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https://hackaday.com/2019/06/14/hackaday-podcast-023-everything-breaks-raspberry-pi-ads-b-hackaday-website-and-automotive-airbags/ | Hackaday Podcast 023: Everything Breaks… Raspberry Pi, ADS-B, Hackaday Website, And Automotive Airbags | Mike Szczys | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"ads-b",
"Arduboy",
"Hackaday Podcast",
"make magazine",
"maker faire",
"Maker Media",
"NES cartridge",
"takata"
] | Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams talk news and great hacks from the past seven days. Sad word this week as Maker Media, the company behind Make Magazine and Maker Faire, have closed their doors. There seems to be a lot of news about broken hardware and software to discuss, with ADS-B problems grounding hundreds of fligh... | 1 | 1 | [
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"comment_id": "6263688",
"author": "DeanD",
"timestamp": "2020-07-16T21:51:09",
"content": "Loving the podcast. Playing through all of them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,373,880.702906 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/13/ledspicer-is-an-open-source-light-controller-for-your-arcade-machine/ | LEDSpicer Is An Open Source Light Controller For Your Arcade Machine | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"arcade",
"arcade cabinet",
"led",
"mame"
] | In this day and age of cheap and easy emulation, it’s more tempting than ever to undertake a home arcade cabinet build. If you want to show off, it’s got to have a light show to really pull the crowds in. To make that easier,
[Patricio] put together a software package by the name of LEDSpicer.
The project came about wh... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156519",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T20:55:00",
"content": "Nice!I originally read that as LED-splicer…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156657",
"author": "sc2charlie@gmail.com",
"timestamp": "2... | 1,760,373,880.503819 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/13/well-built-sentry-gun-addresses-the-menace-of-indoor-micro-uavs/ | Well-Built Sentry Gun Addresses The Menace Of Indoor Micro-UAVs | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2019 Hackaday Prize",
"drone",
"micro UAV",
"nerf",
"opencv",
"pan",
"sentry",
"Tilt",
"turret"
] | What is this world coming to when you can’t even enjoy sitting in your living room without some jamoke flying a drone in through the window? Is nothing sacred? Won’t someone think of the children?
Apparently [Drew Pilcher] did, and the result is
this anti-drone sentry gun
. It’s a sturdily built machine – one might ev... | 21 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156491",
"author": "Mechanicus",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T19:02:23",
"content": "Coolest thing I have seen all month. Maybe all year.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156493",
"author": "John Mullen",
"timestamp": "2019... | 1,760,373,880.761454 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/13/hackaday-superconference-rob-ryan-silva-on-designing-for-developing-environments/ | Hackaday Superconference: Rob Ryan Silva On Designing For Developing Environments | Jenny List | [
"cons",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Superconference",
"developing countries",
"Hackaday Prize"
] | Throughout the six years of the Hackaday Prize we have seen a stream of projects tackling all manner of applications and challenges. Many of them have a goal of addressing issues faced by people in developing countries, and this was
the topic upon which Rob Ryan Silva spoke at the Hackaday Superconference
.
Rob’s persp... | 2 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156541",
"author": "Saabman",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T22:49:16",
"content": "Why is it kids no matter where in the world you are want to break stuff ….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156644",
"author": "Simonious",... | 1,760,373,881.060072 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/13/up-your-game-with-a-battle-tested-input-device/ | Up Your Game With A Battle Tested Input Device | Tom Nardi | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"cockpit",
"flight sim",
"Joystick",
"military",
"teensy 2.0",
"usb hid"
] | If you’re looking to add some realism to your flight setup without converting the guest bedroom into a full-scale cockpit simulator, you might be interested in the compromise [MelkorsGreatestHits] came up with.
He bolted a genuine military keypad to his PC joystick
and instantly added 100% more
Top Gun
to his desktop.
... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156449",
"author": "Rudolph",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T15:39:14",
"content": "I sometimes wonder if people who grow up playing today’s gazillion-button video games end up developing a slightly different brain structure than those of us who grew up with the NES or earlier. I’m not s... | 1,760,373,880.817251 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/13/perovskites-not-just-for-solar-cells-anymore/ | Perovskites: Not Just For Solar Cells Anymore | Dan Maloney | [
"chemistry hacks",
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns",
"News"
] | [
"acceptor",
"bandcap",
"detector",
"donor",
"halides",
"organometallic",
"perovskites",
"pv",
"semiconductor",
"sensor",
"solar cell",
"x-ray"
] | If you’ve been around long enough, you’ll know there’s a long history of advances in materials science that get blown far out of proportion by both the technical and the popular media. Most of the recent ones seem to center on the chemistry of carbon, particularly graphene and nanotubes. Head back a little in time and ... | 21 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156432",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T14:19:33",
"content": "But not as a replacement for the CCD itself.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156444",
"author": "Russel's Teapot",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13... | 1,760,373,880.572565 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/13/self-cleaning-camera-lens-makes-for-speckle-free-video/ | Self-Cleaning Camera Lens Makes For Speckle-Free Video | Richard Baguley | [
"cnc hacks"
] | [
"cnc",
"Cutting and Machining"
] | People making videos about machining have a problem: the coolant gets everywhere. When you take a video to show the process of creating a device, the milky gunk that keeps everything cool gets all over your camera lens. AvE is experimenting with an interesting fix for this problem, with
a self-cleaning camera lens
. (V... | 32 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156382",
"author": "Alexander Wikström",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T11:04:50",
"content": "This here is a good idea.The prototype is a bit wobbly, but as a proof of concept it is fine.Though, his idea of using a gear motor for an electric version might be a bit insufficient.I myself ... | 1,760,373,881.015843 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/13/soicbite-a-program-debug-connector-for-an-soic-test-clip/ | SOICbite: A Program/Debug Connector For An SOIC Test Clip | Ted Yapo | [
"hardware"
] | [
"connector hacks",
"debugging tools",
"SOICbite"
] | The problem is well-known: programming and debug headers consume valuable board space and the connectors cost money. Especially troublesome are the ubiquitous 100-mil pin headers, not because they’re expensive, but because they’re huge, especially along the z-axis. If you’re building miniature devices, these things can... | 40 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156355",
"author": "Paul Stoffregen",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T08:11:05",
"content": "Genius!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156357",
"author": "Digital Corpus",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T08:20:12",
"content": "K.I... | 1,760,373,880.894447 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/18/digital-multimeasure-helps-you-get-the-job-done/ | Digital Multimeasure Helps You Get The Job Done | Lewin Day | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"measurement",
"metrology"
] | In any mechanical field of work, accurate measurement is key to success. [Patrick Panikulam] knows this well,
and decided to build a device that would be useful for some of the more tricky measurement tasks he was encountering.
[Patrick]’s digital multi-functional measurement tool packs a bunch of useful hardware into ... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6157331",
"author": "dave",
"timestamp": "2019-06-18T08:21:34",
"content": "8. 12 mm buzzerExcellent. it will indeed “make the noise”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6157339",
"author": "Electra",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,373,880.949021 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/17/exploring-the-dell-n1108t-on-ethernet-switch/ | Exploring The Dell N1108T-ON Ethernet Switch | Tom Nardi | [
"Network Hacks",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"cross compile",
"networking",
"root",
"serial port",
"Wireguard"
] | In an era where everything seems to be getting “smarter” every year, it will probably come as no surprise to find that even relatively middling networking hardware is now packing advanced features and considerable computational power. A case in point is the Dell N1108T-ON Ethernet switch. Despite only costing around $1... | 24 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6157315",
"author": "fanoush",
"timestamp": "2019-06-18T05:24:18",
"content": "Nice. ouput of ‘cat /proc/cpuinfo’ and meminfo and/or ‘dmesg’ right after boot would tell a lot about what is inside.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id... | 1,760,373,881.124534 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/17/game-builder-lets-kids-even-old-kids-build-games/ | Game Builder Lets Kids — Even Old Kids — Build Games | Al Williams | [
"Games",
"Software Development"
] | [
"game builder",
"game development",
"video game"
] | One rite of passage back in the good old days of owning a TRS-80, Commodore 64, or similar vintage computer was writing your own game. It probably wouldn’t be very good, but it wouldn’t be much worse than most of the stuff that was out there, either. Today, trying to get a kid interested in “hunt the wumpus” is probabl... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6157301",
"author": "Justin",
"timestamp": "2019-06-18T02:27:50",
"content": "Reminds me of RPG maker.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6157313",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2019-06-18T04:45:10",
"content": "H... | 1,760,373,881.17131 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/17/neat-smartish-watch-build-uses-ble/ | Neat Smart(ish) Watch Build Uses BLE | Richard Baguley | [
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"ble",
"smart watch",
"wearable"
] | Digital watches are a pretty neat idea, and are a great way to experiment with designing and building low-power circuits. That’s what [Eric Min] did with this
neat smart watch build
. It’s based around an nRF52832 SoC that does all of the heavy lifting, including connecting to a smartphone to get the time when the batt... | 6 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6157288",
"author": "DisplayType",
"timestamp": "2019-06-18T00:15:40",
"content": "Definitely would like this more with an OLED or something along those lines, but if he’s happy with it that’s all that matters.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,373,881.218855 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/17/modeling-the-classic-555-timer-on-a-breadboard/ | Modeling The Classic 555 Timer On A Breadboard | Tom Nardi | [
"classic hacks",
"Parts"
] | [
"555 timer",
"74ls00",
"lm358",
"model",
"square wave"
] | Over the years, readers have often commented that microcontrollers (or more specifically, the Arduino) are overkill for many of the projects they get used in. The admonition that the creator “Should have used a 555” has become something of a rallying cry for those who think modern electronic hobbyists are taking the ea... | 22 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6157246",
"author": "wz",
"timestamp": "2019-06-17T20:03:17",
"content": "Should have used a 555",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6157356",
"author": "davedarko",
"timestamp": "2019-06-18T11:05:57",
"con... | 1,760,373,881.880371 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/17/diy-raspberry-pi-multi-fx-stomp-box/ | DIY Raspberry Pi Multi FX Stomp Box | Rich Hawkes | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2019 Hackaday Prize",
"guitar pedal",
"midi",
"modep",
"multi effects pedal",
"raspberry pi"
] | From building your own analog effects pedal to processing audio through micro controllers, a lot of musicians love building their own boxes of sound modification. In his entry for the 2019 Hackaday Prize, [Craig Hissett] has a project to build
an all-in-one multi-effects stomp box
.
