#ask hackaday

[ourwitching]

A Saturday afternoon. The work week was done, the household chores were wrapped up, and with almost...

[ourwitching]

A Saturday afternoon. The work week was done, the household chores were wrapped up, and with almost...

[ourwitching]

The lingua franca of electronic design is the schematic. I can pick up a datasheet written...

[ourwitching]

The lingua franca of electronic design is the schematic. I can pick up a datasheet written...

[ourwitching]

When a project has outgrown using a small microcontroller, almost everyone reaches for a s...

[ourwitching]

When a project has outgrown using a small microcontroller, almost everyone reaches for a s...

[pauljacobevans]

Ask Hackaday: Prove Santa Exists

There is no question, that Santa Claus exists. He’s real, with the sleigh, the beard, and the reindeer and everything. He distributes gifts to billions of children in an evening, squeezes down a billion chimneys without getting that stylish red outfit dirty, and gets back home to the North Pole before sunrise. What more proof do you need, after all the missile defence folks track his progress over the icy wastes every Christmas Eve! Well, the previous paragraph is the story you’ll get from the average youngster in countries where St. Nick is a cultural fixture, and who are we …read more http://pje.fyi/Q58mkw

[pauljacobevans]

Ask Hackaday: What Tools Do You Reach For First?

Let’s face it, in your workshop there are convenient tools, and there are quality tools, but so often they aren’t both. Think back to the tools you reach for first. Very often for me, speed and convenience win out. I don’t want to look too hard for that drill or saw, and want them to work as expected when I reach for them. At the same time, there are some tools that simply must be stored away, and can’t perch on my workbench forever or sit on a shelf. It really is a balancing act sometimes. I don’t have a …read more http://pje.fyi/PvPhvx