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https://hackaday.com/2022/11/06/a-pi-pico-oscilloscope/ | A Pi Pico Oscilloscope | Jenny List | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"adc",
"oscilloscope",
"Raspberry Pi Pico"
] | At the budget end of the oscilloscope range lie the so-called pocket ‘scopes. About the size of a deck of cards, they combine a microcontroller and an LCD screen to make an instrument with a bandwidth in the tens of kilohertz and a not-too-sparkling performance. They’re something of a toy, but then again, if all that’s... | 40 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528939",
"author": "Ø",
"timestamp": "2022-11-06T21:22:30",
"content": "Anything that helps lower the barriers in regarding to “f@#&ing around and finding out” is a good thing.Especially when it comes to electronics where someone who’s only getting their feet wet can’t justify eith... | 1,760,372,506.198349 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/06/conducting-plastic-can-replace-metal/ | Conducting Plastic Can Replace Metal | Al Williams | [
"Science"
] | [
"conductive polymer",
"conductor",
"plastic",
"polymer"
] | The University of Chicago has announced they have created a material that
behaves like plastic but conducts like metal
. They also say they don’t fully understand why it works yet. Usually, good conductors like metals have very orderly atomic structures, something that plastics tend not to have.
The material is based o... | 45 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528875",
"author": "Mystick",
"timestamp": "2022-11-06T18:09:43",
"content": "“The material is based on nickel, carbon, and sulfur.”So… it’s an otherwise mundane metallic alloy with novel properties of malleability at room temperature?“…researchers report you can deform the materia... | 1,760,372,506.122855 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/06/mini-ultrasonic-levitation-kit-is-an-exercise-in-sound-minimalist-design/ | Mini Ultrasonic Levitation Kit Is An Exercise In Sound Minimalist Design | Abe Connelly | [
"ATtiny Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"attiny85",
"levitation",
"open source hardware",
"ultrasonic",
"ultrasound"
] | For those that haven’t heard, ultrasonic levitation is a process by which two or more ultrasonic transducers are set opposite to each other and excited in such a way as to create a standing wave between them. The sound is, as the name implies, ultrasonic — so outside the range of human hearing — but strong enough so th... | 20 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528841",
"author": "Yveaux",
"timestamp": "2022-11-06T16:18:34",
"content": "The MAX232 is driving the ultrasound transmitters, not the USB interface.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6529151",
"author": "Abe Connelly"... | 1,760,372,506.008215 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/supercon-is-on-join-us/ | Supercon Is On! Join Us! | Elliot Williams | [
"cons",
"News"
] | [
"2022 Hackaday Prize",
"2022 Hackaday Supercon"
] | Supercon is in high gear, after a full day of badge hacking that went well into the midnight hour. Now it’s time for the talks!
If you’re not here in person, you can still get in on the talks by
following the 2022 Hackaday Supercon Livestream,
which will be covering all the LACM stage action.
We have a great lineup of ... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528507",
"author": "Muth",
"timestamp": "2022-11-05T16:35:22",
"content": "Can’t wait!As I never remember, PDT is UTC-7 :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6528605",
"author": "Elliot Williams",
"timestamp": "2... | 1,760,372,506.045983 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/the-seven-segment-display-thats-also-an-input-device/ | The Seven-Segment Display That’s Also An Input Device | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"7 segment",
"74hc165",
"arduino",
"AS3144",
"duodecimal",
"hall effect",
"hexadecimal",
"seven segment"
] | We’re used to seeing all manner of seven-segment displays, be they mechanical, electronic, or something in between. But what all these displays have in common is that they’re, you know, displays. Using them as inputs would just be crazy talk, right?
Perhaps, but we like where [
Dave Ehnebuske
] is going with
“InSlide,”... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528579",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-11-05T20:38:30",
"content": "And let it output in Morse Code!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,372,506.235619 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/garage-door-opener-ejection-seat/ | Garage Door Opener Ejection Seat | Jonathan Bennett | [
"car hacks",
"Misc Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"Big Red Button",
"garage door opener"
] | [Scott Prints] had a familiar problem. His garage door opener was boring, and rattled around annoyingly in his car’s center console. This was obviously a major issue that needed to be dealt with. His solution was to install an ejector seat.
Er, well, an ejector seat button
. At least, that’s what it’s labeled. (That’s ... | 16 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528424",
"author": "Antron Argaiv",
"timestamp": "2022-11-05T11:20:28",
"content": "Needs a guard to prevent inadvertent ejection :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6528580",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known A... | 1,760,372,506.339902 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/pieca-is-a-pi-camera-with-some-very-nice-lenses/ | Pieca Is A Pi Camera With Some Very Nice Lenses | Jenny List | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"leica",
"Raspberry Pi HQ camera",
"removable lens"
] | The advent of the high-quality version of the Raspberry Pi camera has given experimenters a good-enough quality camera system that they can use it to create better devices than mere snapshot cameras. It’s been used by experimenters for some exciting projects, but so far, very few of them have broken away from the Pi ca... | 24 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528382",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2022-11-05T08:25:10",
"content": "I really like the simplicity of the design (big triangle) it seems really usable and well thought out. For example the USB stick located in the cover and the way the display is tilted. The explanation of the ... | 1,760,372,506.536453 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/04/keyboard-one-is-an-ear-of-corne/ | Keyboard One Is An Ear Of Corne | Kristina Panos | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"alice",
"Corne",
"keyboard",
"monoblock",
"stagger"
] | There are all kinds of avenues into the mechanical keyboarding hobby, and one of the more well-traveled ones runs between coworkers. [crsayen] aka [DrJamesOIncandenza] has one such relationship, and was turned on to the CRKBD a while back by an office mate. For the uninitiated, that’s short for Corne keyboard, which is... | 16 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528439",
"author": "Mat",
"timestamp": "2022-11-05T12:30:10",
"content": "There is no spacebar….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6528476",
"author": "toddmok",
"timestamp": "2022-11-05T14:45:20",
"cont... | 1,760,372,506.285482 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/04/hackaday-prize-2022-ultratower-is-a-powerful-gardening-vertical/ | Hackaday Prize 2022: Ultratower Is A Powerful Gardening Vertical | Kristina Panos | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2022 Hackaday Prize",
"hydroponics",
"piezo",
"ultrasonic"
] | The more people we have on this planet, the more food we need. Naturally, this extends to water, another precious resource that generally plays a part in farming and food production. And honestly, we’d probably all eat
a little better if it were really easy to grow healthy things like spinach. Well, that excuse doesn’t... | 29 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528286",
"author": "Chaemelion",
"timestamp": "2022-11-05T02:24:59",
"content": "Hmm. I like the concept, but I’d be afraid that the plants will need more than pure water, and whatever nutrients dissolved in the water will eventually build up a crusty deposit on the disk or clog th... | 1,760,372,506.408884 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/04/plywood-bicycle-makes-frame-building-more-accessible/ | Plywood Bicycle Makes Frame Building More Accessible | Navarre Bartz | [
"cnc hacks",
"green hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"bicycle",
"bicycle frame",
"bike",
"cnc",
"DIY bicycle",
"open source bicycle",
"openbike",
"wooden bicycle",
"wooden bike"
] | Bike frames are simple on the surface, but can quickly become complicated if you want to fabricate one yourself. Brazing and welding tend to be less common skills than knowing how to bolt things together, so [Arquimaña] has brought us the
OpenBike
to make the process accessible to more people.