At the center of the box is a Raspbe... | 3 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6157283",
"author": "reg",
"timestamp": "2019-06-18T00:08:15",
"content": "There are tons of multi fx on the market. What I have not seen but someone must have done by now is to create a fidget that replaces the hex nut that holds the pot in place in an extant effect, and joins it ... | 1,760,373,882.463171 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/17/you-wouldnt-download-a-nuclear-reactor-but-could-you/ | You Wouldn’t Download A Nuclear Reactor, But Could You? | Tom Nardi | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"Science",
"Slider"
] | [
"energy",
"github",
"Nuclear Reactor",
"open hardware",
"open source"
] | By pretty much any metric you care to use, the last couple of decades has been very good for the open source movement. There was plenty of pushback in the early days, back when the only people passionate about the idea were the Graybeards in the IT department. But as time went on, more and more developers and eventuall... | 43 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6157210",
"author": "Cbob",
"timestamp": "2019-06-17T17:21:53",
"content": "Nothing innovative about a MSR this side of the 1960s. And “rudimentary firearm”? Been missing the news much?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6157213"... | 1,760,373,882.420093 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/15/the-smallest-hacker-camps-are-the-most-satisfying-and-you-can-do-one-too/ | The Smallest Hacker Camps Are The Most Satisfying, And You Can Do One Too | Jenny List | [
"cons"
] | [
"CampGND",
"hacker camp",
"Scotland",
"Scottish Consulate"
] | Two of my friends and I crammed into a small and aged European hatchback, drove all day along hundreds of miles of motorway, and finally through a succession of ever smaller roads. We were heading for a set of GPS co-ordinates in the north of Scotland, along with all of our camping gear.
There’s nothing like the hacker... | 10 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156924",
"author": "Saabman",
"timestamp": "2019-06-16T03:46:28",
"content": "so that’s what a Scottish summers day looks like?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156958",
"author": "MM",
"timestamp": "2019-06-1... | 1,760,373,881.935927 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/15/enforce-speed-limits-with-a-rusty-bike/ | Enforce Speed Limits With A Rusty Bike | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"bicycle",
"bike",
"car",
"neighborhood",
"police",
"radar",
"radar gun",
"speed"
] | They say you can’t manage what you can’t measure, and that certainly held true in the case of
this bicycle that was used to measure the speed of cars in one Belgian neighborhood
. If we understand the
translation from Dutch
correctly, the police were not enforcing the speed limit despite complaints. As a solution, the ... | 37 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156899",
"author": "Saabman",
"timestamp": "2019-06-15T23:29:51",
"content": "Some company has convinced our local council to buy a couple of speed display devices – basically a radar with a display of your speed and a smiley face if your below the limit and a sad face if your over... | 1,760,373,882.094345 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/15/open-source-headset-with-inside-out-tracking-video-passthrough/ | Open Source Headset With Inside-Out Tracking, Video Passthrough | Donald Papp | [
"computer hacks",
"Virtual Reality",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"ar",
"Atmos",
"developer kit",
"Extended reality",
"eye tracking",
"hand tracking",
"head tracking",
"inside out tracking",
"virtual reality",
"vr",
"XR"
] | The folks behind the
Atmos Extended Reality (XR) headset
want to provide improved accessibility with an open ecosystem, and they aim to do it with a WebVR-capable headset design that is self-contained, 3D-printable, and open-sourced. Their immediate goal is to release a development kit, then refine the design for a wid... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156873",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2019-06-15T20:10:04",
"content": "I see my vision is forming right before my eyes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156877",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2019-06-15T20:45... | 1,760,373,882.142957 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/15/try-nopscadlib-for-your-next-openscad-project/ | Try NopSCADlib For Your Next OpenSCAD Project | Brian Boucheron | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3D CAD",
"CAD library",
"openscad"
] | Most readers of this site are familiar by now with the OpenSCAD 3D modeling software, where you can write code to create 3D models. You may have even used OpenSCAD to output some STL files for your 3D printer. But for years now, [nophead] has been pushing OpenSCAD further than most, creating some complex utility and pa... | 16 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156894",
"author": "Rob Ward",
"timestamp": "2019-06-15T22:52:17",
"content": "Awesome work NOPhead. Your input to OpenSCAD community is greatly appreciated.Thanks, Rob",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156904",
"author": "M... | 1,760,373,881.733889 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/15/back-to-where-for-most-of-us-it-started-the-intel-8080/ | Back To Where (For Most Of Us) It Started, The Intel 8080 | Jenny List | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"8-bit computers",
"8080",
"Intel 8080"
] | The early history of microprocessors is a surprisingly complex one, with more than one claimant for the prize of being the first, and multiple competing families. That the first commercially available part was the Intel 4004 is a matter of record, but it’s fair to say that few of us will have ever encountered one. Even... | 42 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156809",
"author": "Jonathan Bennett",
"timestamp": "2019-06-15T14:04:47",
"content": "“microporcessor”? :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6157147",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2019-06-17T13:37:43",
... | 1,760,373,882.020968 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/15/surfing-diorama-makes-for-a-neat-desk-toy/ | Surfing Diorama Makes For A Neat Desk Toy | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"desk toy",
"surf"
] | In 1994, Weezer famously said that “
you take your car to work, I’ll take my board”.
Obviously, for the office-bound, surfing is simply out of the question during the working day.
That doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun with a desk toy inspired by the waves.
The crux of the build is a watery diorama, which intera... | 7 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156781",
"author": "Alexander Wikström",
"timestamp": "2019-06-15T11:30:06",
"content": "“An Arduino built into the board monitors a three-axis accelerometer, and sends this information to the Arduino controlling the tank.”Here I can’t help to think how excessively overkill that so... | 1,760,373,882.328845 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/15/a-robotic-whiteboard-cleaner-keeps-the-board-ready-to-go/ | A Robotic Whiteboard Cleaner Keeps The Board Ready To Go | Lewin Day | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"robot",
"whiteboard",
"whiteboard cleaner"
] | Wiping a whiteboard can be a tedious chore. Nobody wants to stick around after a long meeting to clean up, and sensitive information is often left broadcast out in the open. Never fear, though –
this robot is here to help
.
Wipy, as the little device is known, is a robotic cleaner that scoots around to keep whiteboards... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156841",
"author": "WF",
"timestamp": "2019-06-15T16:47:16",
"content": "This would be a lot of fun on an interactive whiteboard with electronic ink.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156845",
"author": "Jan",
... | 1,760,373,882.282152 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/12/magic-record-stand-can-play-your-records-for-you/ | Magic Record Stand Can Play Your Records For You | Lewin Day | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"record",
"vinyl",
"Vinyl Record"
] | Vinyl remains a popular format, despite taking a huge hit in popularity for a couple decades while CDs ruled the roost. It has a charm that keeps it relevant, and likely will continue to do so until everyone who grew up with a record player dies out. In the meantime, [sp_cecamp] has come up with a great way to experien... | 21 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156337",
"author": "Andrea",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T06:22:17",
"content": "I don’t see the point, but it’s cool!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156340",
"author": "Josiah David Gould",
"timestamp": "2019-0... | 1,760,373,882.523309 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/12/he-comes-to-bury-sensors-not-to-praise-them/ | He Comes To Bury Sensors, Not To Praise Them | Al Williams | [
"how-to"
] | [
"heat shrink",
"potting",
"sealant",
"waterproofing",
"weatherproofing"
] | [Adosia] has some interesting videos about their IoT platform controlling self-watering plant pots. However, the video that really caught our eye was the experience in
sealing up sensors
that are going to be out in the field. Even if you aren’t using the exact sensors, the techniques are useful.
