Models On Small Computers

As technology progresses, we generally expect processing capabilities to scale up. Every year, we get more processor power, faster speeds, greater memory, and lower cost. However, we can also use i…

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RoboFun@robofun
6 Sep 2024
This Week in Security: EUCLEAK, Revival Hijack, and More dlvr.it/TCwlY3

This Week In Security: EUCLEAK, Revival Hijack, And More

[Thomas Roche] of NinjaLab is out with EUCLEAK, (pdf) a physical attack against Infineon security microcontrollers, and the security tokens that contain them. The name is a portmanteau of Euclidean…

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RoboFun@robofun
6 Sep 2024
Hackaday Podcast Episode 287: Raspberry Pi Woes, Blacker than Black, and Printing with Klipper dlvr.it/TCwW2k

Hackaday Podcast Episode 287: Raspberry Pi Woes, Blacker Than Black, And Printing With Klipper

Elliot Williams is back from vacation, and he and Al Williams got together to talk about the best Hackaday posts from the last week. Of course, the Raspberry Pi RP2350 problem generated a bit of di…

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RoboFun@robofun
6 Sep 2024
Build A Super Cheap RC Trainer Plane With Foam dlvr.it/TCwBL1

Build A Super Cheap RC Trainer Plane With Foam

Once upon a time, RC planes were expensive models that took months to build and big money to equip with electronics. Since the 20th century though, powerful batteries have become cheap, as have ser…

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RoboFun@robofun
6 Sep 2024
High-Speed Jelly Launcher Destroys Toast dlvr.it/TCvpbT

High-Speed Jelly Launcher Destroys Toast

You shouldn’t play with your food. Unless you’re designing some kind of portable cannon to fling it across the room. That’s precisely what [Backhaul Studios] did. The first step o…

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RoboFun@robofun
6 Sep 2024
It’s Spreadsheets All The Way Down for This 80s Handheld dlvr.it/TCvQBV

It’s Spreadsheets All The Way Down For This 80s Handheld

Unlike the today’s consumer computer market, the 1980s were the wild west in comparison. There were all kinds of different, incompatible operating systems, hardware, and programs, all competi…

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RoboFun@robofun
5 Sep 2024
If Wood Isn’t The Biomass Answer, What Is? dlvr.it/TCtMLj

If Wood Isn’t The Biomass Answer, What Is?

As we slowly wean ourselves away from our centuries-long love affair with fossil fuels in an attempt to reduce CO2 emissions and combat global warming, there has been a rapid expansion across a bro…

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RoboFun@robofun
5 Sep 2024
Getting Root on Cheap WiFi Repeaters, the Long Way Around dlvr.it/TCt62s

Getting Root On Cheap WiFi Repeaters, The Long Way Around

What can you do with a cheap Linux machine with limited flash and only a single free GPIO line? Probably not much, but sometimes, just getting root to prove you can is the main goal of a project. I…

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RoboFun@robofun
5 Sep 2024
Humble 555 Gets a Boost for ESR Meter dlvr.it/TCsmxt

Humble 555 Gets A Boost For ESR Meter

[Peter Demchenko] wanted to use a low power TS555 in an ESR meter design. The problem is, he needed to handle significant current sink requirements for cases where the capacitor under test had a lo…

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RoboFun@robofun
5 Sep 2024
Tactile Communication Board Speaks the Truth dlvr.it/TCsNCx

Tactile Communication Board Speaks The Truth

Sometimes, simple things can make a world of difference. Take for example a non-verbal person who can’t necessarily control a touch screen in order to tell someone else what they need or want…

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