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https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/oliver-heaviside-rags-to-recognition-to-madness/ | Oliver Heaviside: Rags To Recognition, To Madness | Dan Maloney | [
"Biography",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Original Art",
"Science",
"Slider",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"circuit theory",
"coaxial cable",
"electromagnetics",
"impedence",
"ionosphere",
"telegraph",
"transmission line"
] | Like any complex topic, electromagnetic theory has its own vocabulary. When speaking about dielectrics we may refer to their
permittivity
, and discussions on magnetic circuits might find terms like
reluctance
and
inductance
bandied about. At a more practical level, a ham radio operator might discuss the
impedance
of t... | 45 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "5372585",
"author": "Daren Schwenke",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T17:17:10",
"content": "A cross section of the man, illustrated with the man over a cross section of a coax. Nice.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5385779",
... | 1,760,374,162.30323 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/want-to-learn-ethernet-write-your-own-darn-avr-bootloader/ | Want To Learn Ethernet? Write Your Own Darn AVR Bootloader! | Elliot Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"arduino",
"atmega328",
"AVR",
"bootloader",
"ethernet",
"ip",
"tftp"
] | There’s a school of thought that says that to fully understand something, you need to build it yourself. OK, we’re not sure it’s really a school of thought, but that describes a heck of a lot of projects around these parts.
[Tim] aka [mitxela] wrote
kiloboot
partly because he wanted an Ethernet-capable Trivial File Tra... | 25 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5372404",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T15:41:22",
"content": "DARN: Dynamic Algorithm Recursive Networks?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5372410",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T15:45:46",
"c... | 1,760,374,161.991891 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/relativity-spaces-quest-to-3d-print-entire-rockets/ | Relativity Space’s Quest To 3D Print Entire Rockets | Tom Nardi | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Featured",
"hardware",
"Interest",
"Slider",
"Space"
] | [
"design",
"fabrication",
"KUKA",
"laser sintering",
"metal 3d printing",
"rocketry",
"space race"
] | While the jury is still out on 3D printing for the consumer market, there’s little question that it’s becoming a major part of next generation manufacturing. While we often think of 3D printing as a way to create highly customized one-off objects, that’s a conclusion largely based on how we as individuals use the techn... | 27 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5372246",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T14:30:52",
"content": "I think that by printing complex pieces as a single unit will improve reliability by eliminating the number of seams, seals, and fasteners needed with conventional manufacturing. Printing engines and nozzles ... | 1,760,374,162.43865 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/burn-some-time-with-this-arduino-reddit-browser/ | Burn Some Time With This Arduino Reddit Browser | Tom Nardi | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"internet hacks"
] | [
"3D printed case",
"arduino",
"desk toy",
"ILI9341",
"lcd display",
"reddit"
] | If you’re like us, you probably spend more time browsing Reddit than you’d like to admit to your friends/family/boss/therapist. A seemingly endless supply of knowledge, wisdom, and memes; getting stuck on Reddit is not unlike looking something up on Wikipedia and somehow managing to spend the next couple hours just cli... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5371777",
"author": "colin",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T11:16:44",
"content": "Gotta be water proof though",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5371851",
"author": "bufferscotch",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T11:50:52",
"conten... | 1,760,374,162.485032 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/lessons-in-disposable-design-from-a-cheap-blinky-ball/ | Lessons In Disposable Design From A Cheap Blinky Ball | Dan Maloney | [
"Teardown",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"blinkenlights",
"COB",
"decapping",
"led",
"potting",
"silicone",
"teardown",
"toy"
] | Planned obsolescence, as annoying as it is when you’re its victim, still has to be admired. You can’t help but stand in awe of the designer who somehow managed to optimize a product to live one day longer than its warranty period. Seriously, why is it always the next day?