We would have expected ... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156302",
"author": "Daren Schwenke",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T02:05:11",
"content": "In the event you don’t have any heat activated adhesive heat shrink laying around, a couple dabs of hot melt glue on the part/joint and slower heating works well too.",
"parent_id": null,
"... | 1,760,373,882.572021 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/12/mechanical-tremolo-does-things-the-old-school-way/ | Mechanical Tremolo Does Things The Old-School Way | Lewin Day | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"guitar",
"guitar effect",
"tremolo"
] | The word “tremolo” has a wide variety of meanings in the musical lexicon. A tremolo effect, in the guitar community at least, refers to a periodic variation in amplitude. This is often achieved with solid state electronics, but also recalls the sounds created by Hammond organs of years past with their rotating Leslie s... | 21 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156274",
"author": "LordNothing",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T23:31:49",
"content": "or do things the black metal way and just play really really fast. i like how some of them can do a four string chord on the up and down stroke 32 times a bar. though this kind of playing requires sup... | 1,760,373,882.849555 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/12/ikea-cloud-lamp-displays-the-weather-with-esp8266/ | IKEA Cloud Lamp Displays The Weather With An ESP8266 | Tom Nardi | [
"LED Hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"openweathermap",
"RGB LED",
"sk6812",
"weather display",
"wemos d1 mini"
] | The IKEA DRÖMSYN is a wall mounted cloud night light that’s perfect for a kid’s room. For $10 USD, it’s just
begging
for somebody to cram some electronics in there and make it do something cool. Luckily for us, [Jodgson] decided to take on the challenge and
turned this once simple lamp into a clever weather display
. I... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156324",
"author": "Adrian",
"timestamp": "2019-06-13T04:24:35",
"content": "For thunderstorms I’d integrate it withhttp://en.blitzortung.org",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156342",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2019... | 1,760,373,882.963348 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/12/the-pianist-octopus/ | The Pianist Octopus | Brian Benchoff | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2019 Hackaday Prize"
] | MIDI has been around for nearly forty years, but what do you do if you have an old ‘toy’ keyboard without MIDI? Or really any way to make it sound good? You could turn it into a player piano, and that’s exactly what [Alessandro] did with an old toy keyboard. It’s The Pianist Octopus, and
it is perhaps the coolest, neat... | 13 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156210",
"author": "Andy Pugh",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T18:44:47",
"content": "Vigintiquattuoropus surely?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156220",
"author": "RB",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T18:59:56",
"content": "V... | 1,760,373,882.775034 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/12/blacksmithing-for-the-uninitiated-your-first-time-at-the-anvil/ | Blacksmithing For The Uninitiated: Your First Time At The Anvil | Jenny List | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"how-to",
"Skills"
] | [
"anvil",
"blacksmith",
"fire",
"forge",
"hammer",
"howto",
"metal",
"metalworking",
"steel"
] | For the past few months we’ve been running this series of
Blacksmithing For The Uninitiated
posts, exploring the art of forge work for a novice. It’s based upon my experience growing up around a working blacksmith’s business and becoming an enthusiastic if somewhat inexpert smith, and so far we’ve spent our time lookin... | 27 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156190",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T17:43:23",
"content": "So, does there come a time where the metal is too fatigued from all the heating and hammering, it needs to be replaced with a fresh piece?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,373,882.919585 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/12/hack-my-wired-heart/ | Hack My Wired Heart | Helen Leigh | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"analog synth",
"artistic pcb",
"berlin",
"music",
"superbooth",
"synthesizer",
"touch sensor"
] | Liner notes? Passé. In Berlin, the release of a special edition synth-wave record came with an accompanying experimental synthesizer called
Wired Heart
.
At the core of this adorable heart-shaped synth, designed by music technology enthusiast [tobi tubbutec], is the classic 74HCT14 chip with six Schmitt trigger oscilla... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156158",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T15:54:36",
"content": "The position/ orientation of the battery holder in the banner photo makes it look like a frowning face.Sort of sending a mixed message…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,373,883.113893 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/14/knitting-software-automatically-converts-3d-models-into-machine-knit-stuffies/ | Knitting Software Automatically Converts 3D Models Into Machine-knit Stuffies | Brian Boucheron | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"3d",
"knit",
"knitting",
"knitting machine",
"software"
] | We’ve seen our fair share of interesting knitting hacks here at Hackaday. There has been a lot of creative space explored while mashing computers into knitting machines and vice versa, but for the most part the resulting knit goods all tend to be a bit… two-dimensional. The mechanical reality of knitting and hobbyist-l... | 20 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156667",
"author": "Paul Hupman",
"timestamp": "2019-06-14T16:15:09",
"content": "If my dogs find out, I’ll never hear the end of this…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156670",
"author": "drenehtsral",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,373,883.310349 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/14/this-week-in-security-use-emacs-crash-a-windows-server-and-a-cryptocurrency-heist/ | This Week In Security: Use Emacs, Crash A Windows Server, And A Cryptocurrency Heist | Jonathan Bennett | [
"computer hacks",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"cryptocurrency",
"project zero",
"security"
] | It looks like Al was right, we should all be using Emacs. On the 4th of June, [Armin Razmjou] announced
a flaw in Vim
that allowed a malicious text file to trigger arbitrary code execution. It’s not every day we come across a malicious text file, and the proof of concept makes use of a clever technique — escape sequenc... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156658",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2019-06-14T14:56:10",
"content": "Wow! Thanks for posting this (especially about my second favorite text editor, after ed). B^)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156659",
"author": "Se... | 1,760,373,883.160646 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/14/augmented-arthropod-gets-a-self-balancing-ride/ | Augmented Arthropod Gets A Self-Balancing Ride | Lewin Day | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"augment",
"augmentation",
"insect",
"self balancing",
"Self Balancing Robot"
] | There are many people who find being around insects uncomfortable. This is understandable, and only likely to get worse as technology gives these multi-legged critters augmented bodies to roam around with. [tech_support], for one, welcomes our new arthropod overlords,
and has even built them a sweet new ride to get aro... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156646",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2019-06-14T13:14:54",
"content": "I look forward to the day it becomes an articulated augmented autonomous arthropod, actually!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156651",
"author": "Sh... | 1,760,373,883.074987 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/14/hyperlinking-comes-to-github-via-extension/ | Hyperlinking Comes To GitHub Via Extension | Al Williams | [
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"browser extension",
"chrome",
"github"
] | If you are browsing GitHub it is very tempting to open up the source code to some project and peek at how it works. The code view is easy to read, but the viewer lacks one important feature: the ability to click on an included file and find it. The
Octolinker
extension fixes that oversight.
If you want to try it withou... | 8 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156616",
"author": "Dario Fabijančić",
"timestamp": "2019-06-14T08:58:46",
"content": "Uh, only for Google Chrome, I prefer looking at my open source code on an open source browser.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156617",
... | 1,760,373,883.253204 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/13/divide-to-conquer-capacitive-touch-problems/ | Divide To Conquer Capacitive Touch Problems | Mike Szczys | [
"classic hacks",
"home entertainment hacks"
] | [
"capacitive touch",
"MPR121",
"MusiCubes"
] | Back in the day, all of your music was on a shelf (or in milk crates) and the act of choosing what to listen to was a tangible one. [Michael Teeuw] appreciates the power of having music on demand, but misses that physical aspect when it comes time to “put something on”. His solution is a hardware controller that he cal... | 8 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156580",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2019-06-14T05:13:08",
"content": "Impedances versus Ohms",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156586",
"author": "smerrett79",
"timestamp": "2019-06-14T06:24:19",
"content": "Ha... | 1,760,373,883.208583 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/13/a-tetris-clock/ | A Tetris Clock | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"clock hacks"
] | [
"clock",
"ESP32",
"tetris",
"TinyPICO"
] | We have had no shortage of clock projects over the years, and this one is entertaining because it spells the time out using
Tetris-style blocks
. The project looks good and is adaptable to different displays. The code is on GitHub and it relies on a Tetris library that has been updated to handle different displays and ... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156605",
"author": "deshipu@sheep.art.pl",
"timestamp": "2019-06-14T07:54:06",
"content": "Could be done with a 555!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156705",
"author": "Soc Rat",
"timestamp": "2019-06-14T22:3... | 1,760,373,883.376187 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/13/let-the-cards-fall-where-they-may-with-a-robotic-rain-main/ | Let The Cards Fall Where They May, With A Robotic Rain Man | Dan Maloney | [
"Games"
] | [
"21",
"blackjack",
"card counting",
"cards",
"casino",
"cheats",
"gambling",
"webcam",
"YOLO"
] | Finally, a useful application for machine vision! Forget all that self-driving nonsense and facial recognition stuff – we’ve finally got
an AI that can count cards at the blackjack table
.
The system that [Edje Electronics] has built, dubbed “Rain Man 2.0” in homage to the classic title character created by [Dustin Ho... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156549",
"author": "Lily",
"timestamp": "2019-06-14T00:19:26",
"content": "Is the title misspelled?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156556",
"author": "Somun",
"timestamp": "2019-06-14T01:19:09",
"con... | 1,760,373,883.601167 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/12/shorting-pins-on-a-raspberry-pi-is-a-bad-idea-pmic-failures-under-investigation/ | Shorting Pins On A Raspberry Pi Is A Bad Idea; PMIC Failures Under Investigation | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Featured",
"Raspberry Pi",
"Slider"
] | [
"bricked",
"failure",
"MXL7704",
"PMIC",
"raspberry pi",
"short"
] | You may have noticed, we’re fans of the Raspberry Pi here at Hackaday. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t feature a hack that uses a Pi somewhere in the build. As useful as the Pis are, they aren’t entirely without fault. We’ve talked about the
problems with the PoE hat
, and
multiple articles
about
keeping SD cards al... | 153 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156120",
"author": "Frank Buss",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T14:08:58",
"content": "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!Then don’t do this!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156178",
"author": "Ryan Sawyer",
"timestam... | 1,760,373,883.846096 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/12/prusa-printer-gets-an-lcd-ectomy-gains-a-vfd/ | Prusa Printer Gets An LCD-ectomy, Gains A VFD | Dan Maloney | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"display",
"lcd",
"noritake",
"Prusa i3 Mk3",
"UI",
"vacuum fluorescent display",
"vfd"
] | What’s wrong with the OEM display on a Prusa I3 Mk3? Nothing at all. Then why
replace the stock LCD with a vacuum fluorescent display
? Because VFDs are much, much cooler than LCDs.