An open-source set of fil... | 37 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528227",
"author": "John R Guy",
"timestamp": "2022-11-04T23:24:05",
"content": "This has a big flaw in my mind: The lack of a horizontal connection between the rear hub and the the bottom bracket makes all the force of braking transfer across a torque arm to the frame. This missin... | 1,760,372,506.478924 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/06/supercon-sunday-check-the-live-stream/ | Supercon Sunday: Check The Live Stream | Elliot Williams | [
"cons",
"News"
] | [
"2022 Hackaday Supercon"
] | Supercon is entering the final phase: it’s Sunday! But it’s not over yet: there is a
phenomenal lineup of talks
today, starting at 9:30 AM PST, and we’re
streaming the main stage live
from the very beginning until the badge-hacking awards ceremony at 5:30 pm. And if you’d like to join in the conversation, head over to ... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528846",
"author": "cmholm",
"timestamp": "2022-11-06T16:39:30",
"content": "Next year, I’ll know to sign up for workshops. The list looks awesome.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,372,506.583362 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/wall-art-with-a-moving-coil-or-two/ | Wall Art With A Moving Coil Or Two | Jenny List | [
"Art"
] | [
"artwork",
"display",
"moving coil. meter"
] | Almost every type of retro indicator technology from a Nixie tube to a flipdot with everything else in between has found itself on these pages in some form of artwork or decoration. It’s pleasing then to see one that hasn’t appeared so much over the years, and particularly at the hands of our colleague [Voja Antonic]. ... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528742",
"author": "Garth Bock",
"timestamp": "2022-11-06T08:26:56",
"content": "Would have been nice to have a video posted. Nice way to show off the classic panel meter. Gives me an idea to something similar except have mine in a row that gradually light up like the Krell panel d... | 1,760,372,506.900745 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/hackaday-prize-2022-meet-the-winners-of-this-years-competition/ | Hackaday Prize 2022: Meet The Winners Of This Year’s Competition | Tom Nardi | [
"cons",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2022 Hackaday Prize",
"2022 Hackaday Supercon",
"awards ceremony",
"Hackaday Prize"
] | This year, the
2022 Hackaday Prize
challenged hackers and makers in the open source community to develop projects which evoked the concepts of
Sustainability, Resiliency, and Circularity
— ideas which perhaps have never been more important. As humanity works to become better stewards to the only planet they can call ho... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528690",
"author": "John Opsahl",
"timestamp": "2022-11-06T04:19:50",
"content": "Congrats to this year’s winners. Congrats to everyone else who competed and through sheer force of will turned their idea into a prototype.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,372,506.950069 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/when-only-a-to92-will-do/ | When Only A TO92 Will Do | Jenny List | [
"Parts"
] | [
"through hole",
"TO92",
"transistor"
] | As through-hole components are supplanted by their surface-mount equivalents, we’re beginning to see the departure of once-common component form factors. Many such as the metal can transistors became rare years ago, while others still hang on albeit in fewer and fewer places. One of these is the once-ubiquitous TO92 mo... | 17 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528673",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2022-11-06T03:11:44",
"content": "Most TO-92 transistors are side collector, but if you’re willing to go with center collector I don’t see the need for the PC board since it should be possible to fixture the leads and solder a SOT-23 or SC-... | 1,760,372,507.002349 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/creating-your-alarm-on-the-fly/ | Creating Your Alarm On The Fly | Matthew Carlson | [
"clock hacks",
"Software Development"
] | [
"alarm clock",
"audio streaming",
"php",
"web development"
] | We suspect that most of us who use an alarm clock have our particular sound memorized. Common choices are annoying beeping, energetic marimbas, or what used to be your favorite song (which you have now come to despise). [Adam Kumpf] wanted a more pleasant alarm clock and came up with
WakeSlow, an alarm clock audio stre... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528685",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.1",
"timestamp": "2022-11-06T03:56:09",
"content": "When I need to get up, I use this free to air wireless streaming service that also plays music and tells me the weather and traffic.However, when it comes to perfect self hacked alarm clocks, you can... | 1,760,372,507.081394 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/nanoassembly-with-water/ | Nanoassembly With Water | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"3d printing",
"nanotechnology"
] | Water is sometimes known as the universal solvent. But researchers at Harvard want to use water to
put things together
instead of taking them apart. Really small things. In the video below, you can see a simple 3D-printed machine that braids microscopic fibers.
The key appears to be surface tension and capillary action... | 4 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528576",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-11-05T20:31:30",
"content": "Now, let’s see a twisted pair!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6528608",
"author": "Ghent The Slicer",
... | 1,760,372,507.039053 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/the-great-resistor/ | The Great Resistor Embiggens The Smallest Value | Dave Walker | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"hardware",
"LED Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"arduino nano",
"color code",
"neopixel",
"oled",
"resistor",
"ws2812"
] | With surface-mount components quickly becoming the norm, even for homebrew hardware, the resistor color-code can sometimes feel a bit old-hat. However, anybody who has ever tried to identify a random through-hole resistor from a pile of assorted values will know that it’s still a handy skill to have up your sleeve. Wit... | 29 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528517",
"author": "Georg",
"timestamp": "2022-11-05T17:04:39",
"content": "Ooooooooohmmm…….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6528577",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-11-05T... | 1,760,372,507.148285 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/just-how-fast-could-you-charge-an-iphone/ | Just How Fast Could You Charge An IPhone? | Arya Voronova | [
"Battery Hacks",
"iphone hacks",
"Phone Hacks"
] | [
"iphone",
"Lithium-ion battery",
"Lithium-titanate battery",
"supercapacitor"
] | An iPhone 8, now a relatively cheap model, can charge its battery fully in two hours’ time. There’s hardly ever a need for faster charging, but it’s fair to ask –
how much faster could it really go?
[Scotty Allen] from [Strange Parts], back after a hiatus, is back to stretching the limits of what a regular iPhone can d... | 23 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527719",
"author": "battery",
"timestamp": "2022-11-04T03:10:23",
"content": "not bad… I bet some super capacitor could do the same capacity in 1 second",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6527786",
"author": "Ian",
"timest... | 1,760,372,507.241387 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/turbo-button-pays-charming-homage-to-early-personal-computers/ | Turbo Button Pays Charming Homage To Early Personal Computers | Chris Wilkinson | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"retrocomputing",
"seven segment display",
"turbo button"
] | The PC turbo button and LED clock speed display were common features on early personal computers. Wanting to add a little retro chic to his modern battle-station, [Matthew Frost] assembled a
charming and functional homage to the turbo button control panel
.
In days past, this automotive nomenclature implied a performan... | 33 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527673",
"author": "Ryan Flowers",
"timestamp": "2022-11-04T01:02:05",
"content": "When I got my first PC – a 286/12- in 1989, I often ran it at 8 MHz with the turbo button OFF because I was worried that running it on Turbo would burn it out! I was 13… had no idea. Also had no idea... | 1,760,372,507.406671 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/led-diffusers-confusing-organize-a-practical-contest/ | LED Diffusers Confusing? Organize A Practical Contest | Arya Voronova | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"diffuser",
"LED Diffuser"
] | We all want a nice and shiny LED strip that doesn’t actually look like it consists of individual LEDs – a bar of uniform light is just that much more attractive. There’s all kinds of diffusion options available out there, but they can be confusing – sometimes you’d just like to know, which one is better? If there’s one... | 8 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527620",
"author": "Matt",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T23:19:31",
"content": "Diffusers are great for if you want your lights to look pretty in the dark, but really diminish peak brightness making them visible from a much shorter range in daylight.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth"... | 1,760,372,507.282171 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/3-dof-robot-arm-wrist-without-the-motor-weight/ | 3-DOF Robot Arm Wrist Without The Motor Weight | Danie Conradie | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"bowden",
"robot arm",
"stepper motor"
] | A major challenge of robotic arms is the weight of the actuators, especially closer to the end of the arm. The long lever arm means more torque is required from the other actuators, and everything flexes a bit more. To get around this,
[RoTechnic] moved the wrist stepper motors off the arms entirely
.
He built a push-p... | 15 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527492",
"author": "Dude",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T19:24:40",
"content": "Yes, but the point is lost because of the flexibility of the bowden cables, which is apparent at the end of the video where he simply touches the gimbal and it moves a quarter turn. Any load on the arm will ... | 1,760,372,507.335152 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/m-2-for-hackers-connectors/ | M.2 For Hackers – Connectors | Arya Voronova | [
"computer hacks",
"Featured",
"how-to",
"laptops hacks",
"Skills",
"Slider"
] | [
"M.2",
"m2"
] | In
the first M.2 article,
I’ve described real-world types and usecases of M.2 devices, so that you don’t get confused when dealing with various cards and ports available out there. I’ve also designed quite a few M.2 cards and card-accepting adapters myself. And today, I’d like to tell you everything you need to know in... | 10 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527398",
"author": "pavelsorejs",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T17:21:26",
"content": "This is awesome – especially the LCSC links and hints – rally saved me a lot of time",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6527640",
"author": "Nev... | 1,760,372,507.459646 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/say-no-to-obsolescence-wire-up-your-house-with-fiber/ | Say No To Obsolescence, Wire Up Your House With Fiber | Arya Voronova | [
"home hacks",
"internet hacks"
] | [
"fiber optics",
"home networking",
"sfp"
] | These days, if you wire your house with anything less than gigabit, you might end up throttling your Internet connection. If you wired things up using two pairs per device back in 100BASE-T days, however, you’ll want to redo your cabling before you buy new switches. Now, some of us are already starting to equip ourselv... | 105 | 36 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527303",
"author": "Shirley Marquez",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T15:38:11",
"content": "Pulling fiber to every room would be a bit too expensive for me right now, and most of the cable drops aren’t going to need more than gigabit for a while yet. But I probably will switch over to fi... | 1,760,372,507.798882 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/moca-networking-is-a-niche-solution-for-coax-lovers/ | MoCA Networking Is A Niche Solution For Coax Lovers | Lewin Day | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Network Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"cable TV",
"coaxial",
"coaxial cable",
"coaxial networking",
"moca",
"moca network",
"moca networking"
] | When it comes to networking these days, the vast majority of our devices are connected wirelessly. Beyond that, we’re all familiar with the Cat 5 and Cat 6 cables that form the high-capacity Ethernet networks in our homes, schools, and offices.
It’s only if you go back to the very dawn of Ethernet that coaxial cables a... | 63 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527239",
"author": "josemonkey",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T14:05:08",
"content": "I wanted to run a wired backhaul for my mesh network to a 2nd story bedroom in the far corner of the house that wasn’t wired for ethernet. I was unsure how to do it until I remembered I had a completel... | 1,760,372,508.071335 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/end-of-an-era-as-lego-to-discontinue-mindstorms/ | End Of An Era, As LEGO To Discontinue Mindstorms | Jenny List | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"end of life",
"lego mindstorms",
"mindstorms"
] | When there are so many single board computers and other products aimed at providing children with the means to learn about programming and other skills, it is easy to forget at time before the Arduino or the Raspberry Pi and their imitators, when a computer was very much an expensive closed box.
Into this late-’90s vac... | 46 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527140",
"author": "Foldi-One",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T11:18:05",
"content": "Very sad, its a great concept. That said I doubt its really going anywhere, they will keep making the motors and technic parts for everything else and the community that has created so many pi/Arduino t... | 1,760,372,507.876939 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/heirloom-knife-will-carve-pumpkins-for-years-to-come/ | Heirloom Knife Will Carve Pumpkins For Years To Come | Kristina Panos | [
"Holiday Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"carving",
"jigsaw",
"knife",
"maple",
"pumpkin",
"pumpkin carving",
"walnut"
] | Halloween may be behind us, but that just means that we’ve reached the best time to buy pumpkins. After all, it’s still fall, and there are pies to be made and tables to be decorated. Why should carved-up pumpkins be restricted to spooky season?