The design of products that are never intended ... | 45 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "5371165",
"author": "Nitpicker Smartyarse",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T08:41:48",
"content": "Some corrections to the text:> You can’t help but stand in awe… yes, I can. Because the whole premise is wrong.> why is it always the next day?It is not. You simply forget about all the produ... | 1,760,374,162.678693 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/short-length-of-wire-turns-stm32-microcontroller-into-good-enough-wireless-uart-blaster/ | Short Length Of Wire Turns STM32 Microcontroller Into Good-enough Wireless UART Blaster | Brian Boucheron | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"arm",
"gnu radio",
"radio",
"stm32",
"wireless"
] | Hackaday regular [befinitiv] wrote into the tip line to let us know about a hack you might enjoy,
wireless UART output from a bare STM32 microcontroller
. Desiring the full printf debugging experience, but constrained both by available space and expense, [befinitiv] was inspired to improvise by a similar hack that used... | 22 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5370425",
"author": "Mike Massen",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T05:35:56",
"content": "Hjmm right up my alley circa mid 1990’s then again 2000 to 2005, thanks :-) Nice idea, if it can go through a comb and do higher pocsag accepted frequencies would be great as I have heaps of those pag... | 1,760,374,162.367241 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/new-part-day-sts-new-3d-printer-motor-driver/ | New Part Day: ST’s New 3D Printer Motor Driver | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"hardware"
] | [
"motor driver",
"stepper motor",
"stepper motor driver",
"STSPIN820"
] | ST has released
a new evaluation board for a stepper motor driver
. It’ll plug right into your 3D printer, and if you’re looking for a chip to build a cheap 3D printer controller board around, this might be the one.
We’ve come a long way in the field of stepper motor drivers in just a few short years. The first popular... | 21 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5368721",
"author": "Dielectric",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T02:14:52",
"content": "I wouldn’t worry about that scant dozen boards. If these ST drivers are any good, we’ll be able to bucketloads from AliExpress or BangGood as soon as they copy the eval board.",
"parent_id": null,... | 1,760,374,162.215478 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/low-cost-autonomous-rover-will-drive-your-projects/ | Low-cost Autonomous Rover Will Drive Your Projects | Tom Nardi | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"autonomous",
"HC-SR04",
"obstacle avoidance",
"python",
"raspberry pi",
"robot"
] | [Miguel] wanted to get more hands-on experience with Python, so
he created a small robotic platform as a testbed
. But as such things sometimes go, it turns out the robot he created is a worthy enough project in its own right. With a low total cost and highly flexible design, it might be exactly what you’re looking for... | 3 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "5385236",
"author": "Deleted",
"timestamp": "2018-11-01T16:17:22",
"content": "More than $100 in parts isn’t too low-cost.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5385295",
"author": "Cheap Bot",
"timestamp": "2018-11-... | 1,760,374,162.038404 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/prototype-proves-wii-was-two-gamecubes-taped-together-all-along/ | Prototype Proves Wii Was Two Gamecubes Taped Together All Along | Drew Littrell | [
"Games"
] | [
"nintendo wii",
"videogames",
"wii",
"wii remote"
] | Say what you will about Nintendo’s little purple lunchbox, the GameCube, but it was home to many delightful experiences from Super Smash Bros. Melee to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. We now know it was also home to
one of the very first Nintendo Wii remotes
as well thanks to the recent listing from [Kuriaisu11... | 26 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5366961",
"author": "kopo",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T20:07:57",
"content": "I hate console gaming because when I was young the best I could afford was a famiclone (“pegazus”) and even for that I had to save all my pocket money for 1.5 years.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,162.553258 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/the-incredible-judges-of-the-hackaday-prize-4/ | The Incredible Judges Of The Hackaday Prize | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"2018 Hackaday Superconference"
] | The time to enter
The Hackaday Prize
has ended, but that doesn’t mean we’re done with the world’s greatest hardware competition just yet. Over the past few months, we’ve gotten a sneak peek at over a thousand amazing projects, from Open Hardware to Human Computer Interfaces. This is a contest, though, and to decide the... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,374,162.598204 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/history-of-white-leds/ | History Of White LEDs | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"Blue LEDs",
"Chemistry",
"history",
"led"
] | Compared to incandescent lightbulbs, LEDs produce a lot more lumens per watt of input power — they’re more efficient at producing light. Of course, that means that incandescent light bulbs are more efficient at producing heat, and as the days get shorter, and the nights get colder, somewhere, someone who took the leap... | 122 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "5366101",
"author": "C. Scott Ananian",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T17:11:34",
"content": "Should probably be mentioned that in most (all?) homes the furnace is much more efficient at converting energy into heat than an incandescent lightbulb would be. The net effect of converting to L... | 1,760,374,163.054448 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/supercon-is-sold-out-join-us-on-the-live-streams-and-chat-rooms/ | Supercon Is Sold Out, Join Us On The Live Streams And Chat Rooms | Mike Szczys | [
"cons"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Superconference",
"live stream",
"livestream",
"sold out"
] | Over the weekend, the last available tickets to the
Hackaday Superconference
vanished. This will be the fullest, most exciting, hack-packed Supercon ever.