(Pedantic Editor’s Note: VFDs actually run a little warm.)
At least that’s the reasoning [Scott M. Baker] applied to his Prusa upgrade. We... | 17 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156094",
"author": "jwebola",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T11:50:00",
"content": "I like the VFD. Nice Job!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6156097",
"author": "zaprodk",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T12:19:51",
"content": "... | 1,760,373,883.651584 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/12/an-exhaustive-guide-to-building-18650-packs/ | An Exhaustive Guide To Building 18650 Packs | Jenny List | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"18650",
"battery pack",
"Li-ion"
] | Most of us know the basics of building packs of lithium-ion batteries. We’re familiar with cell balancing and the need for protection circuitry, and we understand the intricacies of the various serial and parallel configurations. It’s still a process that can be daunting for the first-time pack-builder though, because ... | 23 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156073",
"author": "James Sleeman",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T09:01:44",
"content": "C rating definition in the second video definition is incorrect I believe (he says 10C 3Ah battery has a 10/3 discharge rating, where in fact it is a 10*3 discharge rating), also no fusible links on... | 1,760,373,883.953322 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/reverse-engineering-wyzesense-hardware/ | Reverse Engineering WyzeSense Hardware | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"home automation",
"IoT",
"reverse engineering"
] | Wyze are a company that produces a variety of home automation products. Their Wyze Sense package is a system of contact and PIR home security sensors, that piggy backs off their Wyze Cam product. In the interests of being able to use this hardware outside the prescribed corporate ecosystem,
[Xuan Xing] got down to hack... | 6 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156082",
"author": "Koelie2",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T10:30:12",
"content": "These ‘custom’ firmwares have some serious security flaws… I won’t recommend hanging any of these in your network.SSH enabled by default with default settings and no way to change.Check:https://flamingo-t... | 1,760,373,883.890296 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/art-project-analyzes-every-public-recording-of-facebooks-ceo-since-2004/ | Art Project Analyzes Every Public Recording Of Facebook’s CEO Since 2004 | Donald Papp | [
"Art",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"archive",
"art",
"facebook",
"video"
] | [Benjamin Grosser] had a simple question: “What does Mark Zuckerberg think about?” The resulting art project is named
ORDER OF MAGNITUDE
and to create it he researched
archives of every public utterance
the founder and CEO of the world’s largest social media network has made, going as far back as 2004.
The end product ... | 15 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6156025",
"author": "RetiredHobgoblin",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T02:05:39",
"content": "The only hack here is the editing",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156035",
"author": "Ø",
"timestamp": "2019-06-12T03:37:... | 1,760,373,884.007475 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/new-pcb-revives-ancient-bubble-led-displays/ | New PCB Revives Ancient Bubble LED Displays | Ted Yapo | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"7 segment",
"bubble display",
"HP5082",
"Multiplex7seg"
] | For those of us who remember LED calculators, the HP 5082-7400 series red “bubble” displays hold a special charm. Available in 3, 4, or 5-digit varieties, these multiplexed 7-segment displays provided countless hours of entertainment to those who would spell upside-down words on their pocket calculators. In case you ha... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155984",
"author": "gregg4",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T23:17:14",
"content": "Interesting. But, ah, where did the author of this amazing idea find the displays for the activity? I found mine at a Hamfest last year. I know they are of the 5082-74XX series of displays. I believe they ... | 1,760,373,884.060036 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/the-day-hackadays-theme-was-broken/ | The Day Hackaday’s Theme Was Broken | Mike Szczys | [
"News"
] | [
"hackaday",
"site down",
"site hosting",
"VIP Go",
"whoops",
"Wordpress VIP"
] | Today at about 10:00 AM Pacific time, Hackaday’s site host had an outage. All websites on the WordPress VIP Go platform were down, and that includes Hackaday. For about 45 minutes you couldn’t load any content, and for a bit more than two hours after that all we could display was a default WordPress theme with an alarm... | 55 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155942",
"author": "Tye",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T20:42:35",
"content": "Oh thank god. I thought for a minute you were going with a new minimalist style.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155955",
"author": "Ostracus... | 1,760,373,884.172537 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/injection-molding-with-a-hot-glue-gun/ | Injection Molding With A Hot Glue Gun | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"CNC mould",
"hot glue",
"injection molding",
"washers"
] | Injection molding is an industrial process used the world over for the quick and economical production of plastic parts. [Nikodem Bartnik] wanted to experiment with this at home,
so whipped up some molds and got to work (Youtube link, embedded below)
.
[Nikodem] produced aluminium molds, using a Dremel-based CNC platfo... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155929",
"author": "weirdwhit",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T20:10:49",
"content": "Heating the mold may be the way to go on larger molds, give the glue some time to creep into all the nooks before it hardens. The professional glue guns sometimes have a temp adjustment, that might hel... | 1,760,373,884.218247 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/hestiapi-a-stylish-open-hardware-thermostat/ | HestiaPi: A Stylish Open Hardware Thermostat | Tom Nardi | [
"home hacks",
"Raspberry Pi",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2019 Hackaday Prize",
"bme280",
"home automation",
"openhab",
"raspberry pi thermostat"
] | A common complaint about open hardware and software is that the aesthetic aspects of the projects often leave something to be desired. This isn’t wholly surprising, as the type of hackers who are building these things tend to be more concerned with how well they work than what they look like. But there’s certainly noth... | 20 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155879",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T18:32:44",
"content": "Can’t see a thing, gone snowblind.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155883",
"author": "Gambrius",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T18:38:36"... | 1,760,373,884.281402 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/biosentinel-mission-aims-to-put-yeast-into-deep-space/ | BioSentinel Mission Aims To Put Yeast Into Deep Space | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Science",
"Slider",
"Space"
] | [] | It’s a truly exciting time for space enthusiasts. Humanity is finally shaking itself out of the half-century-long doldrums of deep space exploration and planning a return to the Moon and a push to Mars. Yes, exciting things have happened since the glory days of Apollo. We’ve
reached out into the outer planets
,
drilled... | 19 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155839",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T17:43:01",
"content": "What in the hell happened to my Hackaday feed?It is gray lettering on a white background!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155842",
"author": "... | 1,760,373,884.347256 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/google-home-mini-gets-a-headphone-jack/ | Google Home Mini Gets A Headphone Jack | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"google home",
"google home mini",
"headphone jack"
] | The Google Home Mini can be a useful home assistant device. It can set reminders, tell you the weather, and even play you music. [Brian] had a few lying around, and decided he wanted to hook one up to a beefier set of speakers. Thus,
he installed a headphone jack into the Google Home Mini.
The quick and dirty approach ... | 19 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155815",
"author": "spiritplumber",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T15:44:26",
"content": "Does anyone have any use for the old audio->serial stuff in this case? I have some code I just need to post it.Or does the google home mini already have serial output?",
"parent_id": null,
"... | 1,760,373,884.51348 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/a-field-guide-to-transmission-lines/ | A Field Guide To Transmission Lines | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"Field Guide",
"grid",
"high voltage",
"infrastructure",
"power grid",
"transmission lines",
"transmission tower"
] | The power grid is a complicated beast, regardless of where you live. Power plants have to send energy to all of their clients at a constant frequency and voltage (regardless of the demand at any one time), and to do that they need a wide array of equipment. From transformers and voltage regulators to line reactors and ... | 122 | 34 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155774",
"author": "jcwren",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T14:08:14",
"content": "I feel so empowered know this :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155835",
"author": "Ian Levesque",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T17:13:... | 1,760,373,884.839304 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/smarten-up-your-air-conditioning-with-the-esp8266/ | Smarten Up Your Air Conditioning With The ESP8266 | Tom Nardi | [
"home hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"air conditioning",
"dht11",
"home automation",
"IR transmitter"
] | If you’re looking for “smart” home appliances, there’s no shortage of options on the market. Even relatively low-end gadgets are jumping on the Internet of Things bandwagon these days (for better or for worse). But what if you’re not looking to purchase a brand new major appliance right now? In that case, you might be ... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155722",
"author": "walter",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T11:49:27",
"content": "The antenna should be free of PCB around + this DHT11 is the worst choice ever as sensor",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155767",
"author":... | 1,760,373,884.97065 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/vintage-speech-synthesizer-croons-the-oldies/ | Vintage Speech Synthesizer Croons The Oldies | Dan Maloney | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"DECtalk",
"phoneme",
"retrocomputer",
"rs-232",
"serial",
"speech synthesis",
"TRS-80 model 100"
] | If you listened to the National Weather Service Weather Radio in the US about 25 years ago, you’ll no doubt remember [Perfect Paul], one of the synthesized voices used to read current conditions and weather forecasts. The voice came from a DECtalk DTC01, a not inexpensive voice synthesizer first made in 1984 that also ... | 33 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155693",
"author": "dave",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T08:27:33",
"content": "Hilarious.Can he do requests?Please?!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155720",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.1",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T11:... | 1,760,373,884.911843 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/captivating-esp32-camera-hack/ | Captivating ESP32 Camera Hack | Inderpreet Singh | [
"hardware",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"ESP32",
"ESP32 camera"
] | You can never have enough DIY devices at home, so when you look at an ESP32 module that comes with the camera, you automatically start getting ideas. [
Daniel Padilla
] wanted a way to deploy DIY camera modules without the hassle of configuring them so he made one that
looks like an access point and starts streaming as... | 16 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155841",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T17:48:21",
"content": "Where did you get the banner photo?I didn’t see it on the git link.Do all its pictures appear yellow?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155870",
... | 1,760,373,887.078052 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/schrodingers-cat-lives/ | Schrodinger’s Cat Lives | Al Williams | [
"Science"
] | [
"quantum computing",
"quantum physics",
"qubit"
] | If quantum physics always sounded a little squirrelly to you, take heart. Yale researchers have announced that they can do what quantum physics claimed to be impossible: they can determine the state
a quantum system will collapse to
before it happens. This contradicts Schrodinger’s famous hypothetical cat that is super... | 31 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155634",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T02:02:22",
"content": "Nope, said it was possible two years ago.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155642",
"author": "David 2",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T02:... | 1,760,373,887.023342 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/somethings-fishy-about-this-computer/ | Something’s Fishy About This Computer | Mike Szczys | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"aquarium computer",
"mineral oil",
"oil cooling"
] | Aquariums are amazingly beautiful displays of vibrant ocean life, or at least they can be. For a lot of people aquariums become frustrating chemistry battle to keep the ecosystem heathly and avoid a scummy cesspool where no fish want to be.
