Cordless Tool Battery Pack Turned into Portable Bench Supply
Say what you want about the current crop of mass-marketed consumer-grade cordless tools, but they’ve got one thing going for them — they’re cheap. Cheap enough, in fact, that they offer a lot of...
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DIY Power Station Puts Ryobi Batteries to Work
Anyone with a few cordless tools has probably amassed quite a collection of batteries for them. If you’re a professional contractor, having a fleet of batteries you can swap out during the day’s work...
View ArticleHackaday Podcast 056: Cat of 9 Heads, Robot Squats, PhD in ESP32, and Did You...
Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys gab on great hacks of the past week. Did you hear that there’s a new rev of the Pi 4 out there? We just heard… but apparently it’s release into the wild...
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Mobile Power From Cordless Tool Batteries
For years, [Michael Davis] has been using a large lead-acid battery to power the electronic components of his custom Dobsonian telescope; but that doesn’t mean he particularly enjoyed it. The battery...
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Ryobi Power Packs as Ebike Batteries
By now, the process of creating custom lithium-ion battery packs is well-known enough to be within the reach of most makers. But it’s not a path without hazard, and mistakes with battery protection and...
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Boring Belt Sander Is RC Racer In Disguise
As a child, [David Windestal] already knew that a belt sander was the perfect motor for a banging radio-controlled car. Many years later, the realization of that dream is everything he could have hoped...
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Ryobi Battery Hack Keeps CPAP Running Quietly
When it comes to cordless power tools, color is an important brand selection criterion. There’s Milwaukee red, for the rich people, the black and yellow of DeWalt, and Makita has a sort of teal thing...
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