We’ve always had a stunning slate of speakers. It’s hard to objectively say we will top previous years, but yes
this collection of talks
is an insane concentration o... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "5366722",
"author": "gbushta",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T19:21:12",
"content": "Will there be a meetup on Thursday evening? Perhaps at a pub or restaurant nearby?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,374,163.092974 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/open-data-cam-combines-camera-gpu-and-neural-network-in-an-artisanal-diy-cereal-box/ | Open Data Cam Combines Camera, GPU, And Neural Network In An Artisanal DIY Cereal Box | Brian Boucheron | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"ai",
"camera",
"gpu",
"neural network",
"Nvidia Jetson",
"webcam",
"YOLO"
] | The engineers and product designers at [moovel lab] have created the Open Data Cam – an AI camera platform that can identify and count objects as they move through its field of view – along with
an open source guide for making your own
.
Step one: get out your ruler and utility knife. In this world of ubiquitous 3D-pri... | 13 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5365720",
"author": "TheRegnirps.",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T15:41:41",
"content": "Alex, I’ll take Arti’s Anal for $600.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5366099",
"author": "Justin",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T1... | 1,760,374,163.142612 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/31/when-good-software-goes-bad-malware-in-open-source/ | When Good Software Goes Bad: Malware In Open Source | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Featured",
"Security Hacks",
"Software Development"
] | [
"computer security",
"operating systems"
] | Open Source software is always trustworthy, right? [Bertus] broke a story about
a malicious Python package
called “Colourama”. When used, it secretly installs a VBscript that watches the system clipboard for a Bitcoin address, and replaces that address with a hardcoded one. Essentially this plugin attempts to redirects... | 28 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5378860",
"author": "AVR",
"timestamp": "2018-10-31T14:14:31",
"content": "something something, always build from source, something something package managers are the devil, something something use slackware, something something",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies"... | 1,760,374,163.623477 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/31/helium-can-stop-your-iphone-maybe-other-mems-too/ | Helium Can Stop Your IPhone — Maybe Other MEMS, Too | Al Williams | [
"iphone hacks",
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"helium",
"iphone",
"MEMS"
] | Sometimes hacking isn’t as much about building something, it’s about getting to the root of a particularly difficult problem. [Erik Wooldrige] was facing a problem like that. He’s a system specialist at a hospital near Chicago. Suddenly a bunch of iPhones and Apple watches were failing or glitching. The only thing anyo... | 115 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "5378147",
"author": "Mike Massen",
"timestamp": "2018-10-31T11:06:36",
"content": "Geesh, what an interesting issue, looking forward to appropriately ‘inspired’ comments not of any sort of religious idolatry nature to corporates such as Apple or any supplier for that matter ;-)",
... | 1,760,374,163.506041 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/31/led-stick-person-costume-lights-up-the-night/ | LED Stick Person Costume Lights Up The Night | Drew Littrell | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"el wire",
"halloween costume",
"homemade",
"LED string"
] | Sometimes a simple idea can yield fantastic results. A few runs of LED strips fastened to a black hoody and sweatpants and just like that…
a LED stick person costume
for Halloween. The creator of the “Glowy Zoey” [Royce] originally put together some glow in the dark stick person suits to stand out when hitting the slop... | 16 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5377383",
"author": "Sheldon",
"timestamp": "2018-10-31T09:06:25",
"content": "” It wouldn’t be that much a stretch to substitute EL wire in place of the LED strips if one were so inclined.”Having a look at some of the photos on their website where they compare the cheaper versions ... | 1,760,374,163.246447 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/learn-to-optimize-code-in-assembly-for-android/ | Learn To Optimize Code In Assembly… For Android | Bryan Cockfield | [
"ARM"
] | [
"android",
"assembly",
"code",
"hello world",
"language",
"optimization",
"program"
] | When programming a microcontroller, there are some physical limitations that you’ll come across much earlier than programming a modern computer, whether that’s program size or even processor speed. To make the most use of a small chip, we can easily dig into the assembly language to optimize our code. On the other hand... | 11 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5375494",
"author": "Steven Clark",
"timestamp": "2018-10-31T05:06:32",
"content": "It’s not ARM or Intel assembly, but MIPS has a wonderful set of simulators thanks to it’s use teaching in universities. Last I checked Mars was the best of these, not that it’s under very active dev... | 1,760,374,163.186913 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/a-bluetooth-upgrade-for-an-unusual-set-of-headphones/ | A Bluetooth Upgrade For An Unusual Set Of Headphones | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"headphones",
"two-way radio"
] | We will have all picked up something from a junk pile or swap meet in our time that caught our eye not because we needed it but because it looked
cool.
