Fellow Hackaday writer [Ethan Zonca] was doing a little bit of woodworking recently and decided to test ammonia fuming on a small piece of oak. Yes, this means discoloring wood with ammonia vapor, and ...

About a decade ago I started a strange little journey in my free time that cut a path across electronics manufacturing from over the last century. One morning I decided to find out how the little ...

The project was created to supply the increasing demand for prototype vacuum tube circuits with additional features such as speakers, output transformers, and LEDs. The project was created to supply ...

The amplifier project utilizes vacuum tubes on the preamplifier section to produce a push pull output stage while using point-to-point connections. Each of the tubes are consuming 940 mA of current ...

When it comes to listening on the best headphones, many hi-fi fans swear by the power of tubes. Amplifiers that use vacuum ...

The venerable vacuum tube is due to take retirement. Though solid-state electronics overtook the venerable vacuum tube more than 60 years ago, more than 200,000 Department of Defense devices use ...

Check out this amazing chess set made by artist Paul Fryer. There were only 7 of these amazing chess sets made, and the pieces light up when plugged in. As you can see from the photos, there are ...

The transistor revolutionized the world and made the abundant computing we now rely on a possibility, but before the transistor, there was the vacuum tube. Large, hot, power hungry, and prone to ...