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Category: Hackaday

Things Are Looking Brighter! But Not The Stars

October 11, 2021January 3, 2022

Growing up in Montana I remember looking out at night and seeing the Milky Way, reminding me of my insignificance in the universe. Now that I live in a city, such introspection is no longer easy, and like 1/2 of humanity that also lives in urban areas, I must rely on satellites to provide the…

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The Many Ways To Solve Your Enclosure Problems

September 15, 2021January 3, 2022

Most projects around here involve some sort of electronics, and some sort of box to put them in. The same is true of pretty much all commercially available electronic products as well. Despite that, selecting an enclosure is far from a solved problem. For simple electronics it’s entirely possible to spend more time getting the…

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Something’s Up In Switzerland: Explaining The B Meson News From The Large Hadron Collider

May 13, 2021January 3, 2022

Particle physics is a field of extremes. Scales always have 10really big number associated. Some results from the Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment have recently been reported that are statistically significant, and they may have profound implications for the Standard Model, but it might also just be a numbers anomaly, and we won’t get to…

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It Costs What?! A Sounding Into Hearing Aids

February 1, 2021January 3, 2022

We are accustomed to medical devices being expensive, but sometimes the costs seem to far exceed reasonable expectations. At its most simplistic, a hearing aid should just be a battery, microphone, amplifier, and speaker, all wrapped in an enclosure, right? These kinds of parts can be had for a few dimes, so why do modern…

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The Cost Of Moving Atoms In Space; Unpacking The Dubious Claims of a $10 Quintillion Space Asteroid

November 23, 2020January 3, 2022

The rest of the media were reporting on an asteroid named 16 Psyche last month worth $10 quintillion. Oddly enough they reported in July 2019 and again in February 2018 that the same asteroid was worth $700 quintillion, so it seems the space rock market is similar to cryptocurrency in its wild speculation. Those numbers…

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Bespoke Storage Technologies: The Alphabet Soup Found In Modern Hard Drives And Beyond

November 4, 2020January 3, 2022

It seems like just yesterday (maybe for some of you it was) we were installing Windows 3.1 off floppy drives onto a 256 MB hard drive, but hard drives have since gotten a lot bigger and a lot more complicated, and there are a lot more options than spinning platters. The explosion of storage options…

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Dealing With A Hacked Brain: Let’s Talk About Depression

August 26, 2020January 3, 2022

This post is different from normal Hackaday fare. I don’t want to presume anything about you, but I’m pretty sure the story I’m about to share resonates with at least some of you. I’ve been having a tough time, exacerbated by this age of social distancing. This all crept up on me at first, but…

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Professional Ventilator Design Open Sourced Today By Medtronic

March 30, 2020August 26, 2020

Medical device company Medtronic released designs for one of their ventilators to open source for use in the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a laudable action, and there is plenty to glean from the specs (notable is that the planned release is incomplete as of this writing, so more info is on the way). Some initial reactions: medical…

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Ventilators 101: What They Do and How They Work

March 25, 2020August 26, 2020

Treating the most serious cases of COVID-19 calls for the use of ventilators. We’ve all heard this, and also that there is a shortage of these devices. But there is not one single type of ventilator, and that type of machine is not the only option when it comes to assisted breathing being used in…

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DNA Now Stands for Data and Knowledge Accumulation

February 18, 2020August 26, 2020

Technology frequently looks at nature to make improvements in efficiency, and we may be nearing a new breakthrough in copying how nature stores data. Maybe some day your thumb drive will be your actual thumb. The entire works of Shakespeare could be stored in an infinite number of monkeys. DNA could become a data storage…

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I am a computer engineer experienced in developing products from proof of concept through mass production. I want to have a positive impact on the world.

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