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An Anti-Tamper Mesh Plugin for KiCad
Physical access to electronics generally means all bets are off when it comes to information security. But in special cases this is just unacceptable and a better solution must be found. Consider the...
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Tether Tames Temperamental Typing
[chadaustin] has a favorite keyboard with a great ergonomic shape, key travel distance, and size, but after switching to Windows 10, the wireless connection introduced a terrible delay. Worse yet, the...
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Surf’s Up, A Styrofoam Ball Rides the Waves to Create a Volumetric Display
We are big fans of POV displays, particularly ones that move into 3D. To do so, they need to move even faster than their 2D cousins. [danfoisy] built a volumetric display that doesn’t move LEDs or any...
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WiFiWart Linux Pentesting Device Gets First PCBs
When we last checked in on the WiFiWart, an ambitious project to scratch-build a Linux powered penetration testing drop box small enough to be disguised as a standard phone charger, it was still in the...
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Tool Generates Interactive PCB Diagrams from KiCAD
Nearly everyone likes nice pinout diagrams, but the more pins and functions are involved, the more cluttered and less useful the diagram becomes. To address this, [Jan Mrázek] created Pinion, a tool to...
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Highly Configurable Open Source Microscope Cooked Up In FreeCAD
What do you get when you cross a day job as a Medical Histopathologist with an interest in 3D printing and programming? You get a fully-baked Open Source microscope, specifically the Portable...
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KiCad Team Releases Warning Regarding Domain Name
On October 19th, [Seth_h] from the KiCad Project posted on the KiCad forums that the project’s original domain name kicad-pcb.org has been unexpectedly sold to a third party, and urged members of the...
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3D Printed Printing Plates Made Using Modern Tools
It’s widely accepted that the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg in the 15th Century was the event that essentially enabled the development of the modern world, allowing access to knowledge...
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Flip-Chip KiCad Templates
We like retro-computing and we like open source standards that allow easy project sharing. Vintage DEC computer enthusiast [Jay Logue] combines both of these in his recent project on GitHub, where he...
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Slick Keyboard Built With PCB Magic
Sometimes a chance conversation leads you to discover something cool you’ve not seen before, and before you know it, you’re ordering parts for yet another hardware build. That’s what happened to this...
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Tricked-Out Breadboard Automatically Draws Schematics of Whatever You Build
When it comes to electronic design, breadboarding a circuit is the fun part — the creative juices flow, parts come and go, jumpers build into a tangled mess, but it’s all worth it when the circuit...
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Advanced PCB Graphics with KiCAD 6 and Inkscape
There are many, many video tutorials about designing the functional side of PCBs, giving you tips on schematic construction, and layout tips. What is a little harder to find are tutorials on the...
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KiCAD 6.0: What Made It and What Didn’t
I’ve been following the development of KiCAD for a number of years now, and using it as my main electronics CAD package daily for a the last six years or thereabouts, so the release of KiCAD 6.0 is...
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Ultra Cheap PCB Wrenches Make Perfect Kit Accessory
Let’s make one thing abundantly clear. We do not, under any circumstances, recommend you replace your existing collection of wrenches with ones made out of PCBs. However, as creator [Ben Nyx] explains,...
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This ESP32 Pico Wristwatch Has Plenty Of Potential
First hand-built prototype. Nurse! isopropyl alcohol, stat! Prolific hacker [Sulfuroid] is a medical doctor by day, and an electronics hobbyist by night, and quite how he finds the time, we have no...
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OpenMower: Open Source Robotic Lawn Mower With RTK GPS
Robotic mowers are becoming a common sight in some places, enabled by the cost of motors and the needed control electronics being much lower, thanks to the pace of modern engineering. But, in many...
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KiCAD Plugin Gives Your PCBs that Handmade Look
The first PCBs we built involved a draftsman laying out large pieces of tape. The finished artwork would be photographically reduced to produce the board. This solved a few problems. It was easier to...
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Berlin Clock Takes Inspiration From Sci-Fi Sources, Looks Incredible
What would a HAL9000 look like if it eye were yellow and sat atop a front panel inspired by an Altair 8800? You’d have today’s feature, [Stephan]’s BerlinUhr, a gorgeous little take on a Berlin Clock....
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Ethersweep: An Easy-To-Deploy Ethernet Connected Stepper Controller
[Neumi] over on Hackaday.IO wanted a simple-to-use way to drive stepper motors, which could be quickly deployed in a wide variety of applications yet to be determined. The solution is named Ethersweep,...
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A RPI HAT For Synchronized Measurements
A team from the Institute for Automation of Complex Power System (ACS) at RWTH Aachen University have been working for a while on the analysis of widely distributed power systems. In a drive to move...
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