The only problem is that it’s 2022, and we’re still expected to use those ... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527146",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T11:28:15",
"content": "Hack-o-lantern!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6527245",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T14:14:17",... | 1,760,372,508.111061 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/roll-the-radioactive-dice-for-truly-random-dd-play/ | Roll The Radioactive Dice For Truly Random D&D Play | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"autunite",
"dice",
"geiger",
"pseudorandom",
"radioactivity",
"random number generator",
"rng",
"uranium"
] | When you have a bunch of people gathered around a table for a “Dungeons & Dragons” session, you have to expect that things are not always going to go smoothly. After all, people who willingly create and immerse themselves in an alternate reality where one bad roll of the dice can lead to the virtual death of a characte... | 22 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526973",
"author": "Ian",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T05:15:30",
"content": "How am I supposed to teach this thing to roll well if I can’t intimidate it by smashing bad dice with a hammer?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6527028... | 1,760,372,508.422004 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/your-car-has-driving-profiles-heres-how-to-change-them/ | Your Car Has Driving Profiles – Here’s How To Change Them | Arya Voronova | [
"car hacks",
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"driving profile",
"hex editor"
] | Just like mobile phones of yesteryear, modern cars have profiles. They aren’t responsible for the sounds your car produces, however, as much as they change how your car behaves – for instance, they can make your engine more aggressive or tweak your steering resistance. On MQB platform cars, the “Gateway” module is resp... | 24 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526975",
"author": "Misterlaneous",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T05:21:20",
"content": "A steering: ON setting implies that they can turn steering:OFF",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6526999",
"author": "Erik T",
... | 1,760,372,508.213367 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/simple-wi-fi-cat-door-solves-the-extra-critter-problem-and-nothing-more/ | Simple Wi-Fi Cat Door Solves The Extra Critter Problem, And Nothing More | Dan Maloney | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"cat",
"cat door",
"Critter",
"ESP2866",
"feline",
"lock",
"rack and pinion",
"stepper"
] | Anyone with an outdoor cat in their life knows their propensity for bringing home offerings, in the form of critters in various stages of the process of becoming ex-critters. And anyone with a hacker in their life knows that there’s a tendency to throw technology at this problem. But sometimes, the simplest solutions a... | 11 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526886",
"author": "Mark Alex Maidique",
"timestamp": "2022-11-03T01:47:39",
"content": "Poor guy. Hope the cat comes back!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6527162",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
... | 1,760,372,508.157103 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/low-voltage-dc-network-build-incited-by-solar-panels/ | Low-Voltage DC Network Build Incited By Solar Panels | Arya Voronova | [
"green hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"battery",
"dc",
"dc power",
"dc ups",
"green power",
"home solar",
"low voltage",
"power",
"power grid",
"pv solar",
"solar",
"ups"
] | Nowadays, some people in Europe worry about energy prices climbing, and even if all the related problems disappear overnight, we’ll no doubt be seeing some amounts of price increase. As a hacker, you’re in a good position to evaluate the energy consuming devices at your home, and maybe even do something about them. Wel... | 56 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526799",
"author": "Deneteus (@Deneteus)",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T20:12:48",
"content": "48V is what the cell sites are using these days. I need to setup something like this for a neighborhood watch project.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,508.302769 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/laser-project-relies-on-steppers-rather-than-galvanometers/ | Laser Projector Relies On Steppers Rather Than Galvanometers | Dan Maloney | [
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"ESP32",
"laser",
"projector",
"STSPIN220",
"X-Y"
] | Laser light shows have always been real crowd-pleasers. There’s just something about the frenetic movement of a single point of intensely bright light making fluid animations that really captures the imagination. Large-scale laser shows require a lot of gear, of course, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get in on the fun... | 29 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526777",
"author": "robertrapplean",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T18:51:01",
"content": "An excellent description of how he built it, but I’d like to see what its performance characteristics are. Is it adequately precise for engraving, or does it suffer from having to be programmed in ... | 1,760,372,508.365825 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/04/three-computers-one-keyboard-with-usb-triplexer/ | Three Computers, One Keyboard With USB Triplexer | Jenny List | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"analog multiplexer",
"kvm",
"usb"
] | Many of us will have the problem of several computers on the same desk, and to avoid clutter we’ll use a KVM switch to share the peripherals. [The Turbanned Engineer] has an interesting solution to this problem in the form of
a USB triplexer
. It’s a device that routes USB data lines depending upon which of its connect... | 25 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528167",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2022-11-04T20:09:40",
"content": "Hi Jenny, it seems from the linked article that the B type ports go to the computers and the A ports are where peripherals are plugged in (seems to be backwards in your description)",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,372,508.483894 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/04/3d-printed-newtonian-telescope-has-stunning-looks-hadley-breaks-the-bank/ | 3D Printed Newtonian Telescope Has Stunning Looks,HadleyBreaks The Bank | Ryan Flowers | [
"Space",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"3D printed parts",
"newtonian",
"telescope"
] | Have you ever considered building your own telescope? Such a project can be daunting, especially if you grind your own mirrors. But with a 3D printer, hardware store bits and bobs, and some inexpensive pre-made mirrors, you too can be the proud owner of your very own own
Hadley — a 114/900mm Newtonian Telescope
that ca... | 49 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528127",
"author": "magic",
"timestamp": "2022-11-04T18:36:24",
"content": "You mispelled “hardly”. It’s ridiculous what passes for editing on Hackaday these day’s!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6528136",
"author": ... | 1,760,372,508.843495 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/04/3d-printer-tuning-an-engineering-approach/ | 3D Printer Tuning: An Engineering Approach | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printer upgrade",
"Bowden extruder"
] | [MirageC] is a bit of a contrarian. Instead of taking pictures of 3D printed objects that show them in their best light, he takes pictures that show them at their worst. The reason? He wanted to figure out why he was seeing a
strange artifact
in his printer when using a direct extruder. Just at a quick glance, you migh... | 14 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528082",
"author": "mrehorst",
"timestamp": "2022-11-04T16:47:35",
"content": "Very interesting! I sometimes print large, transparent vases and see a wood-grain pattern in the prints when the light shines through them just right. I wonder if that isn’t the same artifact of the Bond... | 1,760,372,508.534845 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/04/this-week-in-security-openssl-fizzle-java-xml-and-nothing-as-it-seems/ | This Week In Security: OpenSSL Fizzle, Java XML, And Nothing As It Seems | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"java",
"openssl",
"protestware",
"This Week in Security"
] | The security world held our collective breaths early this week for
the big OpenSSL vulnerability announcement
. Turns out it’s two separate issues, both related to punycode handling, and they’ve been downgraded to high severity instead of critical. Punycode, by the way, is the system for using non-ASCII Unicode charact... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6528025",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-11-04T15:04:26",
"content": "I have a difficult time understanding the SAML paragraph.I am not blaming it on the author, but more surprised by the convoluted chain it goes through.",
"parent_id": null,... | 1,760,372,508.935122 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/04/thin-client-and-smartphone-step-in-for-3d-printers-raspberry-pi-and-touchscreen/ | Thin Client And Smartphone Step In For 3D Printer’s Raspberry Pi And Touchscreen | Dan Maloney | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"debian",
"dell",
"ender 3",
"intel atom",
"klipper",
"Rufus",
"thin client",
"Wyse",
"X Server"
] | It’s no secret that Raspberry Pi’s are a little hard to come by these days. Unless you had the foresight to stock up before the supply dried up — and if you did, we want to talk to you — chances are good that you’ve got a fair number of projects that use the ubiquitous SBC on indefinite hold. And maybe that’s got you t... | 19 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527922",
"author": "Pietdevries",
"timestamp": "2022-11-04T11:43:44",
"content": "Nice project. I actually used a 3040 for a while as well (without any screen, just running OctoPrint), but I found it to be a bit underpowered. After replacing it with a Pi 4 (removed from another pro... | 1,760,372,508.987907 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/04/adjusting-shelves-like-its-1899/ | Adjusting Shelves Like It’s 1899 | Navarre Bartz | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"adjustable shelving",
"furniture",
"sawtooth shelf",
"sawtooth shelving",
"shelving",
"woodworking"
] | In most modern homes, any adjustable shelves or cabinets have metal shelf pins set inside conveniently spaced holes. Before the accoutrements of modern life, like easily replicated metal parts, you may have found a
sawtooth shelf
doing the same job with just wood.