This hack sidesteps that problem, pulling off some of the most beautiful parts ... | 10 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155621",
"author": "Hirudinea",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T00:42:06",
"content": "Wheres the fish?https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07B5Z43GK/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155655",
"author": "jrfl",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,373,886.957263 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/adding-bluetooth-control-to-a-benchtop-power-supply/ | Adding Bluetooth Control To A Benchtop Power Supply | Lewin Day | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"launchpad",
"power supply",
"ti launchpad"
] | In 2019, it’s possible to kit out a lab with all the essentials at an even cheaper price than it has ever been. The DPS3005 is one such example of low-cost equipment – a variable power supply available for less than $50 with a good set of features.
[Markel Robregado] wanted a little more functionality, however, and got... | 7 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155566",
"author": "marble",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T20:30:28",
"content": "You can buy the kit with a Bluetooth module…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6155604",
"author": "Ross Fiamingo",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T23:... | 1,760,373,886.559506 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/windows-10-goes-to-shell/ | Windows 10 Goes To Shell | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Linux Hacks",
"News",
"Slider",
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"bash",
"linux",
"windows",
"Windows 10"
] | Windows 10 — the operating system people love to hate or hate to love. Even if you’re a Linux die-hard, it is a fair bet that your workplace uses it and that you have friends and family members that need help forcing you to use Windows at least some times. If you prefer a command line — or even just find a place where ... | 51 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155478",
"author": "deshipu",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T17:40:28",
"content": "The correct name is GNU/Windows.Also, I think you have an extra “S” in the title.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155494",
"author": "Squi... | 1,760,373,886.720657 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/fusion-360-for-3d-printing-hack-chat/ | Fusion 360 For 3D-Printing Hack Chat | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"3d printing",
"Fusion 360",
"The Hack Chat"
] | Join us on Wednesday 12 June 2019 at noon Pacific for the
Fusion 360 for 3D-Printing Hack Chat
with
Vladimir Mariano
!
There’s no way to overstate the importance of the design and manufacturing tools we now all use on a daily basis. What once took a well-equipped machine shop and years of experience to accomplish can n... | 17 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155449",
"author": "huntdesigns",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T16:26:14",
"content": "You can save locally (at least now)… Finding another program that may be able to open you fusion360 files is another issue… (i export to step and open with inventor, it would be great if there were s... | 1,760,373,886.84787 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/creating-a-laser-cutter-from-a-3d-printer/ | Creating A Laser Cutter From A 3D Printer | Lewin Day | [
"Laser Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"3d printer",
"laser",
"laser cutter",
"laser engraver"
] | The average FDM 3D printer is not so different from your garden variety laser cutter. They’re often both Cartesian-coordinate based machines, but with different numbers of axes and mounting different tools. As [Gosse Adema] shows,
turning a 3D printer into a laser cutter can actually be a remarkably easy job.
The build... | 32 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155433",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T15:48:48",
"content": "is it really that hard to modify 3d printing firmware to include interlocks and the necessary safety systems?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155440"... | 1,760,373,887.148547 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/09/assembling-a-lathe-from-not-a-lot/ | Assembling A Lathe From Not A Lot | Jenny List | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"home made lathe",
"lathe",
"turning"
] | Most people have a piece of equipment without which they consider their workshop or bench to be incomplete. For some, it is an oscilloscope, for others a bandsaw, but for many metalworkers, it is a lathe. Lathes are expensive if you are seeking a good one, quite cheap if you don’t mind a bad one, and sometimes even fre... | 36 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155205",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T18:09:29",
"content": "Wow, DIY Harbor Freight. :) All joking aside, well done on the personal initiative and persistence level.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155217",... | 1,760,373,886.788595 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/09/homebrew-laptop-makes-a-statement-with-a-steampunk-theme/ | Homebrew Laptop Makes A Statement With A Steampunk Theme | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"laptop",
"retro",
"steampunk",
"touch screen"
] | Some may argue, but your choice of computing hardware says exactly zero about you, at least when you buy off the shelf. Your laptop or PC is only one of millions, and the chances of seeing someone with the exact same machine are pretty good. If you want to be different, you really need to build something yourself.
This... | 15 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155166",
"author": "Dr Cockroach",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T15:16:07",
"content": "Very nice write up Dan and congrats to Starhawk :-D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155187",
"author": "starhawk",
"timestamp... | 1,760,373,886.898755 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/09/protect-your-coffee-machine-with-a-filter-monitor/ | Protect Your Coffee Machine With A Filter Monitor | Jenny List | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"coffee machine",
"sensor",
"TDS",
"water filter",
"water sensor"
] | Coffee machines are delicate instruments, likely to be damaged by limescale. Thus they will often have a filter present, but filters have a limited capacity of water upon which they can be effective. At Make Bournemouth, they have approached the problem of when to change filters on their coffee machine
by applying a bi... | 16 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155141",
"author": "ejonesss",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T12:29:05",
"content": "cant you clr your coffee machine?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155432",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T15:47:26",
... | 1,760,373,886.620328 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/09/simple-trick-for-leds-on-solderless-breadboards/ | Simple Trick For LEDs On Solderless Breadboards | Ted Yapo | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"breadboard hacks",
"led",
"solderless breadboard"
] | Sometimes the most useful hacks are also the simplest ones. A case in point is the
LED and resistor assembly
that [Skippy] recently posted on his blog. The idea is to solder up some pre-made indicators with integrated resistors to save space on the breadboard when prototyping — instead of four slots, you only use two p... | 39 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155110",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T09:07:18",
"content": "seriously… the big “hack” here is “soldering parts onto a solderless breadboard”If this catches on then soon people will be plugging in completely soldered circuits and modules onto the solderless breadboard.... | 1,760,373,887.334184 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/08/lego-goes-underwater-with-model-submarines-and-missiles/ | Lego Goes Underwater, With Model Submarines And Missiles | Al Williams | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"lego",
"radio control",
"rc",
"submarine"
] | It is fun to make a toy vehicle with Lego, but it is even more fun to make one that actually works. [PeterSripol] made
two Lego submarines
, and you can see them in the video below. There isn’t a lot of build information, but watching the subs fire missiles and then getting destroyed by depth charges is worth something... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155083",
"author": "Gregg",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T05:05:20",
"content": "The wire is probably an antenna wire. Longer for low frequency.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6156711",
"author": "KingKahn",
"time... | 1,760,373,887.530671 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/08/hail-to-the-king-baby-reverse-engineering-duke/ | Hail To The King, Baby: Reverse Engineering Duke | Tom Nardi | [
"Games",
"Software Development"
] | [
"disassembly",
"dos",
"dosbox",
"ida pro",
"retro gaming",
"reverse engineering"
] | If you’re a fan of DOS games from the 1990s, you’ve almost certainly used DOSBox to replay them on a modern computer. It allows you to run software in a virtual environment that replicates an era-appropriate computer. That’s great for historical accuracy, but doesn’t do you much good if you’re trying to leverage modern... | 15 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155089",
"author": "punkdigerati",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T06:20:35",
"content": "Are you sure there’s an editor, or is that the position hackaday is hiring for?“but manages improves on the original”“made even more impressive once learn that the original”",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,373,887.758905 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/08/circuit-bending-those-adorable-voices/ | Circuit Bending Those Adorable Voices | Mike Szczys | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"circuit bending",
"Leapfrog",
"midi",
"pic",
"PIC16F1829",
"synth"
] | Leapfrog make some pretty awesome kids electronics. Especially admirable is the low cost, the battery life, and the audio quality of these devices. This circuit bending hack takes advantage of those audio circuits by
turning the Alphabet Pal into your lead vocalist
. The performance in the demo video begins with some i... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155064",
"author": "CMH62",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T01:43:36",
"content": "Arrggggggh! I saw one of these for about a dollar or so recently at a Goodwill but didn’t snag it. Must …. not … resist … temptation ….. to buy …….. stuff…….. I MIGHT need some day!!! 😂",
"parent_id... | 1,760,373,887.487298 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/takatas-deadly-airbags-an-engineering-omnishambles/ | Takata’s Deadly Airbags: An Engineering Omnishambles | Lewin Day | [
"car hacks",
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"airbag",
"airbags",
"automotive",
"automotive engineering",
"car",
"cars",
"takata",
"takata airbag"
] | Engineers are, for the time being, only human. This applies even more so to executives, and all the other people that make up a modern organisation. Naturally, mistakes are made. Some are minor, while others are less so. It’s common knowledge that problems are best dealt with swift and early, and yet so often they are ... | 116 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155396",
"author": "Andy Pugh",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T14:15:36",
"content": "Not all cars have ever had airbags. If the faulty airbags are more dangerous than no airbag then would it not make sense to simply disconnect the potentially faulty airbag while awaiting replacements to... | 1,760,373,887.701729 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/this-clapperboard-prints-movie-posters/ | This Clapperboard Prints Movie Posters | Rich Hawkes | [
"hardware",
"how-to",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"3d prining",
"clapper",
"clapperboard",
"raspberry pi",
"thermal printer",
"tmdb"
] | The clapperboard is a device used in video to synchronize audio and video. Its role in movies is well known and its use goes back in one form or another to the 1920s. [Gocivici] is a big movie fan and created a
clapperboard that is able to print out posters of recently announced movies
when the clapper is clapped.
