While often seen as a specialist instrument, digital calipers are actually easy to use and allow both enthusiastic amateurs and professionals to work and measure with much greater precision than can ...

When it comes to woodworking, or any kind of construction, the golden rule is “measure twice, cut once.” The fool’s rule is the inverse, “measure once, cut twice.” When you sit down to do your ...

You might wonder why [Kevin] wanted to build digital calipers when you can buy them for very little these days. But, then again, you are reading Hackaday, so we probably don’t need to explain it. The ...

With 3D printed arms of fixed measurements, the depth reading from a set of digital calipers can be used to calculate the radius of a curve. Specialized tools that focus on one particular job tend to ...

The project utilizes a cheap digital caliper and a microcontroller kit to create the digital read out that uses the information from the calipers to display the current position of the cutting toll on ...

While they can be used to take reasonably accurate measurements over a distance, it can be a big mistake to use a measuring tape for more precise measurements of smaller items. In these cases, you may ...