The system comprises three parts: a series of “sawteeth... | 39 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527914",
"author": "MD",
"timestamp": "2022-11-04T11:36:24",
"content": "I’m resigned to the fact that virtually all articles here require serious editing, but can you not even afford a spell-checker…?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comme... | 1,760,372,509.05865 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/03/walnut-case-sets-this-custom-arduino-powered-rpn-calculator-apart-from-the-crowd/ | Walnut Case Sets This Custom Arduino-Powered RPN Calculator Apart From The Crowd | Dan Maloney | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"calculator",
"cnc",
"reverse polish notation",
"RPN",
"walnut"
] | How many of us have an everyday tool that’s truly unique? Likely not many of us; take a look around your desk and turn out your pockets, but more often than not, what you’ll find is that everything you have is something that pretty much everyone else on the planet could have bought too. But not so if you’ve got
this be... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6527780",
"author": "Ale",
"timestamp": "2022-11-04T05:44:48",
"content": "It is a very nice case, and full size keys, remembers me of the Czerweny calculators.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6527830",
"author": "Truth",
... | 1,760,372,508.888902 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/make-your-pi-moonlight-as-a-security-camera/ | Make Your Pi Moonlight As A Security Camera | Arya Voronova | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"CCTV",
"diy security camera",
"make your own security camera",
"motion detection",
"motioneye",
"motioneyeos",
"security camera"
] | A decade ago, I was learning Linux through building projects for my own needs. One of the projects was a DIY CCTV system based on a Linux box – specifically, a user-friendly all-in-one package for someone willing to pay for it. I stumbled upon Zoneminder, and those in the know, already can tell what happened – I’ll put... | 22 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526762",
"author": "quietfox",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T17:39:25",
"content": "Have RasPi inventory started to recover? I’ve held off on a few things (such as an OctoPi) build because they seem perpetually out of stock",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,372,509.363941 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/keeping-an-eye-on-heating-oil/ | Keeping An Eye On Heating Oil | Bryan Cockfield | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"fuel",
"fuel oil",
"heating",
"home",
"opencv",
"raspberry pi",
"tank",
"webcam"
] | Energy costs around the world are going up, whether it’s electricity, natural gas, or gasoline. This is leading to a lot of people looking for ways to decrease their energy use, especially heading into winter in the Northern Hemisphere. As the saying goes, you can’t manage what you can’t measure, so [Steve] has built
t... | 70 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526703",
"author": "Bill Gates",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T15:36:12",
"content": "How quaint. I wonder if this can be adapted to monitor my supply of whale oil for my lanterns.This whole “electricity” things seems new and scary.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies"... | 1,760,372,509.473018 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/bye-bye-linux-on-the-486-will-we-miss-you/ | Bye Bye Linux On The 486. Will We Miss You? | Jenny List | [
"computer hacks",
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Slider"
] | [
"486",
"linux",
"obsolete hardware"
] | A footnote in the week’s technology news came from Linus Torvalds,
as he floated the idea of abandoning support for the Intel 80486 architecture
in a Linux kernel mailing list post. That an old and little-used architecture might be abandoned should come as no surprise, it’s a decade since the same fate was meted out to... | 90 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526676",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T14:16:59",
"content": "The only reason to support 486 is because of old timer engineers afraid to move with the times. Stability is just an excuse, there are many things out there that are just as stable.",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,372,509.657201 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/3d-printed-rov-is-the-result-of-many-lessons-learned/ | 3D Printed ROV Is The Result Of Many Lessons Learned | Danie Conradie | [
"drone hacks"
] | [
"PixHawk",
"rov",
"submarine"
] | Building an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is always a challenge, and making it waterproof is often a major hurdle. [Filip Buława] and [Piotr Domanowski] have spent four years and 14 prototypes iterating to
create the CPS 5
, a 3D printed ROV that can potentially reach a depth of 85 m.
FDM 3D prints are not... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526640",
"author": "MB",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T11:51:24",
"content": "I wonder if they’ve sprayed the inside with that Dip-it spray rubber stuff. Would that work?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6526665",
"author":... | 1,760,372,509.102564 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/02/what-if-your-day-to-day-devices-were-alive/ | What If Your Day-To-Day Devices Were Alive? | Arya Voronova | [
"green hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"biohacking",
"biowearables",
"slime"
] | We take advantage of a variety of devices in our day-to-day life, and we might treat them as just pieces of hardware, elements fulfilling a certain purpose — forgotten about until it’s time to use them. [Jasmine Lu] and [Pedro Lopes] believe that these relationships could work differently, and
their recent paper
descri... | 9 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526620",
"author": "Ewald",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T08:51:32",
"content": "tamagotchi 2.0",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6526629",
"author": "Peter/DL3PB",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T10:04:47",
"content": "‘… in a w... | 1,760,372,509.523686 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/01/tambour-table-with-a-puzzling-secret/ | Tambour Table With A Puzzling Secret | Navarre Bartz | [
"Games",
"home hacks"
] | [
"furniture",
"Interactive Furniture",
"lathe",
"metal lathe",
"puzzle",
"puzzles",
"simone giertz",
"table",
"tambour"
] | Some people really like puzzles. [Simone Giertz] is one of these serious puzzle lovers and
built a transforming table
(YouTube) to let her easily switch between puzzles and more mundane tasks, like eating.
While there are commercial solutions out there for game tables with removable tops and simpler solutions like hing... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526587",
"author": "DrewTheMachinist",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T05:32:21",
"content": "That is true meticulousity and grand complication in table design. I love this so much. I have had this exact problem where a huge puzzle took over my kitchen table for months and we ended up not... | 1,760,372,509.707096 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/01/dana-sibera-creates-devices-that-dont-exist/ | [Dana Sibera] Creates Devices That Don’t Exist | Arya Voronova | [
"Art"
] | [
"3D render",
"imagined devices",
"render",
"retrocomputing"
] | [Dana Sibera], known as
[@NanoRaptor] on Twitter,
makes us wonder about devices that could have been, and wince about devices that must never see the light of day – summoned into existence by her respectable photo editing and 3D modeling skills. Ever wanted to see
a Model M with a small green-tinted CRT
built into its ... | 43 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526575",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T04:14:51",
"content": "Mag safe SCSI with bits of steel wool and shraf. Scuzzy looking. That’s a laugh! Power to burn things up.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6526586",... | 1,760,372,509.787935 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/31/need-an-usb-i2c-adapter-use-your-pico/ | Need An USB-I2C Adapter? Use Your Pico! | Arya Voronova | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"i2c",
"I2C oled",
"Raspberry Pi Pico",
"rp2040"
] | Given its abundance and simplicity, the RP2040 has no doubt become a favourite for USB peripheral building – in particular, USB-connected tools for electronics experiments. Today, we see one more addition to our Pico-based tool arsenal –
a USB-I2C adapter firmware for RP2040
by [Renze Nicolai]. This is a reimplementati... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526120",
"author": "zoobab",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T15:38:33",
"content": "DirtyJTAG has now a Pico port, and an openocd port (testers are welcomed, contact me if you want to help):https://github.com/jeanthom/DirtyJTAGhttps://github.com/zoobab/openocd-dirtyjtag2",
"parent_id"... | 1,760,372,509.839968 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/31/moving-big-stuff-without-the-tears/ | Moving Big Stuff Without The Tears | Jenny List | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Skills",
"Slider"
] | [
"heavy equipment",
"how to move heavy equipment",
"lifting",
"moving"
] | It’s something that has probably happened to more than one of us over the years, there’s an unmissable opportunity at the machinery auction or on eBay, with the small snag that it weighs a ton and requires a flatbed truck to transport. A big lathe, a bandsaw, or the like.
The sensible option would be to hire a crane or... | 104 | 37 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526105",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.3",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T14:24:41",
"content": "PET or HDPE bottles/jugs have a fairly low coefficient of friction on a lot of surfaces… this means that if you can jack or lever something heavy just a little off the ground, and stuff a flattened b... | 1,760,372,509.991499 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/31/a-single-watt-hydroponic-lighting-system/ | A Single-Watt Hydroponic Lighting System | Bryan Cockfield | [
"green hacks"
] | [
"deep water culture",
"efficiency",
"energy",
"growing",
"hydroponics",
"lm301b",
"one watt",
"pepper",
"plant",
"samsung",
"single watt"
] | Hydroponic systems are an increasingly popular way to grow plants indoors using a minimum of resources. Even some commercial farming operations are coming online using hydroponic growing techniques, as these methods consume much less water, land area, and other resources than traditional agricultural methods. The downs... | 24 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526073",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T11:51:11",
"content": "Nice performance.Maybe looking into spectrum absorption pattern of individual species and pulsed light is the next step she should look into.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
... | 1,760,372,510.882416 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/31/3d-printed-heat-exchanger-uses-gyroid-infill-for-cooling/ | 3D Printed Heat Exchanger Uses Gyroid Infill For Cooling | Danie Conradie | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"heat exchanger",
"metal 3d printing",
"powder bed printer"
] | 3D printing allows the physical manufacturing of some unique geometries that are simply not possible with other processes. If you design around these strengths, it is possible to create parts that significantly outperform more conventional alternatives. With this in mind [Advanced Engineering Solutions] created a
metal... | 33 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526056",
"author": "BT",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T09:32:47",
"content": "A very readable guide to gyroids for anyone like me who was unfamiliar with them, from a 3D printing point of view:https://makerindustry.com/gyroid-infill",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies"... | 1,760,372,510.063014 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/30/trinocular-lens-makes-digital-wigglegrams-easier-to-take/ | Trinocular Lens Makes Digital Wigglegrams Easier To Take | Dan Maloney | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"digital",
"GIF",
"lens",
"parallax",
"photography",
"photoshop",
"wigglegram"
] | Everyone likes a good animated GIF, except for some Hackaday commenters who apparently prefer to live a joyless existence. And we can’t think of a better way to celebrate moving pictures than with
a 3D printed trinocular camera
that makes digital Wigglegrams a snap to create.
What’s a Wigglegram, you say?