[Quinn Dunki] did just that with
an irresistible set of 1980s air traffic control headphones
. What did she do with them? Turn them into a set of Bluetooth headphones o... | 11 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5374753",
"author": "drwho8 (@drwho8)",
"timestamp": "2018-10-31T02:40:03",
"content": "However the cat photo made the story all the more better to read.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5378971",
"author": "Martin",
... | 1,760,374,163.55533 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/kepler-closes-eyes-after-a-decade-of-discovery/ | Kepler Closes Eyes After A Decade Of Discovery | Tom Nardi | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Slider",
"Space"
] | [
"exoplanet",
"Galaxy",
"hacking when it counts",
"Hubble",
"james webb space telescope",
"Kepler",
"milky way",
"nasa",
"observatory",
"TESS"
] | Since its launch in March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has provided us with an incredible amount of data about exoplanets within our galaxy, proving these worlds are more varied and numerous than we could ever have imagined. Before its launch we simply didn’t know how common planets such as ours were, but today we ... | 16 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5373588",
"author": "Bill Richman",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T22:08:47",
"content": "It’s always sad when one of these missions comes to an end, but it sounds like Kepler was worth every penny spent on it and then some. So what becomes of it now? Is it in a stable orbit, or is it “... | 1,760,374,163.679482 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/apple-introduces-what-weve-all-been-waiting-for/ | Apple Introduces What We’ve All Been Waiting For | Brian Benchoff | [
"classic hacks",
"Mac Hacks"
] | [
"apple",
"Apple Logo"
] | The biggest news this week comes from Apple. There’s a new Mac Mini (the press copy says it makes a great digital signage platform but we’ll stick to our Raspberry Pis), a gigantic iPad that costs $1900, and the MacBook Air gets a display with more than 900 pixels of horizontal resolution. It’s big news, but this isn’t... | 66 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "5373142",
"author": "Nud3lsuppe",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T20:16:30",
"content": "Not a hack!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5373162",
"author": "Xerxes3rd",
"timestamp": "2018-10-30T20:19:34",
"conten... | 1,760,374,163.784585 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/seth-molson-is-designing-the-future-one-show-at-a-time/ | Seth Molson Is Designing The Future, One Show At A Time | Tom Nardi | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Interviews",
"Slider"
] | [
"animation",
"art",
"computer animation",
"design",
"entertainment",
"Hacking in the media",
"sci-fi",
"user interface"
] | From the banks of levers and steam gauges of 1927’s
Metropolis
to the multicolored jewels that the crew would knowingly tap on in the original
Star Trek
, the entertainment industry has always struggled with producing imagery of advanced technology. Whether constrained by budget or imagination, portrayals usually go in... | 27 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "5365677",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T15:12:04",
"content": "An article outside the mainstream of HaD.I like it!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5366032",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-... | 1,760,374,163.856107 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/creating-a-3g-raspberry-pi-smartphone/ | Creating A 3G Raspberry Pi Smartphone | Tom Nardi | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"3g",
"adafruit fona",
"cellular",
"smartphone"
] | It’s hard to believe, but the Raspberry Pi has now been around long enough that some of the earliest Pi projects could nearly be considered bonafide vintage hacks at this point. A perfect example are some of the DIY Raspberry Pi smartphone projects that sprung up a few years back. Few of them were terribly practical to... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5365221",
"author": "CRImier",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T11:47:52",
"content": "Yay for more DIY cellphones! SIM5320 is a really cool modem, but if you want to use it, better connect it through the USB port – you get whole 4 serial ports and a wwan0 interface, which is better than a... | 1,760,374,163.966644 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/29/parcelcopter-drone-project-delivers-in-rough-terrain/ | Parcelcopter Drone Project Delivers In Rough Terrain | Drew Littrell | [
"drone hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"autonomous delivery",
"drone",
"mail"
] | It’s a known fact that the last mile is also the longest mile in the parcel delivery service. The further removed from a hub city a delivery location is, the more required stops in between. Every part of the process slows to a glacial pace when the drop-off spot is inaccessible by land or air. Now apply this in the cas... | 33 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "5364614",
"author": "Bill",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T09:34:45",
"content": "Awesome!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5364890",
"author": "sjw",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T10:10:00",
"content": "Inaccessible by air?",
