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Full Duplex over Coax – a Budget Cable Modem for your Arduino

Update: Meanwhile the video of the talk at Hackaday Europe is online: And there is an article on Hackaday.com https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/hackaday-europe-2026-build-a-cable-modem-for-your-arduino/ Documentation for the project shown at Hackaday Europe 2026 in [ ]

Using Texas Instruments OpAmps in LTspice

This is a quick guide to gaining access to a large variety of TI parts in particular operational amplifiers in LTspice. We re going to export the SPICE macro [ ]

IKEA cordless drill battery powering guitar pedalboard

Motivation Guitar effect pedalboards If this post is for you, I guess I don t have to explain this concept in great detail here. Most of us have a USB [ ]

A Maker Friendly Constant Fraction Discriminator

TLDR I built a relatively simple, cheap, and most of all maker friendly Constant Fraction Discriminator for high precision photomultiplier (and SiPM) timing applications. I wrote a paper about the [ ]

YosysHQ FPGA toolchain with VHDL support

TLDR I discovered that YosysHQ s oss-cad-suite now secretly supports code entry not just in Verilog but also in VHDL. (Update: well I looked at older releases and VHDL support was [ ]

implementing a sigmoid function in analog circuitry

Motivation This is a very short one but I felt like sharing this with the world. I was playing around with the humble long-tailed pair transistor amplifier in LTSpice. [ ]

four buttons on one ADC pin

Motivation Sometimes you just barely get away with the number of available microcontroller GPIO pins to implement the desired functionality And then you discover that you have no more [ ]

a simple ringmodulator-ish FX pedal

Demo Video Introduction Earlier this year I wrote a post about how to build a simple shortwave receiver with nothing but widely available hobbyist electronics parts, i.e. 74HCxx ICs, standard [ ]

Using CD4000_v.lib and 74hc.lib in LTSpice

So, I was simulating a circuit in LTSpice and I wanted to use an 4000-series IC. Someone probably did that before, right? So I googled and found quite some posts [ ]

yet another perpetual pendulum

Introduction Heya. So I found people building perpetual self-exciting pendulums (pendula? pendulae?) and showing them off on youtube. Nice 🙂 So far the most elegant that I know of seems [ ]