We’ve seen th... | 13 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526041",
"author": "Shirley Marquez",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T06:59:47",
"content": "“disposable 35 mm film cameras — are those still a thing?” Yes, they are. Kodak, Fujifilm, and Ilford still make them, though availability can be limited. Kodak and Ilford even make black and whit... | 1,760,372,510.112815 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/30/stop-silicone-cure-inhibition-no-fancy-or-expensive-products-required/ | Stop Silicone Cure Inhibition, No Fancy Or Expensive Products Required | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"acetone",
"acrylic",
"casting",
"cure inhibition",
"PMMA",
"resin molds",
"silicone"
] | Casting parts in silicone is great, and 3D printing in resin is fantastic for making clean shapes, so it’s natural for an enterprising hacker to want to put the two together: 3D print the mold, pour in the silicone, receive parts! But silicone’s curing process can be inhibited by impurities. What’s cure inhibition? It’... | 16 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526017",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T03:38:04",
"content": "I’ve tried this process it does work. I’ve gotten inhibit-x to work reliably with less steps. I do coat my molds in the pmma solution It smooths out the layer lines. It also makes it easier to pull the sili... | 1,760,372,513.061841 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/30/hackaday-links-october-30-2022/ | Hackaday Links: October 30, 2022 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"c64",
"doom",
"earth music",
"fMRI",
"hackaday links",
"halloween",
"lego",
"mindstorms",
"regex",
"regular expression",
"sferics",
"solar storm"
] | Sad news for kids and adults alike as
Lego announces the end of the Mindstorms line
. The much-wish-listed line of robotics construction toys will be discontinued by the end of this year, nearly a quarter-century after its 1998 introduction, while support for the mobile apps will continue for another couple of years. I... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525992",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T00:01:06",
"content": "The solar audio sounds like Marley (not Bob) is about to visit Scrooge.LEGO, always capitalized, never pluralized.As much as my daughter loved LEGO, I wasn’t able to get her in... | 1,760,372,512.698412 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/01/the-best-threaded-holes-for-resin-parts/ | The Best Threaded Holes For Resin Parts | Danie Conradie | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"cnc kitchen",
"resin printing",
"threaded inserts"
] | Threaded inserts are great for melting into FDM prints with a soldering iron. The process isn’t so simple for resin prints, since they don’t generally soften with heat. Off course, you can also print the threads directly, screw a bolt into an un-threaded hole, or tap a hole. Following his usual rigorous testing process... | 21 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526347",
"author": "schobi",
"timestamp": "2022-11-01T08:35:03",
"content": "Good work – thanks!I’m a little surprised about the absolute numbers. A single M3 bolt in PLA will hold more than twice my weight?For comparison, a Fischer Dübel for fixing a screw into drywall board of 1/... | 1,760,372,513.00115 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/31/an-easy-to-make-pi-powered-pocket-password-pal/ | An Easy-To-Make Pi-Powered Pocket Password Pal | Arya Voronova | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"bitwarden",
"password management",
"password manager"
] | Sometimes, we see a project where it’s clear – its creator seriously wants to make a project idea accessible to newcomers; and today’s project is one of these cases. The
BYOPM
– Bring Your Own Password Manager, a project by [novamostra] – is a Pi Zero-powered device to carry your passwords around in. This project takes... | 16 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526315",
"author": "ian 42",
"timestamp": "2022-11-01T06:02:35",
"content": "well, that seems complete processor overkill when all it is doing is remembering passwords… And takes a minute to boot? Hilarious.. 8266 anyone? Or a esp32 s2 if you want usb otg…",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,372,513.191621 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/31/infinitely-scrolling-e-ink-landscape-never-repeats/ | Infinitely Scrolling E-Ink Landscape Never Repeats | Danie Conradie | [
"Art"
] | [
"digital picture frame",
"e-ink display",
"image generator"
] | Traditional Chinese landscape scrolls can be a few dozen feet long and require the viewer to move along its length to view all the intricate detail in each section. [Dheera Venkatraman] replicated this effect with an
E-Ink picture frame
that displays an infinitely scrolling, Shan Shui-style landscape that never repeats... | 52 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526289",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2022-11-01T02:34:54",
"content": "No video of it in action who then cares.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6526292",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2022-11-01T02:57:... | 1,760,372,512.796414 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/31/lighting-up-glue-stick-bicycle-tyres-with-rgb/ | Lighting Up Glue Stick Bicycle Tyres With RGB | Danie Conradie | [
"LED Hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"bicycle tire",
"RGB LED",
"the q"
] | Being visible to motorists is a constant concern for cyclists, but we doubt [The Q] will have this problem with his
RGB LED illuminated tires
made from glue sticks.
The project started with a set of 3D-printed tire molds that bolt to the standard wheels. A bot of melted glue sticks is poured into the mold, allowed to c... | 28 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526234",
"author": "Wyrm",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T23:05:18",
"content": "That’s fantastic. It’s a shame that the wheels are made from hot glue, it’d probably melt where I live. I would love to have something like this to make myself visible on my rides to work.",
"parent_id":... | 1,760,372,512.941193 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/31/3d-printed-strain-wave-gearbox/ | 3D Printed Strain Wave Gearbox | Danie Conradie | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"harmonic drive",
"NEMA17",
"strain wave gear"
] | 3D-printed gearboxes are always an interesting design challenge, especially if you want to make them compact. [ZeroBacklash] created a little
strain wave gearbox
(harmonic drive) for when you want to trade speed for torque on NEMA 17 stepper motors.
Strain wave gears work by deforming a stationary flexible spline into ... | 19 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526189",
"author": "Dj Biohazard",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T20:11:58",
"content": "That video screams “You have selected Microsoft Sam as the computer’s default voice.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6526222",
"autho... | 1,760,372,512.64985 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/31/dropping-marbles-with-millisecond-accuracy/ | Dropping Marbles With Millisecond Accuracy | Danie Conradie | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"ball drop",
"marble machine",
"wintergatan"
] | The road to the perfect marble dropper
[Martin] of the band [Wintergatan] is on his third quest to build the ultimate musical marble machine, and that means dropping marbles with maximum reliability and precision timing. Working through several iterations, and returning to first principles, he engineered a marble gate ... | 40 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526175",
"author": "MM",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T19:03:52",
"content": "Interesting experiments.I wonder about the orientation of the sensor, which is at an angle of approx 45 degrees wrt the speed vector of the ball (which is vertical). Any horizontal speed component of the ball ... | 1,760,372,513.141505 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/31/europes-energy-squeeze-pushes-large-hadron-collider-to-halt-operations/ | Europe’s Energy Squeeze Pushes Large Hadron Collider To Halt Operations | Lewin Day | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Science",
"Slider"
] | [
"cern",
"large hadron collider",
"lhc",
"nuclear research",
"physics"
] | Energy prices have been in the news more often than not lately, as has war. The two typically go together, as conflicts tend to impact on the supply and trade of fossil fuels.
With Europe short on gas and its citizens contemplating a cold winter, science is feeling the pinch, too.
CERN has elected to shut down the Larg... | 45 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526144",
"author": "Myself",
"timestamp": "2022-10-31T17:35:47",
"content": "This seems to add very little info beyond what was already in the Hackaday Links roundup, October 23. Is there new news to add?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"co... | 1,760,372,513.276855 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/01/the-many-ways-you-can-easily-ruin-your-pcb-antenna-design/ | The Many Ways You Can Easily Ruin Your PCB Antenna Design | Maya Posch | [
"how-to",
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"pcb antenna",
"PCB design"
] | PCB antenna impaired by copper fill and other attenuation sources.
We have all seen Printed Circuit Board (PCB) antennas: those squiggly bits of traces on PCBs connected often to a Bluetooth, WiFi or other wireless communication chip. On modules like for the ESP8266 and ESP32 platforms the PCB antennas are often integr... | 28 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526555",
"author": "NoWay Jose",
"timestamp": "2022-11-02T00:38:30",
"content": "You forgot to mention that holding wrong is another no no.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6526558",
"author": "Col. Panek",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,372,512.876799 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/01/reproducing-vinyl-records-in-resin/ | Reproducing Vinyl Records In Resin | Navarre Bartz | [
"Laser Hacks",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"Evan and Katelyn",
"glow",
"glow in the dark",
"glow in the dark vinyl",
"laser cutter",
"phonograph",
"resin casting",
"vinyl",
"Vinyl Record"
] | While most are just plain, vinyl records can be found in a variety of colors, shapes, and some even glow in the dark. [Evan and Katelyn] decided to spruce up a plain old record by
replicating it in bright, glow-in-the-dark resin
.
By first making a silicone mold of the vinyl record and then pouring several different co... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526539",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2022-11-01T22:05:16",
"content": "Reminds me of my childhood when I made a balloon powered hovercraft disc from one of grandma’s old records and glue & a spool of thread. The instructions were printed in a comic magazine.. Ah, hood times! ... | 1,760,372,513.32669 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/01/plywood-lamp-has-customizable-light-output/ | Plywood Lamp Has Customizable Light Output | Navarre Bartz | [
"home hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"lamps",
"lighting",
"plywood",
"woodwork",
"woodworking"
] | There’s something about light fixtures that attracts makers like moths to a flame. [danthemakerman] wanted something with a more configurable light output and built this
Sculptural and Customizable Plywood Lamp
.