The ... | 3 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155661",
"author": "neimad",
"timestamp": "2019-06-11T04:38:17",
"content": "Kind of a waste of plastic, silicon, and paper.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155749",
"author": "Spacedog",
"timestamp": "2019-0... | 1,760,373,887.436387 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/10/running-linux-on-a-thermostat/ | Running Linux On A Thermostat | Ted Yapo | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"Honeywell",
"linux",
"thermostat"
] | When your thermostat comes with Linux running on it, that’s not a hack. When it doesn’t, and you get Linux on there yourself, it most definitely is. This is exactly what [cz7asm] has done. In a
recent video
, he shows the Honeywell thermostat booting Linux and running a wide range of software.
While the hardware inside... | 8 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155362",
"author": "paul",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T11:41:46",
"content": "I do not understand why this warrants a hackaday article at this time.No info on the hardware (some chip numbers would have been nice) or on what was done to get this far.Also, one of the first screenshots s... | 1,760,373,887.84896 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/09/a-wii-playing-the-gamecube-disguised-as-a-game-boy-sp/ | A Wii Playing The GameCube, Disguised As A Game Boy SP | Tom Nardi | [
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Nintendo Wii Hacks"
] | [
"Game Boy Advance SP",
"gamecube",
"portable",
"wii"
] | It may be hard to believe, but thanks to the expert work of Nintendo aficionado [Bill Paxton],
the Game Boy Advance SP and GameCube lovechild that you see before you started its life as a Wii
. That means not only can it play commercial GameCube and Wii games, but also has access to the wide library of homebrew games a... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155315",
"author": "pac",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T05:05:15",
"content": "Bill Paxton? GAME OVER MAN.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155330",
"author": "burny110",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T07:32:12",
... | 1,760,373,887.806847 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/09/hackaday-links-june-9-2019/ | Hackaday Links: June 9, 2019 | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"AirBnB",
"arduino",
"Crowd Supply",
"iss",
"Nuclear Reactor",
"uranium"
] | The Chicago Pile led to the Manhattan Project, which led to the atomic bomb. In Germany, there were similar efforts with less success, and now we have physical evidence from the first attempted nuclear reactor in Germany. In
Physics Today
,
there’s a lovely historical retrospective
of one of the ‘fuel cubes’ that went ... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155287",
"author": "Jon H",
"timestamp": "2019-06-10T01:07:51",
"content": "The Chicago Piles, on the other hand, are what happens when you over-indulge in deep dish.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6155346",
"author": "Gre... | 1,760,373,887.898056 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/09/gps-and-ads-b-problems-cause-cancelled-flights/ | GPS And ADS-B Problems Cause Cancelled Flights | Adam Fabio | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"News",
"Slider",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"ads-b",
"airliner",
"gps",
"navigation"
] | Something strange has been going on in the friendly skies over the last day or so. Flights are being canceled. Aircraft are grounded. Passengers are understandably upset. The core of the issue is GPS and ADS-B systems. The ADS-B system depends on GPS data to function properly, but over this weekend a problem with the q... | 80 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155243",
"author": "Jack Chomley",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T22:10:29",
"content": "Says a lot for maintaining NDBs and VOR/DME equipment.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155499",
"author": "Jim Wright",
"time... | 1,760,373,888.012485 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/09/dead-bug-arduino-is-lively-and-shield-compatible/ | Dead Bug Arduino Is Lively And Shield-Compatible | Brian McEvoy | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Art"
] | [
"arduino",
"brass",
"dead bug",
"deadbug",
"free-form",
"freeform",
"solder"
] | Microcontroller demo boards such as the Arduino UNO are ubiquitous on Hackaday as the brains of many a project which inevitably does something impressive or unusual. Sometime someone builds a particularly tiny demo board, or an impressively large one. In the case of the board featured here, the Arduino is a gorgeous la... | 22 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155219",
"author": "Mart",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T20:03:55",
"content": "Damn impressive work ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6155248",
"author": "PuceBaboon",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T22:31:01",
"content": "Tr... | 1,760,373,888.067471 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/moped-turn-signals-now-with-more-cowbell/ | Moped Turn Signals, Now With More Cowbell | Dan Maloney | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"actuator",
"clapper",
"cowbell",
"moped",
"relay",
"scooter",
"solenoid",
"turn signal"
] | Cue up the [Christopher Walken] memes, it’s time for
moped turn signals with more cowbell
. Because moped turn signals with less cowbell are clearly the inferior among moped turn signals.
It seems that [Joel Creates] suffers from the same rhythm recognition disorder that we do. The slightest similarity between a rhythm... | 14 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154793",
"author": "Thinkerer",
"timestamp": "2019-06-08T03:00:58",
"content": "Bonus points for a hi-hat; it might get people to look up from their phones.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6154869",
"author": "Mechanicus",
... | 1,760,373,888.231097 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/the-arduboy-community-rolled-their-own-cartridge/ | The ArduBoy Community Rolled Their Own Cartridge | Tom Nardi | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Games",
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"Arduboy",
"cartridge",
"flash cart",
"retro gaming"
] | The Arduboy, as you might have guessed from the name, was designed as a love letter to the Nintendo Game Boy that many a hacker spent their formative years squinting at. While the open source handheld is far smaller than the classic DMG-01, it retains the same general form factor, monochromatic display, and even the ic... | 10 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154744",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2019-06-07T22:25:11",
"content": "I am not in the Arduboy loop here… Why not an sd-card?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6154772",
"author": "Limited",
"timestamp": "... | 1,760,373,888.344914 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/were-hiring-come-join-us-3/ | We’re Hiring: Come Join Us! | Mike Szczys | [
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"contributor",
"hiring"
] | You wake up in the morning, and check Hackaday over breakfast. Then it’s off to work or school, where you’ve already had to explain the Jolly Wrencher to your shoulder-surfing colleagues. And then to a hackspace or back to your home lab, stopping by the skull-and-cross-wrenches while commuting, naturally. You don’t ble... | 33 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154704",
"author": "danjovic",
"timestamp": "2019-06-07T20:23:10",
"content": "Have you ever considered using “freelance” contributors? No money involved but no obligations too…. “Freelancers” could use the tipline itself to send the articles.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": ... | 1,760,373,888.440887 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/bikeon-makes-electric-conversion-a-snap/ | BikeOn Makes Electric Conversion A Snap | Tom Nardi | [
"The Hackaday Prize",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"2019 Hackaday Prize",
"bike",
"conversion",
"electric bike",
"torque"
] | If you’re in a relatively urban area and your destination is within a reasonable distance, it’s hard to argue against riding your bike rather than taking a car. It’s a positive for the environment, and great way to exercise and keep active. But some of us, say folks who write for the Internet full-time, might appreciat... | 66 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154676",
"author": "jeromekelty",
"timestamp": "2019-06-07T18:51:45",
"content": "It’s a really neat idea. It appears that you lose the ability to shift the rear derailleur into the larger cogs though- it’s hard to tell from the video how much it affects chain line clearance.",
... | 1,760,373,888.689864 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/ask-hackaday-what-skills-would-you-give-a-twelve-year-old/ | Ask Hackaday: What Skills Would You Give A Twelve Year Old? | Jenny List | [
"Ask Hackaday",
"Interest"
] | [
"Ask Hackaday",
"kids",
"skills"
] | In several decades of hanging around people who make things, one meets a lot of people fascinated by locks, lock picking, and locksport. It’s interesting to be sure, but it had never gripped me until an evening in MK Makerspace when a fellow member had brought in his lockpicking box with its selection of locks, padlock... | 84 | 34 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154652",
"author": "deshipu",
"timestamp": "2019-06-07T17:16:14",
"content": "As long as homo sapiens is on this planet, the most useful skills remain to be the social skills. And for a teenager who is dealing with a lot of that, this is exponentially true. So the skills I would gi... | 1,760,373,888.899294 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/hackaday-podcast-022-king-of-power-banks-great-sdr-hacks-sand-reflow-and-rat-rod-mower/ | Hackaday Podcast 022: King Of Power Banks, Great SDR Hacks, Sand Reflow, And Rat Rod Mower | Mike Szczys | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys dig through the most interesting hacks from the past week. On this episode we take a look at a portable power bank build that defies belief. We discuss an all-in-one SDR portable, messing with restaurant pagers, and the software that’s common to both of these pursuits. There’s a hopping ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154728",
"author": "Gregg Eshelman",
"timestamp": "2019-06-07T21:29:29",
"content": "I want to see teardowns of the droids, holocrons, lightsabers, and kyber crystals from Galaxy’s edge. Do those “crystals” have active electronics? Batteries inside? Very low power RFID? If the holo... | 1,760,373,888.579088 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/strollercontroller-free-parents-from-menial-labor/ | StrollerController Free Parents From Menial Labor | Roger Cheng | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"bamf",
"Bay Area Maker Faire 2019",
"electric wheelchair",
"Maker Faire Bay Area",
"MFBA",
"stroller"
] | Raising young children is hard work, and parents need all the help they can get. There’s a whole industry catering to parents who are willing to pay to make their lives a little easier. Then, we have hacker minded parents like [Sam Pearce] who build his own solutions like
joystick-controlled motorized strollers
. His k... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154639",
"author": "Rog Fanther",
"timestamp": "2019-06-07T15:55:08",
"content": "Shouldn´t this have sensors in the front ( and sides ) to avoid collisions ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6154643",
"author": "Roger... | 1,760,373,888.74118 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/08/unconventional-drone-uses-gas-thrusters-for-control/ | Unconventional Drone Uses Gas Thrusters For Control | Dan Maloney | [
"drone hacks"
] | [
"compressed air",
"drone",
"Ducted Fan",
"jet",
"Nozzle",
"pitch",
"RCS",
"reaction control",
"Roll",
"uav",
"yaw"
] | You’ve got to hand it to [Tom Stanton] – he really thinks outside the box. And potentially outside the atmosphere, to wit: we present
his reaction control gas thruster-controlled drone
.
