Dan Maloney, Author at 3D Printing Magazine

Two-Tube Spy Transmitter Fits in the Palm of Your Hand

March 29, 2023 Dan Maloney 1 Viewsamateur, cw, ham, morse, oscillator, QRP, QSO, radio, spy radio, vacuum tube 1 min read

It’s been a long time since vacuum tubes were cutting-edge technology, but that doesn’t mean they don’t show up around here once in a while. And when they do, we

Single Flex PCB Folds into a Four-Wheel Rover, Complete with Motors

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Single Flex PCB Folds into a Four-Wheel Rover, Complete with Motors

March 25, 2023 Dan Maloney 6 ViewsBLDC, brushless, ESP32, flex, pcb, pcb motor, pic, robot, rotor, rover, stator 1 min read

You’ve got to hand it to [Carl Bugeja] — he comes up with some of the most interesting electromechanical designs we’ve seen. His latest project is right up there, too:

Clever Mechanism Powers This All-Mechanical Filament Respooler

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Clever Mechanism Powers This All-Mechanical Filament Respooler

March 25, 2023 Dan Maloney 7 Viewscardboard, filament, gear, rack, sector, spool, transmission 1 min read

No matter how far down the 3D printing rabbit hole we descend, chances are pretty good that most of us won’t ever need to move filament from one spool to

3D-Printed Parts Don’t Slow Down This Speedy Printer

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3D-Printed Parts Don’t Slow Down This Speedy Printer

March 21, 2023 Dan Maloney 9 Views3d printer, Benchy, CoreXY, speed, speedboat 1 min read

Truth be told, we generally find speed sports to be a little boring. Whether it’s cars going around in circles for hours on end or swimmers competing to be a

Cheap Camera Gives Clay-Pigeon’s-Eye View of Trap Shooting

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Cheap Camera Gives Clay-Pigeon’s-Eye View of Trap Shooting

March 14, 2023 Dan Maloney 12 Viewsclay pigeon, drone, keychain camera, POV, shooting, shotgun, target, trap shooting 1 min read

Speaking from experience, it’s always fun to build something with the specific intention of destroying it. Childhood sessions spending hours building boats from scrap wood only to take them to

Powercore Aims to Bring the Power of EDM to Any 3D Printer

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Powercore Aims to Bring the Power of EDM to Any 3D Printer

March 7, 2023 Dan Maloney 18 Views3d printer, arc, cnc, desktop manufacturing, EDM, electric discharge machining, machining, plasma, subtractive manufacturing 1 min read

The desktop manufacturing revolution has been incredible, unleashing powerful technologies that once were strictly confined to industrial and institutional users. If you doubt that, just look at 3D printing; with

Displaying the Time is Elemental With This Periodic Table Clock

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Displaying the Time is Elemental With This Periodic Table Clock

March 7, 2023 Dan Maloney 20 ViewsChemistry, clock, ds1307, elements, neopixel, periodic table, rtc, ws2812b 1 min read

We see a lot of clocks here at Hackaday, so many now that it’s hard to surprise us. After all, there are only so many ways to divide the day

TRS-80 Model 100 Inspires Cool Cyberdeck Build, 40 Years Down the Line

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TRS-80 Model 100 Inspires Cool Cyberdeck Build, 40 Years Down the Line

March 4, 2023 Dan Maloney 27 Viewscyberdeck, laptop, model 100, radxa, trs-80 1 min read

The TRS-80 Model 100 was a strange beast. When it debuted in 1983, it resembled nothing that was available at the time, and filled a gap between desktop computers and

Hackaday Podcast 178: The Return of Supercon, Victory for Open Source, Exquisite Timepieces, and Documentation to Die For

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Hackaday Podcast 206: Busted Crypto Killed the Queen, Kicad’s New Clothes, Peer Inside the Sol 20

February 17, 2023 Dan Maloney 47 Viewspodcast 2 min read

Under the weather though they both were, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney got together to take a look under the covers of this week’s best and brightest

Hackaday Links: July 10, 2022

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Hackaday Links: February 12, 2023

February 12, 2023 Dan Maloney 46 ViewsAIM-9X, balloon, carpal, ChatGPT, cyborg, hackaday links, hand, infinity, machining, metacarpal, military aviation, phalanges, r/counting, radio, reddit, shootdown, sidewinder, sla, terminator, token 4 min read

So, maybe right now isn’t the best time to get into the high-altitude ballooning hobby? At least in the US, which with the downing of another — whatever? — over