In his detailed build log, [danthemakerman] describes how he wanted something “sort of like an analog dimma... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526503",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2022-11-01T19:12:09",
"content": "That would make a great Shabbat lamp.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6526524",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "... | 1,760,372,513.545519 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/01/linux-fu-easy-vms/ | Linux Fu: Easy VMs | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Linux Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"linux"
] | It wasn’t long ago that we looked at easily creating Docker containers from the command line so you could just easily spin up a virtual environment for development. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do the same for virtual machines? You can. Using
Multipass
from Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, you can easily spin up vi... | 34 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526466",
"author": "Jeff Karney",
"timestamp": "2022-11-01T17:26:55",
"content": "It’s called Vagrant and has been around for years. Is Canonical becoming Apple?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6526472",
"author": "So... | 1,760,372,513.614569 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/01/exploring-piston-engine-design-with-lego/ | Exploring Piston Engine Design With LEGO | Danie Conradie | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"air engine",
"lego technic",
"radial engine"
] | When learning about the design of a machine or mechanism, reading and watching videos is certainly effective, but it’s hard to beat hands-on experimentation. In the video after the break, [Brick Technology] uses LEGO to gain some practical insight into the
world of piston engine design
, from single-cylinder all the wa... | 16 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526462",
"author": "hasge",
"timestamp": "2022-11-01T17:06:51",
"content": "One has to be insane to pay for overpriced bits of ABS plastic when food prices are up 150-200% year to year and some foods became scarce because of economic hardship.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": ... | 1,760,372,513.671631 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/01/identify-that-antenna-by-sight/ | Identify That Antenna By Sight | Jenny List | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Radio Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"antennas",
"radio",
"wavelength"
] | It’s a skill that radio amateurs pick up over years but which it sometimes comes as a surprise to find that is not shared by everyone, the ability to casually glance at an antenna on a mast or a rooftop and guess what it might be used for. By which of course I mean not some intuitive ability to mentally decode radio si... | 75 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526413",
"author": "12AU76L6GC",
"timestamp": "2022-11-01T14:40:15",
"content": "I always like telling baby engineers that antennas don’t have gain. At best they have loss but can focus the remaining power with directionality.Also ask them to get me me a quote and vendor for an iso... | 1,760,372,513.948809 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/01/deltapen-drawing-painting-and-taking-notes-without-the-drawing-tablet/ | DeltaPen: Drawing, Painting And Taking Notes Without The Drawing Tablet | Maya Posch | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"DeltaPen",
"drawing tablet"
] | Over the decades, a lot of attempts have been made to try and make pens and pencils “smart”. Whether it’s to enable a pen to also digitally record what we’re writing down on paper, to create fully digital drawings with the haptics of inks and paints, or to jot down some notes on a touch screen, past and present uses ar... | 24 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6526369",
"author": "shod",
"timestamp": "2022-11-01T11:25:01",
"content": "Looks like that lab version of the first mouse, not exactly that finished product look is it?And I LOLed at that squiggly drawing which suddenly had that perfect shading.Anyway, what I guess I”m saying is th... | 1,760,372,513.830965 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/30/zif-hdds-dying-out-heres-an-open-source-1-8-ssd/ | ZIF HDDs Dying Out? Here’s An Open-Source 1.8″ SSD | Arya Voronova | [
"computer hacks",
"laptops hacks",
"Repair Hacks",
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"bga",
"nand",
"NAND flash",
"ssd",
"zif"
] | A lot of old technology runs on parts no longer produced – HDDs happen to be one such part, with IDE drives specifically being long out of vogue, and going extinct to natural causes. There’s substitutes, but quite a few of them are either wonky or require expensive storage medium. Now, [dosdude1] has turned his attenti... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525959",
"author": "tj",
"timestamp": "2022-10-30T21:22:04",
"content": "Neat! Looks like he’s got a decent DIY SMD workflow going there. But as I heard the remark “long and tedious process”, referring to populating all those passives, I must recommend a hybrid approach. Why not us... | 1,760,372,513.99982 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/30/garmin-hud-got-discontinued-but-not-trashed/ | Garmin HUD Got Discontinued, But Not Trashed | Donald Papp | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"gps hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"ESP32",
"gps",
"heads up display",
"hud",
"vfd"
] | The Garmin HUD+ was a small Bluetooth device intended for the dashboard of a car, meant to be used as a GPS heads-up display for data from Garmin smartphone apps. It used a bright VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) which was viewed through a clear reflector, and displayed GPS information and directions. It was discontinu... | 10 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525985",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2022-10-30T23:29:19",
"content": "He could have just used an old phone to keep it running but this is more creative.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6526059",
"author": "A... | 1,760,372,514.241319 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/30/playing-with-the-power-of-full-g-code-control/ | Playing With The Power Of Full G-Code Control | Danie Conradie | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d slicing",
"fullcontrol",
"gcode"
] | Slicing software needs to maintain a balance between ease-of-use and control, while handling handle any STL file you throw at it. If you eliminate the need to convert an existing 3D model, and create G-Code directly, you gain a lot of design freedom, at the cost of increased design effort. By taking advantage of this f... | 5 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525893",
"author": "jpa",
"timestamp": "2022-10-30T16:24:53",
"content": "For a library called FullControl, it seems to give very little control. Maybe more will be published later, but for now it seems to be just a few quite limited demos.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,372,514.041782 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/30/recreating-the-stuck-throttle-problem-on-a-toyota/ | Recreating The “Stuck Throttle” Problem On A Toyota | Bryan Cockfield | [
"News"
] | [
"computer",
"ecu",
"emf",
"emp",
"fly-by-wire",
"memory fault",
"safety",
"stuck",
"throttle",
"toyota"
] | A few years ago, Toyota was in the news for a major safety issue with a number of their passenger vehicles. Seemingly at random, certain cars were accelerating without concern for driver input, causing many crashes and at least 37 confirmed deaths. They issued recalls both for the floor mats which were reported to have... | 68 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525832",
"author": "Louloulou",
"timestamp": "2022-10-30T11:15:47",
"content": "I RE’d the Mazda Speed ECU. They used two microprocessors. The larger one, A 32bit SH4, to manage the throttle position, and another (MCS9) that has a “Killswitch” to the throttle motor. If either MC... | 1,760,372,514.195135 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/30/super-8-film-editor-reborn-as-a-youtube-terminal/ | Super 8 Film Editor Reborn As A YouTube Terminal | Navarre Bartz | [
"ARM",
"Cyberdecks",
"hardware",
"home entertainment hacks",
"Raspberry Pi",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"film",
"Hanimex E300 Dual Editor",
"ortholinear keyboard",
"Raspberry Pi 4",
"retrofuturism",
"retrofuturistic",
"super 8",
"terminal",
"terminal video",
"vintage",
"vintage camcorder",
"vintage camera",
"ytfzf"
] | We love hacks that give new life to old gadgets, and [edwardianpug]’s
YouTube Terminal
certainly fits the bill by putting new hardware inside a Super 8 film editor.
[edwardianpug] could have relegated this classy-looking piece of A/V history to a shelf for display, but instead she decided to refresh its components so i... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525814",
"author": "Jon H",
"timestamp": "2022-10-30T09:03:47",
"content": "“Lest you think that this “ruined” a working piece of retro-tech, [edwardianpug] says that 20 minutes would get this device back to watching old movies”FYI there’s currently 24 film editors listed on the Go... | 1,760,372,514.090382 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/29/pi-based-spectrometer-gets-an-upgrade/ | Pi-based Spectrometer Gets An Upgrade | Dave Walker | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Science",
"Software Development"
] | [
"opencv",
"raspberry pi",
"spectrometer",
"spectrometry",
"spectroscope"
] | Here at Hackaday, we love to see projects re-visited and updated after we’ve covered them on the site. It’s always exciting to see what the creators come up with next, and this
Pi-Based Spectrometer
project is a great example of that.
[LesWright] found himself with a problem when the new version of Raspberry Pi operati... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525810",
"author": "JanW",
"timestamp": "2022-10-30T08:21:57",
"content": "What a nice build!One thing I wonder about is the calibration method.Why the manual clicking on specific peaks (inducing another ammount of uncertainty), if the software already knows the exact values of tho... | 1,760,372,514.409964 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/29/all-your-pixels-are-probably-not-belong-to-pantone/ | All Your Pixels Are (Probably Not) Belong To Pantone | Jenny List | [
"News"
] | [
"color",
"colour",
"intellectual property",
"Pantone"
] | There’s a piece of news floating around the open IP and allied communities at the moment which appears to have caused some consternation. It comes from Adobe, who have announced that due to an end of their licensing deal with Pantone LLC,
PSD images loaded into Photoshop will have pixels containing unlicensed Pantone c... | 80 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525771",
"author": "Mr Name Required",
"timestamp": "2022-10-30T02:46:05",
"content": "Just another good reason I don’t use subscription software.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6525796",
"author": "Jennifer Gunn",
... | 1,760,372,514.36263 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/29/welding-aluminum-with-a-mig-welder/ | Welding Aluminum With A MIG Welder | Al Williams | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"aluminium",
"MIG Welding"
] | Steve Martin had a bit that was like a fake infomercial where he says, “You can be a millionaire and never pay taxes!” The instructions were, “First, get a million dollars. Then,…” [Brandon’s] instructions for how to
convert your MIG welder to do aluminum
for under $25 is not quite like that, but you do need the right ... | 37 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525770",
"author": "The Gambler",
"timestamp": "2022-10-30T02:44:29",
"content": "i’ve seen this tried before and it has to many fails in any actual useage. Al wire is just to soft and eventually/sooner rather than later ends up just gumming up somewhere along the line. just do i... | 1,760,372,514.478836 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/29/using-the-sun-to-turn-epoxy-into-furniture/ | Using The Sun To Turn Epoxy Into Furniture | Navarre Bartz | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"epoxy",
"furniture",
"heat forming"
] | Epoxy resins have been used to make some pretty cool furniture, but since it’s still a relatively new material, makers are still discovering new techniques to work with resin. [Cam] from Blacktail Studio may be the first person to
bend fully cured epoxy
using nothing but a form and the power of the sun.
