We don’t know if this will come as a surprise to the regular Hackaday reader, but a whole bunch of Atmel microcontrollers have a very cool feature hidden away in their datasheets. Most of them – ...

Researchers developed a super tiny thermometer that sits directly on a chip could monitor temperature changes and potentially ...

One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

Local-first wins.

The semiconductor chips driving modern-day computer processors are covered in billions of individual transistors, each of ...

Tired of condensation wrecking your shed tools or greenhouse gear? I built a no-frills ESP32 + DHT22 node that wakes every 15 minutes, grabs temp/humidity data, beams it over Wi-Fi, and sleeps—running ...

NewTek manufactures custom linear position sensing units in various strokes, sizes and materials, engineered to operate reliably in hostile environments where temperature can reach up to 200 °C.