... | 1,760,374,164.037315 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/28/a-tour-through-the-archetypical-asian-factory/ | A Tour Through The Archetypical Asian Factory | Kerry Scharfglass | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"Asia",
"china",
"factory",
"factory tour",
"freewrite",
"manufacturing",
"tour",
"video"
] | Overseas factories can be sort of a mythical topic. News articles remind us that Flex (née Flextronics) employs nearly 200 thousand employees worldwide or that Foxconn is up to nearly a million. It must take an Apple-level of insider knowledge and capital to organize such a behemoth workforce, certainly something well ... | 51 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5362893",
"author": "nobody",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T05:50:30",
"content": "Shooting the entire video in portrait mode was pretty bad – makes this difficult to even watch.For the confused:https://www.wired.com/2013/08/tnhyut-video-in-portrait-mode/",
"parent_id": null,
"de... | 1,760,374,164.133609 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/28/unicycle-given-a-hand-crafted-gear-box/ | Unicycle Given A Hand Crafted Gear Box | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"axle",
"bicycle",
"fixed",
"gear",
"gearing",
"hub",
"Planet",
"ratio",
"unicycle"
] | Being able to coast on a bicycle is a feature that is often taken for granted. The use of a freewheel was an improvement made early in the bicycle’s history, for obvious reasons. This also unlocked the ability to build bikes with multiple gears, allowing higher speeds to be easily reached. On a unicycle, however, there... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5362677",
"author": "Pez",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T04:27:36",
"content": "Incredible build ..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5362866",
"author": "BillSF9c",
"timestamp": "2018-10-29T05:42:55",
"content": "I underst... | 1,760,374,164.228794 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/28/hackaday-links-october-28-2018/ | Hackaday Links: October 28, 2018 | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Superconference",
"NeXT",
"steve jobs",
"Superconference",
"vtol",
"VTOL plane"
] | Steve Jobs was actually a good designer and CEO. This is a statement that would have been met with derision in 2010, with stories of a ‘reality distortion field’. We’re coming up on a decade in the post-Jobs era, and if there’s one thing the last seven or eight years can tell us, it’s that Jobs
really, really knew how ... | 11 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5361825",
"author": "Anonymous",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T23:10:08",
"content": "Refering to the Apple device: Electromagnetic Levitatorhttps://patents.google.com/patent/US20170063194/enInventor: Paul PuskarichClark D. Della Silva CurrentAssignee: Apple Inc",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,374,164.183203 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/28/the-ultimate-midi-wind-controller-is-the-human-voice/ | The Ultimate MIDI Wind Controller Is The Human Voice | Brian Benchoff | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"midi",
"wind controller"
] | When it comes to music, the human voice is the most incredible instrument. From Tuvan throat singing to sopranos belting out an aria, the human vocal tract has evolved over millions of years to be the greatest musical instrument. We haven’t quite gotten to the point where we can implant autotune in our vocal cords, but... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5361469",
"author": "bty",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T20:29:05",
"content": "very impressive!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5361481",
"author": "RunnerPack",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T20:36:20",
"content": "Holophoner... | 1,760,374,164.381835 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/28/easy-blinking-led-eyes-for-halloween/ | Easy Blinking LED Eyes For Halloween | Tom Nardi | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Holiday Hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"cardboard",
"halloween decorations",
"led",
"monster",
"random number generator"
] | There’s not much time left now. If you’re going to put something together to give the youngsters some night terrors in exchange for all that sweet candy, you better do it quick. This late to the game you might not have time to do anything too elaborate, but luckily we’ve come across a few quick Halloween hacks that can... | 16 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5361299",
"author": "JD",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T19:20:03",
"content": "Shooting birds with cannons.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5361489",
"author": "captnmike",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T20:41:24",
"content": "... | 1,760,374,164.544748 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/28/making-pcbs-with-a-cutting-plotter/ | Making PCBs With A Cutting Plotter | Maya Posch | [
"how-to"
] | [
"Additive Manufacturing",
"custom PCB",
"cutting plotter",
"homemade PCBs"
] | [LudwigLabs] is
creating PCBs using copper foil
and a cutting plotter (vinyl cutter). In this approach, it’s an additive process where instead of removing copper from a copper-clad board, the traces are cut out of copper foil and transferred to a solid backing surface (cardboard, fiberglass, etc.).
