Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together again to discuss the best of Hackaday for a week, and you’re invited. This week, the guys were into the Raspberry Pi 5, CNC soldering, signal processing, and plasma cutting. There are dangerous power supplies and a custom 11-bit CPU.
Of course, there are a few Halloween projects that would fit in perfectly with the upcoming Halloween contest (the deadline is the end of this month; you still have time). OpenSCAD is about to get a lot faster, and a $20 oscilloscope might not be a toy after all. They wrap up by talking about Tom Nardi’s latest hardware conversion of DIP parts to SMD and how TVs were made behind the Iron Curtain.
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Overclocking Raspberry Pi 5’s SoC To 3 GHz And 1 GHz GPU
A Raspberry Pi 5 Is Better Than Two Pi 4s
The Future of Microprocessors — Sophie Wilson
[Bunnie] Peeks Inside ICs With IR
Seeing Transistors Switch In Infrared
CNC Soldering Bot Handles Your Headers
The Magic Of A Diode Sampler To Increase Oscilloscope Bandwidth
High-Speed Design Techniques, 1996
Say It With Me: Aliasing
Simple Add-On Makes Cheap Plasma Cutter Suitable For CNC Use
Power Supplies Without Transformers
The Shocking Truth About Transformerless Power Supplies
CPU Built From Discrete Transistors
Build Your Own CPU? That’s The Easy Part!
FPGA Computer Covers A To Z |
Build A Fun CPU In Your Browser
Hacking A Universal Assembler
Elliot’s Picks:
2023 Halloween Hackfest: Treat Trough Of Terror Is Actually Pretty Cute
2023 Halloween Hackfest: Ouija Robot Is Even Creepier Than The Real Thing
At Last! Faster OpenSCAD Rendering Is On The Horizon
Al’s Picks:
Fixing A C64 With A Cheap $20 Oscilloscope
Google’s Augmented Reality Microscope Might Help Diagnose Cancer
A 1970s Mask ROM MCU Spills Its Secrets
Chip Shortage Engineering: Misusing DIP Packages