Hackaday Links: January 25, 2015
Misumi is doing something pretty interesting with their huge catalog of aluminum extrusions, rods, bolts, and nuts. They’re putting up BOMs for 3D printers. If you’ve ever built a printer with...
View ArticleLogic Analyzer Pushes the Limits of Miniaturization
Careful not to sneeze while using this diminutive logic analyzer — you could send it flying across the bench. Undertaken more for the challenge than as a practical bench tool, [Uwe Hermann]’s tiny...
View ArticleSpite, Thrift, and the Virtues of an Affordable Logic Analyzer
[Larry Wall], the father of Perl, lists the three great virtues of all programmers: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. After seeing that Saleae jacked up the prices on their popular logic analyzers to...
View ArticleCheap PSoC Enables Electrochemistry Research
You may think electrochemistry sounds like an esoteric field where lab-coated scientists labor away over sophisticated instruments and publish papers that only other electrochemists could love. And...
View ArticleInfineon Buys Cypress For $10B
Infineon will acquire Cypress Semiconductors for nearly $10 Billion dollars. This is the latest merger or acquisition in the semiconductor industry, and these mergers and acquisitions show no sign of...
View ArticleTrill: Easy Positional Touch Sensors for Your Projects
Creating capacitive touch-sensitive buttons is easy these days; many microcontrollers have cap-sense hardware built-in. This will work for simple on/off control, but what if you want a linear,...
View ArticleTeardown: Sling Adapter
The consumer electronics space is always in a state of flux, but perhaps nowhere is this more evident than with entertainment equipment. In the span of just a few decades we went from grainy VHS tapes...
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