Is It Time To Retire the TP4056? - The Texas Instruments TP4056 is the default charge-controller chip for any maker o... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/08/is-it-time-to-retire-the-tp4056/ #chargecontroller #lithiumbattery #batteryhacks #bq25185 #tp4056 #parts

Buying Large LiFePO4 Batteries: How Cheap is Too Cheap? - It’s a well-known factoid that batteries keep getting cheaper while capacity incre... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/buying-large-lifepo4-batteries-how-cheap-is-too-cheap/ #lithiumbattery #batteryhacks #teardown #lifepo4

An Open Source Flow Battery - The flow battery is one of the more interesting ideas for grid energy storage – af... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/23/an-open-source-flow-battery/ #rechargeablebatteries #redoxflowbatteries #batteryhacks #flowbattery #3dprinted #science #battery

COTS Components Combine to DIY Solar Power Station - They’re marketed as “Solar Generators” or “Solar Power Stations” but what they are... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/12/cots-components-combine-to-diy-solar-power-station/ #solarinverter #batteryhacks #solarbattery #solarhacks

Save Cells from the Landfill, Get a Power Bank For Your Troubles - A hefty portable power bank is a handy thing to DIY, but one needs to get their ha... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/27/save-cells-from-the-landfill-get-a-power-bank-for-your-troubles/ #lithiumbattery #batteryhacks #rechargeable #lithiumion #powerbank #salvage #diy

Integrated BMS Makes Battery Packs Easy - Lithium technology has ushered in a new era of batteries with exceptionally high e... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/26/integrated-bms-makes-battery-packs-easy/ #lithiumironphosphate #batterymanagement #lithiumbattery #batteryhacks #battery #bms #pcb

Have Li-ion Batteries Gone Too Far? - The proliferation of affordable lithium batteries has made modern life convenient ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/13/have-li-ion-batteries-gone-too-far/ #lithiumbattery #europeanunion #righttorepair #batteryhacks #batteries #design #li-ion #repair #reuse

The Coolest Batteries You’ve Never Heard Of - Imagine cooling your building with the same principle that kept Victorian-era iceh... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/09/the-coolest-batteries-youve-never-heard-of/ #batteryhacks #electricity #greenhacks #battery #cooling #storage #cells #cell #grid #ice

Improving Aluminium-Ion Batteries With Aluminium-Fluoride Salt - There are many rechargeable battery chemistries, each with their own advantages an... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/improving-aluminium-ion-batteries-with-aluminium-fluoride-salt/ #aluminium-ionbattery #lithium-ionbattery #chemistryhacks #batteryhacks

AA Battery Performances Tested, So Get The Most For Your Money - [Project Farm] has a video in which a wide variety of AA cells are analyzed and co... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/10/aa-battery-performances-tested-so-get-the-most-for-your-money/ #batteryhacks #reviews #battery #testing #price #aa

Playing Around with the MH-CD42 Charger Board - If you’ve ever worked with adding lithium-ion batteries to one of your projects, y... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/27/playing-around-with-the-mh-cd42-charger-board/ #batterycharger #batteryhacks #lithiumion #tp4056 #parts

Good Lighting on a Budget with Cordless Tool Batteries - It’s perhaps not fair, but even if you have the best idea for a compelling video, ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/12/good-lighting-on-a-budget-with-cordless-tool-batteries/ #batteryhacks #photography #videography #lighting #battery #dewalt #video

Sniffing Around Inside a ThinkPad Battery - For most people, a battery pack that’s misbehaving simply means it’s time to get a... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/04/sniffing-around-inside-a-thinkpad-battery/ #computerhacks #batteryhacks #batterypack #sniffing #smbbus #i2c

OSHW Battery Tester Aims to Help Tame Lithium Cells - It’s no exaggeration to say that the development of cheap rechargeable lithium-ion... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/03/oshw-battery-tester-aims-to-help-tame-lithium-cells/ #lithium-ionbattery #batterycharger #batterytester #batteryhacks #toolhacks #li-po

Building Experience and Circuits for Lithium Capacitors - For the cautious, a good piece of advice is to always wait to buy a new product un... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/02/building-experience-and-circuits-for-lithium-capacitors/ #chargingprotection #voltageregulator #supercapacitor #supercapacitor #energystorage #batteryhacks #capacitor #embedded #battery #solar

Swapping Batteries Has Never Looked This Cool - We don’t know much more than what we see with [Kounotori_DIY]’s battery loader des... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/29/swapping-batteries-has-never-looked-this-cool/ #batteryhacks #linearslide #3dprinted #battery #cool

Batteries Not Included: Navigating the Implants of Tomorrow - Tinkerers and tech enthusiasts, brace yourselves: the frontier of biohacking has j... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/19/batteries-not-included-navigating-the-implants-of-tomorrow/ #bioelectronicimplant #bioelectronics #wearablehacks #batteryhacks #biohacking #lifehacks #biohybrid #biomedic #battery #implant #news #body

What Happened to Duracell PowerCheck? - Remember Duracell’s PowerCheck? The idea was that a strip built into the battery w... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/09/what-happened-to-duracell-powercheck/ #batterytester #batteryhacks #classichacks #teardown #duracell

Need High-Power Li-Ion Charging? How About 100 W - Ever want a seriously powerful PCB for charging a Li-Ion pack? Whatever you want i... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/04/need-high-power-li-ion-charging-how-about-100-w/ #lithium-ionbattery #lithiumcharging #batteryhacks #usb-cpd #li-ion #parts #liion #usbc

Lithium-Ion Battery Hotswapping, Polarity, Holders - Everyone loves, and should respect, lithium-ion batteries. They pack a ton of powe... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/11/lithium-ion-battery-hotswapping-polarity-holders/ #batteryhacks #featured #skills