Before anyone gets too excited, [Tom] isn’t building drones for use in a vacuum, although we can certainly see a use case for such de... | 28 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155032",
"author": "Brian",
"timestamp": "2019-06-08T20:19:32",
"content": "Pretty sweet. I wonder if you could use a single small CO2 cartridge instead of the three 2 liter bottles. The total weight should be about the same, and you could get longer run time. And it would be more ... | 1,760,373,888.960722 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/08/play-to-the-beat-of-this-robotic-drummer-in-a-box/ | Play To The Beat Of This Robotic Drummer In A Box | Dan Maloney | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"bass",
"cymbal",
"drum",
"hi-hat",
"kick",
"low pass filter",
"piezo",
"reverse bias",
"snare",
"white noise"
] | No drummer? No problem! With a little ingenuity, you can
stuff the essentials of a drum kit into a box
, and automate your rhythm section.
Mind you, [Franco Molina]’s “DrumCube” doesn’t quite have the flash of a human drummer, but it does keep a steady beat and has a charm of its own. The drum machine is mostly mechani... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155084",
"author": "Feinfinger",
"timestamp": "2019-06-09T05:08:37",
"content": "I still prefer this one:https://hackaday.com/2013/01/08/robot-has-rhythm-carries-drum-sticks/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,373,888.77551 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/08/panadaptors-didnt-start-with-sdrs/ | Panadaptors Didn’t Start With SDRs | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"panadaptor",
"spectrum analyser",
"sweep generator"
] | The must-have accessory on a modern all-singing, all-dancing amateur radio transceiver is a panadaptor. Inevitably driven by SDR technology, it’s a view of a band in the frequency domain, and it will usually be displayed as a “waterfall” giving a time dimension to see transmissions over a period.
[Bill Meara, N2CQR] re... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6155002",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2019-06-08T17:36:50",
"content": "A 555 will do it and an op amp or two. I did it years ago with a good car radio and the scope. SSI from the tuner’s detector chip, sweep to the tuner tuning voltage input. Later I used a converted medi... | 1,760,373,889.004064 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/08/1980s-plotter-plays-flappy-bird/ | 1980s Plotter Plays Flappy Bird | Al Williams | [
"Games",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"Flappy Bird",
"hpgl",
"pen plotter",
"plotter"
] | Should you happen to have an HP7440A or similar plotter hanging around, you could have a quick game of Flappy Bird — or
Plotty Bird
as [WesleyAC] calls it. Just be sure you have some blank paper. The whole thing fits in about 200 lines of Rust code and — according to the author — gets to about 20 frames per second.
Wat... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154914",
"author": "Ewald",
"timestamp": "2019-06-08T11:14:48",
"content": "Always a joy to see these HP plotters at work:https://github.com/WesleyAC/plotty-bird/blob/master/demo.gif",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6155068",
... | 1,760,373,889.046556 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/08/c-reverbs-from-a-matlab-design/ | C++ Reverbs From A Matlab Design | Inderpreet Singh | [
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"dsp",
"matlab",
"reverb"
] | The guitar ‘Toing’ sound from the ’70s was epic, and for the first time listener it was enough to get a bunch of people hooked to the likes of Aerosmith. Reverb units were all the rage back then, and for his DSP class project, [nebk] creates
a reverb filter using Matlab and ports it to C++
.
Digital reverb was introduc... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154897",
"author": "Martin Randle",
"timestamp": "2019-06-08T08:47:47",
"content": "Digital reverb in the 60s??? I am pretty sure all reverbs in the 60s were physical, rooms plates and springs. I think the 70s gave us bucket brigade delays but digital? Not until the 80s surely!",
... | 1,760,373,889.090335 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/maker-media-ceases-operations/ | Maker Media Ceases Operations | Tom Nardi | [
"Current Events",
"Slider"
] | [
"bankruptcy",
"make magazine",
"maker faire"
] | Over the years we’ve had the dubious honor of bidding farewell to numerous companies that held a special place in the hearts of hackers and makers. We’ve borne witness to the demise of Radio Shack, TechShop, and PrintrBot, and even shed a tear or two when Toys “R” Us shut their doors. But as much as it hurt to see thos... | 200 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154794",
"author": "Noname",
"timestamp": "2019-06-08T03:10:37",
"content": "So they’re insolvent, but does that mean the don’t have enough liquid cash on hand, or is the value of their assets less then their debts? The first isnt great, but the second means maker media is done for... | 1,760,373,889.322885 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/tap-n-ghost-a-novel-attack-against-smartphone-touchscreens/ | Tap ‘N Ghost: A Novel Attack Against Smartphone Touchscreens | Brian Benchoff | [
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"NFC",
"security",
"touchscreen"
] | Researchers have demonstrated a new vulnerability in NFC, a feature built-in to many smartphones sold today. The vulnerability allows the attacker to to generate ‘ghost taps’ against a device, effectively allowing an attacker to tap your phone without you looking.
The 18-page paper released by a team of three researche... | 13 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154872",
"author": "Sjaak",
"timestamp": "2019-06-08T07:20:27",
"content": "Nfc is turned off when the screen is off or lock screen is on which makes the attack less lickely.Also i would pick up my phone if i see a popup (bad eyes). So another mitigation would be not wearing glasse... | 1,760,373,889.368656 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/06/the-finest-linux-tablet-you-can-build/ | The Finest Linux Tablet You Can Build | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2019 Hackaday Prize",
"linux",
"Linux Tablet"
] | For the last few years now, we’ve all had access to tiny, affordable Systems on a Module. These wunderchips are complete Linux systems with WiFi, a halfway decent GPU, and enough memory to run a real system. This is the perfect platform to base a tablet build on, the only problem is that someone has to actually do it.
... | 45 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154375",
"author": "Prof. Fartsparkle",
"timestamp": "2019-06-06T19:00:13",
"content": "The boards so far are just a training exercise to get accustomed to the hardware. Next up will be the actual PCB that will sit in the tablet :)Including a first test for the modular peripherals ... | 1,760,373,889.69358 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/06/fablab-saigon-celebrates-a-belated-arduino-day/ | Fablab Saigon Celebrates A Belated Arduino Day | Sean Boyce | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Hackerspaces"
] | [
"arduino day",
"arduino robot",
"FabLab Saigon",
"IoT",
"tesla coil",
"vietnam"
] | Okay, we’ve just left May and stepped into June, why are we talking about Arduino Day — traditionally a March 16
th
event where makers congregate and share projects? I live in Ho Chi Minh City, and the event tends to take place in mid-May, but the enthusiasm and collaborative spirit are just as strong. Organized by the... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154369",
"author": "Comedicles",
"timestamp": "2019-06-06T18:24:17",
"content": "There’s a new Arduino?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6160445",
"author": "Ram Red",
"timestamp": "2019-06-29T10:40:27",
... | 1,760,373,889.792956 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/06/dashing-diademata-delivers-second-generation-ros/ | Dashing Diademata Delivers Second Generation ROS | Roger Cheng | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"autonomous robot",
"autonomous vehicle",
"modular robot",
"modular robotics",
"Robot Operating System",
"robots",
"ros",
"ROS 2"
] | A simple robot that performs line-following or obstacle avoidance can fit all of its logic inside a single Arduino sketch. But as a robot’s autonomy increases, its corresponding software gets complicated very quickly. It won’t be long before diagnostic monitoring and logging comes in handy, or the desire to encapsulate... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154311",
"author": "Tegwyn☠Twmffat",
"timestamp": "2019-06-06T15:36:55",
"content": "I’m glad I never went for ROS 1. Maybe this version will indeed tip the adoption balance as Roger hinted?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6154... | 1,760,373,889.520152 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/06/the-atomic-pi-is-it-worth-it/ | The Atomic Pi: Is It Worth It? | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Reviews"
] | [
"Atomic Pi",
"intel",
"raspberry pi",
"x86"
] | Several months ago, a strange Kickstarter project from ‘Team IoT’ appeared that seemed too good to be true.