Inspired by a f... | 16 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525723",
"author": "Tom Brusehaver",
"timestamp": "2022-10-29T20:13:44",
"content": "This technique is well known in the composite aircraft and boat building area.Epoxy can gain strength with “post curing”, heating the epoxy after it cures. People will wrap structures in black garb... | 1,760,372,514.532701 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/29/play-doom-on-seven-segment-displays/ | PlayDOOMOn Seven-Segment Displays | Bryan Cockfield | [
"classic hacks",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"display",
"doom",
"monitor",
"python",
"raspberry pi",
"screen",
"seven segment"
] | Getting
DOOM
to run on a computer it was never meant to run on is a fun trope in the world of esoteric retro computers. By now we’ve seen it run on everything from old NES systems to microwaves, treadmills, and basically anything with a computer inside of it. What we don’t often see are the displays themselves being se... | 12 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525720",
"author": "daniel v.",
"timestamp": "2022-10-29T19:28:16",
"content": "I love projects from the category “why would you do it? because we can!”. Very nice object and great execution!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6... | 1,760,372,514.649372 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/29/hackaday-supercon-back-at-last/ | Hackaday Supercon: Back At Last! | Elliot Williams | [
"cons"
] | [
"newsletter"
] | I’m unashamed to admit that I’ve really missed in-person hacker conferences over the last two and a half years. And while we’re not out of the water yet, COVID-wise, things are controlled and controllable enough that we felt we could safely hold our smallish, halfway out in the back-alley conference safely. It’s going ... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525691",
"author": "Adrian M Zeffert",
"timestamp": "2022-10-29T15:15:46",
"content": "I have asked twice: Where is Ssd’s upercon bring bnb held??????Lots of comments on the content but no address, hotel information no transportation guidance!!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth"... | 1,760,372,514.77553 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/29/3d-printer-slicing-in-the-manufacturing-world/ | 3D Printer Slicing In The Manufacturing World | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"slicing"
] | It is no secret that the way you build things in your garage is rarely how big companies build things at scale. But sometimes new techniques on the production floor leak over to the hobby builder and vice versa, so it pays to keep an eye on what the other side is doing. Maybe that was the idea behind [Carolyn Schwaar’s... | 10 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525681",
"author": "Robby",
"timestamp": "2022-10-29T14:33:36",
"content": "The fancy commercial slicers really are terrible. I use Cura at home, and have used the Stratasys GrabCAD slicer at work, the former is far better, the latter insists on dreadfully over-strength support str... | 1,760,372,514.60487 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/29/gutting-and-upgrading-laser-chiller-with-no-chill/ | Gutting And Upgrading Laser “Chiller” With No Chill | Arya Voronova | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"chiller",
"K40",
"K40 laser cutter",
"lasercutter",
"water fountain"
] | Getting a cheap CO2 laser cutter is great for your workshop needs, and while you might get a weaker-than-declared laser tube, it’s still going to cut whatever you need to be cut. That might not be the case for the cooling equipment you’re getting alongside it, however, as [RealTimeKodi] shows in
a post-project blogpost... | 10 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525644",
"author": "CRJEEA",
"timestamp": "2022-10-29T09:23:26",
"content": "I wonder how well an old refrigerator pump style dehumidifier would do. Just using the cold side, no doubt you’d be able to get the coolant pretty cold.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replie... | 1,760,372,514.90093 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/you-can-now-bootstrap-your-amiga-without-a-floppy-with-this-one-weird-trick/ | You Can Now Bootstrap Your Amiga Without A Floppy With This One Weird Trick | Lewin Day | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"amiga",
"amigaxfer",
"bootstrap",
"bootstrapping",
"retrocomputing",
"workbench"
] | Traditionally, most Amigas were intended to boot from a floppy disk. . An Amiga can readily make its own boot floppy, but only once it’s already booted up. If you don’t have a floppy ready to go, you’re out of luck, as PCs can’t readily make them for Amigas.
[Roc] whipped up the amigaXfer bootstrapping method to solve ... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525648",
"author": "Miguel",
"timestamp": "2022-10-29T10:04:47",
"content": "You may probably see [enhanced] amiga replicas such as A1100 soon!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6525709",
"author": "Stappers",
"... | 1,760,372,514.846306 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/luigis-mansion-first-person-mod-brings-spooky-new-perspective/ | Luigi’s MansionFirst Person Mod Brings Spooky New Perspective | Drew Littrell | [
"Games",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"fps",
"halloween",
"nintendo",
"ROM hack",
"video game"
] | The Nintendo GameCube in many ways defied expectations. It was purple, it had buttons shaped like beans, and it didn’t launch with a Mario game. What we got instead was the horror-adjacent ghost adventure game starring Mario’s brother —
Luigi’s Mansion
. The game was a graphical showpiece for the time, however, the cam... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525668",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-10-29T13:05:49",
"content": "Inre: Title Photo (IOW, off topic)Is that monitor sitting on the remains of a motorcycle?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": ... | 1,760,372,514.940688 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/driving-three-color-e-paper-pricetags-with-an-arduino/ | Driving Three-Color E-Paper Pricetags With An Arduino | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"display",
"e-ink price tag",
"e-paper",
"ESP32"
] | ePaper pricetags are becoming popular parts in the hacker community as a cheap way into tinkering with the technology. [Aaron Christophel] got his hands on a 4.4″ model with red, black, and white colors,
and set about programming an ESP32 to drive the price tag instead.
The protocol the display uses was reverse-enginee... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525586",
"author": "RobHeffo",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T23:22:32",
"content": "What I wanna know is did those pricetag designers leave any passives for the rest of us??!? It looks like an Intel designed mainboard!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,372,514.996627 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/real-tractor-moonlights-as-farming-simulator-controller/ | Real Tractor Moonlights As Farming Simulator Controller | Drew Littrell | [
"Games"
] | [
"controller mod",
"diy usb controller",
"farm",
"tractor",
"video game"
] | Around October, amid all the pumpkin spiced food and beverages, folks make their yearly pilgrimage to a local farm. They load themselves onto hay-filled tractor trailers and ride out in search of the perfect pumpkin to put on the front porch, and let it slowly decompose. The “closest” a video game has come to replicati... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525630",
"author": "Mr Name Required",
"timestamp": "2022-10-29T06:36:51",
"content": "Wrong brand, I know, but for a truly authentic simulation shouldn’t it run Doom?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6525670",
"author... | 1,760,372,515.124203 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/mini-mars-rover-runs-on-pi-pico-w/ | Mini Mars Rover Runs On Pi Pico W | Lewin Day | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"Pi Pico W",
"robot",
"rover"
] | NASA’s Mars Rovers are robots that have inspired many budding engineers around the world. [Nikodem Bartnik] had a particular fondness for them himself, and set out to build
a miniature version of his very own.
The Raspberry Pi Pico W is the brains of the operation, serving as both microcontroller and remote wireless li... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525528",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T18:54:07",
"content": "Fun project, but I’m pretty sure those Mecanum omniwheels would fare very poorly indeed on Mars.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6525565",
"au... | 1,760,372,515.166766 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/cursive-out-loud-dealing-with-dragons/ | Cursive Out Loud: Dealing With Dragons | Kristina Panos | [
"Featured",
"Interest"
] | [
"communication",
"dictation",
"speech to text"
] | When we last left this broadening subject of handwriting, cursive, and moveable type, I was threatening to sing the praises of speech-to-text programs. To me, these seem like the summit of getting thoughts committed to what passes for paper these days.
A common thread in humanity’s tapestry is that we all walk around w... | 21 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525517",
"author": "Andy Pugh",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T17:59:56",
"content": "I recall a documentary about this subject, probably last century.It ended with the phrase “Who knows, some time in the future we may be able to get a machine to wreck a nice beach” (cut to toy excavato... | 1,760,372,515.274968 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/hackaday-podcast-191-researchers-parse-starlink-switches-sense-muscles-and-lft-plays-the-commodordion/ | Hackaday Podcast 191: Researchers Parse Starlink, Switches Sense Muscles, And LFT Plays The Commodordion | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Staff Writer Dan Maloney get together for a look at everything cool under the hardware-hacking sun.