While similar to the... | 26 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5360596",
"author": "Mbc",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T14:27:44",
"content": "It would be interesting to see a hybrid approach to make a 4 layer board, use photmask/etch to create a double sided board with the thinner traces (for comms?) And then use this technique to add two more for ... | 1,760,374,164.654814 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/28/brain-cell-electronics-explains-wetware-computing-power/ | Brain Cell Electronics Explains Wetware Computing Power | Al Williams | [
"Medical Hacks",
"News"
] | [
"brain",
"dendrite",
"mit",
"neural network",
"neuron"
] | Neural networks use electronic analogs of the neurons in our brains. But it doesn’t seem likely that just making enough electronic neurons would create a human-brain-like thinking machine. Consider that animal brains are sometimes larger than ours — a sperm whale’s brain weighs 17 pounds — yet we don’t think they are a... | 10 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5360383",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T11:48:44",
"content": "There’s also “Reduced ion channel densities in human dendrites” as well.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5360417",
"author": "Luke",
"timest... | 1,760,374,164.588132 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/28/with-grinning-keyboard-and-sleek-design-this-synth-shows-it-all/ | With Grinning Keyboard And Sleek Design, This Synth Shows It All | Donald Papp | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"3d printed",
"Belt Buckle",
"milled pcb",
"music",
"othermill",
"pcb",
"prototype",
"sequencer",
"stylish!",
"stylophone",
"synth",
"synthesizer"
] | Stylish!
is a wearable music synthesizer that combines slick design with stylus based operation to yield a giant trucker-style belt buckle that can pump out electronic tunes. With a PCB keyboard and LED-surrounded inset speaker that resembles an eyeball over a wide grin,
Stylish! certainly has a unique look to it.
Othe... | 24 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5359887",
"author": "none",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T08:10:52",
"content": "> The photo shown is a render, but …It can’t be both, or can it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5361969",
"author": "Tim Trzepacz",
"... | 1,760,374,164.723788 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/27/new-avr-iot-board-connects-to-google/ | New AVR-IOT Board Connects To Google | Al Williams | [
"Parts",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"Amtel",
"ATECC608A",
"ATmega4808",
"ATWINC1510",
"AVR",
"dev board",
"IoT",
"microchip",
"nEDBG",
"wifi"
] | Readers of Hackaday are no strangers to using a microcontroller to push data to WiFi. Even before the ESP8266 there were a variety of ways to do that. Now Microchip is joining the fray with a $29 board
called the AVR-IOT WG
that contains an 8-bit ATmega4808, a WiFi controller, and hardware-based crypto chip for authent... | 27 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "5359547",
"author": "Clemens",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T05:34:06",
"content": "With boards like these I always wonder what niche they are supposed to fill.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5359576",
"author": "TGT",
... | 1,760,374,164.788539 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/27/custom-led-signage-from-household-items/ | Custom LED Signage From Household Items | Tom Nardi | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"cardboard",
"decoration",
"led",
"paper",
"signage"
] | We’ll admit it: sometimes we overthink things. We imagine some of you are the same way; there seems to be something in the hacker mentality that drives us to occasionally over-engineer ideas to the point of unrecognizability. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this, but sometimes it does keep us from seeing easier s... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5359340",
"author": "regdog",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T04:21:49",
"content": "I like my big non electric 7 segment display much better. It is more of a real sign. It can take the elements and it is large. It also has the coolness factor of looking high tech while being super low ... | 1,760,374,164.833022 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/27/piano-genie-trained-a-neural-net-to-play-88-key-piano-with-8-arcade-buttons/ | Piano Genie Trained A Neural Net To Play 88-Key Piano With 8 Arcade Buttons | Steven Dufresne | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"DeepMind",
"google",
"machine learning",
"midi",
"neural network",
"piano"
] | Want to sound great on a Piano using only your coding skills? Enter
Piano Genie
, the result of a research project from Google AI and DeepMind. You press any of eight buttons while a neural network makes sure the piano plays something cool — compensating in real time for what’s already been played.
Almost anyone new to... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5358658",
"author": "Kerry Scharfglass",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T00:54:20",
"content": "It’s like Hacker Typer [1] for a piano![1]https://hackertyper.net/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5358907",
"author": "Greenaum",
... | 1,760,374,164.882136 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/27/chiptunes-in-an-altoids-tin/ | Chiptunes In An Altoids Tin | Brian Benchoff | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"altoid",
"altoids",
"altoids tin",
"chiptunes"
] | For [Dejan]’s entry to the Musical Instrument Challenge in this year’s Hackaday Prize, he’s tapping into some of the great work that has been done over the years to bring bleeps and bloops to the masses. He’s building a drum machine, a bass synth, and an arpeggiator that fits in your pocket, in a handy form factor that... | 8 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5358520",
"author": "RÖB",
"timestamp": "2018-10-28T00:14:41",
"content": "This project has Software Flow Charts, full State Machine diagrams and an extensive construction manual. The schematic is actually a full schematic rather than a glorified netlist.This is how older and educat... | 1,760,374,164.924222 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/27/travel-to-mercury-on-ion-power/ | Travel To Mercury On Ion Power | Al Williams | [
"News",
"Solar Hacks",
"Space"
] | [
"ESA",
"ion propulsion",
"JAXA",
"mercury",
"rocket",
"solar electric motor",
"space",
"xenon"
] | Star Trek — as much as we love it — was guilty sometimes of a bit of hyperbole and more than its share of inconsistency. In some episodes, ion drives were advanced technology and in others they were obsolete. Make up your mind!
