vlk @ hackaday.io build a very nice soldering pen with a OLED display. I found some projects where is used Weller soldering tips designed for WMRP soldering iron with standard 3.5mm jack and inside the tip is also thermocouple for sensing temperature. These tips are not so cheap but...

ThomasVDD @ instructables.com writes: A while back I built a powersupply from an old ATX PSU, and while it works great, I wanted to step up my game with a digital powersupply. As already said, it is powered by batteries (2 lithium cells to be precise), and it can deliver a maximum...

Nick Sayer @ hackaday.io build a SD card RAID USB storage board. He writes: This project is a hardware mechanism to provide secure "two man control" over a data store. It is a USB microSD card reader, but it requires two cards. The data is striped in the style of RAID 0, but the data...

RodNewHampshire @ instructables.com writes: The LoRa IOT Home Environmental Monitoring System consists of an Arduino Mega based IOT-to-Internet gateway and Arduino Feather based remote stations with environmental sensors. The remote stations communicate wirelessly with the gateway...

In 1982, the UK's best selling computer, ZX Spectrum, was released by Sinclair as 8-bit personal home computer highlighting the machine's color display. And today, a group of makers are introducing the Spectrum Next, an updated and enhanced version of ZX Spectrum. The Spectrum...

Yann Guidon @ hackaday.io rebuild the TIL311 hexadecimal display using a pic microcontroller. He writes: The TIL311 is a nice but expensive, obsolete, power-hungry hexadecimal display. It would be cool to make a tiny module with similar functionality which solves its shortcomings. A...

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Lukas Fässler has designed and built an RX/TX sequencer based on a PIC16F18325,  that is available on github: Much like the beacon keyer presented here earlier, this RX/TX sequencer is a simple but useful little device. Its typical use is in ham radio applications when a separate...