Think you need to learn how to read nerve impulses to run a prosthetic hand? Think again — try spring-loaded plungers and some Hall effect sensors. What’s Starlink saying? W... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525766",
"author": "Sam",
"timestamp": "2022-10-30T02:15:02",
"content": "“multilaterate” is the word you’re looking for Elliot.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6526102",
"author": "Elliot Williams",
"timestam... | 1,760,372,515.214397 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/esp8266-web-server-saves-60-power-with-a-1-ms-delay/ | ESP8266 Web Server Saves 60% Power With A 1 Ms Delay | Donald Papp | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"ESP8266",
"low power",
"microcontroller",
"web server"
] | Arduino has a library for quickly and easily setting up a simple web server on an ESP8622-based board, and [Tomaž] found that
power consumption on an ESP-01 can be reduced a considerable amount by simply inserting a 1 ms delay in the right place
. The reason this works isn’t because of some strange bug or oddball featu... | 42 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525471",
"author": "Ken",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T15:43:26",
"content": "This reminds me of reports years ago about how Linux was much more power efficient/longer battery life and ran cooler than the same hardware under windows.The difference was (as I recall) was that windows jus... | 1,760,372,515.464274 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/this-week-in-security-ios-openssl-and-sqlite/ | This Week In Security: IOS, OpenSSL, And SQLite | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"ios",
"openssl",
"sqlite",
"This Week in Security"
] | Earlier this week, a new release of iOS rolled out,
fixing a handful of security issues
. One in particular noted it “may have been actively exploited”, and was reported anonymously. This
usually means that a vulnerability was discovered in the wild
, being used as part of an active campaign. The anonymous credit is in... | 13 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525482",
"author": "ONV",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T16:04:42",
"content": "“The password is dead, long live the passkey. You may have heard of Passkey, the new standard from Microsoft, Apple, and Google. It’s the death of the password that we’ve been promised for so long. So how doe... | 1,760,372,515.525714 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/nvidia-power-cables-are-melting-this-may-be-why/ | NVIDIA Power Cables Are Melting, This May Be Why | Arya Voronova | [
"computer hacks",
"News"
] | [
"12VHPWR",
"crimp connectors",
"NVIDIA",
"overheating"
] | NVIDIA has recently released their lineup of 40-series graphics cards, with a novel generation of power connectors called 12VHPWR. See, the previous-generation 8-pin connectors were no longer enough to satiate the GPU’s hunger. Once cards started getting into the hands of users, surprisingly, we began seeing pictures o... | 57 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525409",
"author": "wibble",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T11:02:45",
"content": "exasperated, eh? !",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6525411",
"author": "Arya Voronova",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T11:07:53",
... | 1,760,372,515.678332 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/28/gesture-controlled-filming-gear-works-super-intuitively/ | Gesture Controlled Filming Gear Works Super Intuitively | Lewin Day | [
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"automation",
"camera slider",
"filming rig",
"node.js",
"robot"
] | Shooting good video can be an arduous task if you’re working all by yourself. [Pave Workshop] developed a series of gesture-responsive tools to help out,
with a focus on creating a simple intuitive interface.
The system is based around using a Kinect V2 to perceive gestures made by the user, which can then control vari... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525497",
"author": "fho",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T16:26:02",
"content": "Impressive project! Feels like there is a missed chance to automatically zoom exactly to where the fingers are pointing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id":... | 1,760,372,515.764132 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/27/a-steam-engine-for-empty-beer-cans/ | A Steam Engine For Empty Beer Cans | Al Williams | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"steam engine"
] | If Hero — the ancient Greek inventor — had been able to enjoy a beer after work, he might have pulled a trick like [BevCanTech] did: use it to
create a simple steam engine
. Of course, we aren’t sure why it has to be a beer can, but even with a soda can there is a fundamental problem: the can is open, assuming you’ve a... | 10 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525368",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T05:16:36",
"content": "Hackaday must be really struggling for things to post.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6525377",
"author": "Manfred",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T0... | 1,760,372,515.72526 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/27/a-collection-of-websites-that-look-like-desktops/ | A Collection Of Websites That Look Like Desktops | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"internet",
"os",
"web",
"website"
] | Web design has come a long way since those halcyon days of Web 1.0. There are plenty of rules about how to make a clean and efficient website, but sometimes it’s more fun to throw them out and just be creative instead. In that vein,
[Simone] has curated a wonderful collection of websites that emulate the computer deskt... | 15 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525356",
"author": "Karl",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T03:18:31",
"content": "https://www.atari.st/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6525494",
"author": "Adrian",
"timestamp": "2022-10-28T16:22:13",
"conte... | 1,760,372,515.579063 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/27/a-solar-supercap-power-supply-to-keep-your-projects-running/ | A Solar Supercap Power Supply To Keep Your Projects Running | Lewin Day | [
"green hacks"
] | [
"solar power",
"supercap",
"supercapactior"
] | Solar garden lights and many other similar trinkets typically rely on cheap rechargeable batteries as a power source when the sun isn’t shining. [Darryl] figured that a supercapacitor could do the job instead,
and set about building a solar supercap power supply that could run various projects.
The power supply is buil... | 16 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525325",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-10-27T23:08:31",
"content": "This project may be just what I am looking for to get my remote weather station working again!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"commen... | 1,760,372,515.881863 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/27/a-homemade-tube-amplifier-featuring-homemade-tubes/ | A Homemade Tube Amplifier Featuring Homemade Tubes | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"amplifier",
"cathode",
"grid",
"plate",
"retro",
"triode",
"tungsten",
"vacuum tube",
"vintage"
] | With the wealth of cheap and highly integrated audio amplifier modules on the market today, it takes a special dedication to roll your own from parts. Especially when those parts include vacuum tubes, and doubly so when
you make the vacuum tubes from scratch
too.
Now, we get it — some readers are going to find it hard ... | 23 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525317",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-10-27T22:39:21",
"content": "“various kinds of oxy-fuel torches, all the right hand tools —”So, lefties are not able to build their own tubes?B^)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
... | 1,760,372,515.827544 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/27/plasma-channel-shows-off-a-remarkably-stylish-fusor/ | Plasma ChannelShows Off A Remarkably Stylish Fusor | Tom Nardi | [
"High Voltage"
] | [
"farnsworth fusor",
"fusor",
"nuclear fusion",
"Plasma Channel"
] | We’ve seen our fair share of Farnsworth–Hirsch fusors over the years — these high-voltage devices can get ions cooking to the point of achieving nuclear fusion even on a hobbyist’s budget, and even though they won’t solve the world’s energy problems, they certainly make for an impressive light show. While “simple” to b... | 19 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525297",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2022-10-27T21:10:26",
"content": "Really cool. I think the white Teflon tape is ok for liquid seals, there’s yellow tape for gas seals (I could be wrong).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id"... | 1,760,372,516.051914 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/27/m-2-for-hackers-expand-your-laptop/ | M.2 For Hackers – Expand Your Laptop | Arya Voronova | [
"computer hacks",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"laptops hacks",
"Skills",
"Slider"
] | [
"4g modem",
"CNVi",
"M.2",
"m2",
"NVMe",
"SDIO",
"ssd"
] | You’ve seen M.2 cards in modern laptops already. If you’re buying an SSD today, it’s most likely an M.2 one. Many of our laptops contain M.2 WiFi cards, the consumer-oriented WWAN cards now come in M.2, and every now and then we see M.2 cards that defy our expectations. Nowadays, using M.2 is one of the most viable way... | 55 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525258",
"author": "sweethack",
"timestamp": "2022-10-27T17:40:18",
"content": "Now waiting for TP M.2 .0 key.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6525281",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2022-10-27T19:51:47"... | 1,760,372,516.153452 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/27/digital-kitchen-spoon-makes-weighing-your-ingredients-a-snap/ | Digital Kitchen Spoon Makes Weighing Your Ingredients A Snap | Dan Maloney | [
"cooking hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"cooking",
"gravimetric",
"kitchen",
"recipe",
"scale",
"strain gauge",
"utensil",
"volumetric"
] | There seem to be two camps when it comes to recipes: those based on volume-based measurements, and those based on the weight of ingredients. Gravimetric measurements have the advantage of better accuracy, but at the price of not being able to quickly scoop out a bit of this and a dash of that. It would be nice to get t... | 14 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525241",
"author": "Foldi-One",
"timestamp": "2022-10-27T16:20:34",
"content": "Seems like an awful execution to me – its a kitchen good which means the spoon part at the very least has to be properly washable, so it really needs to be disconnectable if the whole thing isn’t washab... | 1,760,372,516.205503 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/27/computing-fluidly/ | Computing Fluidly | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Misc Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"fluidics"
] | Computers come in many forms, depending on your definition. We’ve seen computers and computer gates built out of things as diverse as marbles, relays, and — of course — transistors. However, there are logic gate systems that use a property of moving fluids to form logic gates and a bistable element. That’s all the piec... | 20 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525229",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2022-10-27T14:52:24",
"content": "While reading this, I wondered how these techniques could be used to increase the station life of a Venus lander; using some mechanical or fluid logic instead of electronic gat... | 1,760,372,516.268537 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/27/the-wifi-pumpkin-is-the-wifi-pineapple-we-have-at-home/ | The WiFi Pumpkin Is The WiFi Pineapple We Have At Home | Lewin Day | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Security Hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"pentest",
"pentesting",
"wifi"
] | While networking was once all about the Cat 5 cables and hubs and routers, now most of us connect regularly in a wireless manner. Just like regular networks, wireless networks need auditing, and [Brains933] decided to whip up a tool for just that,
nicknaming it the PumpkinPI_3.
The build is inspired by the
WiFi Pineapp... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525215",
"author": "Myself",
"timestamp": "2022-10-27T12:24:04",
"content": "Can the ESP32 run in monitor mode?Can it run firmware that makes it appear as a generic NIC under a larger host, so all those heavyweight tools can run, without having to track down increasingly-scarce Alf... | 1,760,372,516.329057 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/27/comparing-solar-energy-harvesters/ | Comparing Solar Energy Harvesters | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Solar Hacks"
] | [
"battery",
"cell",
"energy",
"energy harvester",
"integrated circuit",
"small",
"solar",
"weather station"
] | There doesn’t have to be much more to setting up a simple solar panel installation than connecting the panel to a battery. Of course we would at least recommend the use of a battery management system or charge controller to avoid damaging the battery, although in a pinch it’s not always strictly necessary. But these si... | 11 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6525200",
"author": "ono",
"timestamp": "2022-10-27T10:31:57",
"content": "another contender is the BQ25570, with its Supercap buffer, works wonder.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6525292",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.3",
... | 1,760,372,516.485601 |
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