The Atomic Pi
was billed as a high-power alternative to the Raspberry Pi, and the specs are amazing. For thirty five American buckaroos, you get a single board computer with an Intel processor. You get 16 Gigs of... | 140 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154271",
"author": "Ken Hansen",
"timestamp": "2019-06-06T14:31:59",
"content": "Confused about this review, in no particular order:Comparing a $35 ‘board’ with a $100-130 computer system is a bit disingenuous.Plain as day this review says the board does what it claims – x86, HDMI,... | 1,760,373,890.22421 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/06/assessing-nozzle-wear-in-3d-printers/ | Assessing Nozzle Wear In 3D-Printers | Dan Maloney | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printer",
"analysis",
"bore",
"chamfer",
"destructive testing",
"extruder",
"filament",
"Nozzle",
"teardown"
] | How worn are your nozzles? It’s a legitimate question, so
[Stefan] set out to find out just how bad 3D-printer nozzle wear can get
. The answer, as always, is “It depends,” but exploring the issue turns out to be an interesting trip.
Reasoning that the best place to start is knowing what nozzle wear looks like, [Stefan... | 15 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154219",
"author": "Jim McCracken",
"timestamp": "2019-06-06T12:14:27",
"content": "I immediately identified the sprial profile in the cheap nozzle! My old Makerbot Cupcake prints that shape when making cylinders – its caused by the threaded rods on which the nozzle rides being no... | 1,760,373,889.746965 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/06/infineon-buys-cypress-for-10b/ | Infineon Buys Cypress For $10B | Brian Benchoff | [
"News"
] | [
"cypress",
"merger and acquisition",
"mergers and acquisitions"
] | Infineon will acquire Cypress Semiconductors for nearly $10 Billion dollars.
This is the latest merger or acquisition in the semiconductor industry, and these mergers and acquisitions show no sign of stopping anytime soon.
Infineon’s market currently consists mostly of products aimed at the automotive market and power ... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154197",
"author": "Tegwyn☠Twmffat",
"timestamp": "2019-06-06T10:39:52",
"content": "YAY …. Big lover of Infineum products and tech support here. Main MCU used in my agrirobot project here:https://hackaday.io/project/90057-autonomous-agri-robot-control-system. Nobody seems to know... | 1,760,373,889.888381 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/you-dont-need-that-bulky-crt-oscilloscope-anymore/ | You Don’t Need That Bulky CRT Oscilloscope Anymore | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"android",
"Atmel",
"ATXmega",
"function generator",
"open source",
"oscilloscope",
"rasberry pi",
"raspberry pi",
"usb"
] | While it might be nice to use a $4,000 oscilloscope in a lab at a university or well-funded corporate environment, a good portion of us won’t have access to that kind of equipment in our own home shops. There are a few ways of getting a working oscilloscope without breaking the bank, though. One option is to find old C... | 92 | 31 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154147",
"author": "George",
"timestamp": "2019-06-06T05:35:40",
"content": "Comparing this to a fully-fledged oscilloscope is silly, let alone a $4k one, even if it’s a CRT. 100kHz bandwidth is barely usable for anything in the real world other than audio.I’ll keep my “bulky CRT D... | 1,760,373,890.019293 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/storm-chasers-score-bullseye-on-tornado-with-instrument-packed-rocket/ | Storm Chasers Score Bullseye On Tornado With Instrument-Packed Rocket | Dan Maloney | [
"Science",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"IMU",
"LoRa",
"rocket",
"sensor",
"storm",
"telemetry",
"tornado"
] | Model rockets are a heck of a lot of fun, and not a few careers in science and engineering were jump-started by the thrilling woosh and rotten-egg stench of an Estes rocket launch. Adding simple instrumentation to the rocket doubles the fun by allowing telemetry to be sent back, or perhaps aiding in recovery of a lost ... | 16 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154120",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2019-06-06T02:10:35",
"content": "I live there (along the path), scary shtick. It was an EF5 for a short time before the speedway.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6154130",
"... | 1,760,373,889.840439 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/solder-smds-with-a-pan-o-sand/ | Solder SMDs With A Pan O’ Sand | Lewin Day | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"sand",
"smd soldering",
"soldering"
] | For those that grew up working with through-hole components, surface mount parts can be challenging to deal with. However, there are plenty of techniques out there that are more than accessible to the DIY set. With the right gear, soldering SMD boards is a snap –
just get yourself a hot pan of sand (Youtube link, embed... | 37 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154094",
"author": "Jon H",
"timestamp": "2019-06-05T23:07:32",
"content": "Does it need to be an induction cooktop or is that just conveniently non-burny?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6154095",
"author": "Art Mezi... | 1,760,373,890.29596 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/overengineering-the-humble-usb-power-bank/ | Overengineering The Humble USB Power Bank | Tom Nardi | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"18650 cell",
"3D printed enclosure",
"inverter",
"power bank",
"USB Power"
] | Back in the flip phone days, you could get through the whole weekend before you had to even think about plugging the thing in. But as the processing power of our mobile devices increased, so to did their energy consumption. Today you’re lucky if your phone doesn’t die before you make it home at the end of the day. To a... | 21 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154066",
"author": "no_connectivity",
"timestamp": "2019-06-05T20:44:07",
"content": "what soldering iron is that in the video",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6154088",
"author": "Sam Dickinson",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,373,890.359128 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/protect-yourself-and-your-project-while-working-with-mains-power/ | Protect Yourself — And Your Project — While Working With Mains Power | Ted Yapo | [
"The Hackaday Prize",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"2019 Hackaday Prize",
"mains power",
"variac"
] | When debugging ordinary low-voltage circuitry, you’re pretty safe: unless you have some really power-hungry devices that need a ton of current, there aren’t that many truly bad things that can happen, so you can take a lot of liberties with electrical-safety rules. With mains-powered devices, you don’t have this luxury... | 33 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154029",
"author": "mrrepel",
"timestamp": "2019-06-05T18:40:00",
"content": "You can also use an incandescent light bulb in series as current limiter, works perfect.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6154035",
"author"... | 1,760,373,890.431204 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/circuit-vr-resistance-measurement-with-four-wires/ | Circuit VR: Resistance Measurement With Four Wires | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"how-to"
] | [
"circuit vr",
"four wire",
"kelvin",
"resistance"
] | If you want to measure resistance and you know Ohm’s law, it seems like you have an easy answer, right? Feed a known current through the thing you want to measure and read the voltage required. A little math, and that’s it. Or is it? If you are measuring reasonably large resistance and you don’t mind small inaccuracies... | 13 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154006",
"author": "Wright four",
"timestamp": "2019-06-05T17:11:12",
"content": "Once I was helping my dad fix some kind of electronics project, it was really long ago so I don’t remember what it was exactly. Anyway, he asked me to read the resistance of some component. Me, being ... | 1,760,373,890.486903 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/gamifying-household-chores-helps-get-the-kids-to-pitch-in/ | Gamifying Household Chores Helps Get The Kids To Pitch In | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"chores",
"task manager"
] | It’s rare to find anyone that gets excited about doing chores. This can lead to members of a household abrogating their duties. In these cases, enforcement is a common tactic. Tired of laminated chore grids and inconsistent results,
[alastair-a] decided to tech up with an electronic chore tracking system.
[alastair-a]’... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154005",
"author": "BillyBob",
"timestamp": "2019-06-05T17:08:40",
"content": "Who is this Hoover who lives downstairs?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6154081",
"author": "BernieM",
"timestamp": "2019-06-05T2... | 1,760,373,890.737725 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/life-on-contract-product-development-lessons-big-and-small/ | Life On Contract: Product Development Lessons Big And Small | Bob Baddeley | [
"Business",
"Featured",
"Slider"
] | [
"business",
"collaboration",
"product design",
"product development"
] | Developing a product and getting it out there to build a business is really hard. Whether it’s a single person acting alone to push their passion to the public, or a giant corporation with vast resources, everyone has to go through the same basic steps, and everyone needs to screw those steps up in the same way.
The re... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6153962",
"author": "Rog Fanther",
"timestamp": "2019-06-05T14:25:08",
"content": "As for the part of “cross-functional collaboration”, just a little consideration : you need a good “scope is defined, constraints set, and level of investment negotiated ” and, along with that, good m... | 1,760,373,891.749317 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/07/this-week-in-security-nvidia-ransomware-retirement-and-a-toctou-bug-in-docker/ | This Week In Security: Nvidia, Ransomware Retirement, And A TOCTOU Bug In Docker | Jonathan Bennett | [
"computer hacks",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"Bluekeep",
"docker",
"NVIDIA",
"TOCTOU"
] | Nvidia’s GeForce Experience (GFE) is the companion application for the Nvidia drivers, keeping said drivers up to date, as well as adding features around live streaming and media capture. The application runs as two parts, a GUI, and a system service, using an HTTP API to communicate. [David Yesland] from Rhino Securit... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6154636",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2019-06-07T15:16:00",
"content": "” More efficient than a full virtual machine while boasting nearly the same security advantages…”“Nearly” for some of the audience squeaks by. I’ve heard others say Docker isn’t security.",
"parent_i... | 1,760,373,890.69547 |
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