Have you ever wanted to create your own battery charge? You might find this project by Peter Hayles interesting. This cheap and easy to build NiCd/NiMH Battery Charger is suitable for automatically ...

When we saw [Max.K]’s automatic NiMh battery charger float past in the Hackaday tips line, it brought to mind a charger that might be automatic in the sense that any modern microcontroller based ...

The increasing dominance of lithium cells in the market place leave our trusty NiMH cells in a rough spot. Sure, you can still get a chargers for the AAs in your life, but it’s old tech and not ...

Readers had a variety of suggestions for the best way to upgrade/replace/recycle the old NiCd battery pack from a still-usable Makita drill. I asked the folks at battery pack designer Nexergy to read ...