The ESA-JAXA
BepiColombo
probe is on its way to Mercury riding on four ion thrusters develop... | 69 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "5356395",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2018-10-27T17:43:18",
"content": "They’re just keeping with the Star Trek theme, where they switched units from show to show.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5356399",
"author": "Alek... | 1,760,374,165.034339 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/27/this-rc-fortnite-rocket-is-a-victory-royale/ | This RC Fortnite Rocket Is A Victory Royale | Brian Benchoff | [
"Games"
] | [
"Fortnite",
"Fortnite dance",
"kids"
] | Minecraft is over and Red Dead Redemption II has barely even started yet. The biggest thing on the planet right now is Fortnite, and
oh man
, is it awesome. It’s the best game ever, and we wish every day was a Battle Royale. But what if Fortnite was real life? That’s exactly what [Giaco] and [David] did
when they made ... | 13 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5355811",
"author": "Jay",
"timestamp": "2018-10-27T14:38:47",
"content": "Is that a second plane stuck in the same tree to the right of the rocket?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5356327",
"author": "Pez",
"t... | 1,760,374,165.081472 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/27/the-bolt-on-peristaltic-pump/ | The Bolt-On Peristaltic Pump | Lewin Day | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printer",
"peristaltic pump",
"pump"
] | With the proliferation of 3D printing in the new millennium, stepper motors are no longer those idle junkbox inhabitants you pulled out of a dot matrix in 1994 and forgot about ever since. NEMA standard parts are readily available and knocking about just about everywhere. Now, you can readily turn a stepper motor into ... | 8 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5355370",
"author": "Mike",
"timestamp": "2018-10-27T12:08:55",
"content": "Looks nice, one thing to be aware of if using this to deliver metered quantities is that the tubing will age as it is worked and you’ll get a variation in delivered rates. If you need exact flow rates then i... | 1,760,374,165.235321 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/27/hardware-controllers-for-software-effects/ | Hardware Controllers For Software Effects | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"Musical Instrument Challnege",
"synthesi"
] | There is an interesting multi-effect available for all you musicians out there. It’s the Turnado from Sugar Bytes. It’s a real-time effects unit that takes advantage of a computer’s horsepower to add reverb and ring mods to whatever audio you feed into it. There’s flanger and a phaser. If you feed a drum loop into your... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5354887",
"author": "RÖB",
"timestamp": "2018-10-27T09:47:11",
"content": "This unit looks so good. Well done.In wonder why the “y” from the joystick was left out only leaving “x”. I would have multiplexed the encoders to ensure there were enough analogue input pins to read the “y” ... | 1,760,374,165.186919 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/rebuilding-an-amiga-500-psu/ | Rebuilding An Amiga 500 PSU | Tom Nardi | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"Amiga 500",
"electrolytic capacitor",
"psu",
"rebuild",
"recapping",
"vintage computing"
] | One of the challenges of keeping a vintage computer up and running is the limited availability of spare parts. While not everything has hit dire levels of availability (not yet, anyway), it goes without saying that getting a replacement part for a 30+ year old computer is a bit harder than hitting up the local electron... | 23 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5354084",
"author": "jibé",
"timestamp": "2018-10-27T06:02:24",
"content": "[Useless comment removed]",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5354131",
"author": "josiahgould",
"timestamp": "2018-10-27T06:13:37",
... | 1,760,374,165.298094 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/failing-at-making-ferrofluid/ | Failing At Making Ferrofluid | Al Williams | [
"chemistry hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"ferrofluid",
"nanoparticles"
] | [NileRed] admits that while ferrofluid has practical uses, he simply wanted to play with it and didn’t want to pay the high prices he found in Canada. A lot of the instructions he found were not for making a true ferrofluid. He set out to create the real thing, but he wasn’t entirely successful. You can see
the results... | 17 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5353657",
"author": "PWalsh",
"timestamp": "2018-10-27T04:17:32",
"content": "More failures, please. Also, I greatly enjoy chemistry hacks. Despite not being successful, this was very informative.I’ve never tried making ferrofluid, but I’ve made copper nanoparticles. In that process... | 1,760,374,165.471771 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/ghost-rider-costume-is-smoking-hot/ | Ghost Rider Costume Is Smoking Hot | Lewin Day | [
"Holiday Hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"3d printer",
"e-cig",
"e-cigarette",
"ghost rider",
"halloween",
"led",
"leds",
"skull",
"smoke",
"smoke machine",
"vape",
"vape pen"
] | It’s that spooky time of year once again, with pumpkins and cobwebs as far as the eye can see. This year, [Mikeasaurus] has put together something really special –
a Ghost Rider costume with some amazing effects
.
The costume starts with the skull mask, which started with
a model from Thingiverse
. Conveniently, the mo... | 20 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5352261",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T23:22:26",
"content": "That’s pretty good. Better than coming as Lobos, or the Punisher.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5352442",
"author": "stickben",
"timestamp... | 1,760,374,165.526647 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/kinetic-sculpture-achieves-balance-through-machine-learning/ | Kinetic Sculpture Achieves Balance Through Machine Learning | Dan Maloney | [
"Art",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"ai",
"arduino",
"atmega 328p",
"hx711",
"kinetic sculpture",
"load cell",
"machine learning",
"Q-behave",
"strain gauge"
] | We all know how important it is to achieve balance in life, or at least so the self-help industry tells us. How exactly to achieve balance is generally left as an exercise to the individual, however, with varying results. But what about our machines? Will there come a day when artificial intelligences and their robotic... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5351413",
"author": "ozon",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T20:17:04",
"content": "Great!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5351440",
"author": "Bubul",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T20:24:38",
"content": "Doesn’t look like the ma... | 1,760,374,165.418058 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/gutters-to-gardens-the-iot-rain-barrel/ | Gutters To Gardens: The IoT Rain Barrel | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"garden",
"gardens",
"gutters"
] | There’s nothing quite like having a garden in your backyard. You get tomatoes with
flavor
. Fresh herbs are easy. If you’d like to go crazy, you can always grow a gigantic pumpkin. But there’s a problem with gardening: the work. You’ve got to water, and you’ve got to weed. You’ve also got to deal with the thousand lady... | 14 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5351031",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T18:40:33",
"content": "Reading this, next year I should hook my rain barrel up to the solar power, and have it operate a solenoid to gravity feed rainwater to the garden.I know HaD has covered soil moisture sensors in the past, a t... | 1,760,374,165.672965 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/books-you-should-read-designing-reality/ | Books You Should Read: Designing Reality | Sonya Vasquez | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackerspaces"
] | [
"books you should read",
"digital",
"fab lab",
"neil gershenfeld"
] | These days, budget CNC builds are mainstream. Homebrew 3D printers and even laser cutters are old hats. Now I find myself constantly asking: “where’s it all going?” In the book,
Designing Reality
, Prof Neil Gershenfeld and his two brothers, Alan and Joel, team up to answer that question. In 250 pages, they forecast a ... | 16 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5350770",
"author": "Wordy McConfused",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T17:25:07",
"content": "Ok.I get the fuzzy, blurry squiggly line that represents the boundary between hackerspace and makerspace. Where does fab lab fit in?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,374,165.730357 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/competitive-surface-mount-soldering-comes-to-supercon/ | Competitive Surface Mount Soldering Comes To Supercon | Al Williams | [
"News"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Superconference",
"SMD Challenge",
"smd soldering challenge"
] | Who will show the best soldering skills at the
Hackaday Superconference
next week? We have a little — in fact, a very little — challenge for you: solder surface mount components down to a tiny 0201 package. This is the SMD Soldering Challenge and successfully finishing the board at all shows off the best of hand solder... | 26 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5350623",
"author": "nixieguy",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T16:03:53",
"content": "I’m in!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5350667",
"author": "Anonymous",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T16:29:57",
"content": "Not that I go t... | 1,760,374,165.849653 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/a-multifunction-esp8266-smartwatch/ | A Multifunction ESP8266 Smartwatch | Tom Nardi | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"ESP8266",
"home automation",
"ntp",
"oled",
"smartwatch",
"weather"
] | Most of the DIY smartwatch projects we feature here on Hackaday aren’t exactly what most people would consider practical daily-use devices. Clunky designs, short battery life, limited functions: they’re more a wearable display of geek cred than they are functional timepieces. Oddly enough, the same could be said of man... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5350587",
"author": "Shara",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T15:52:21",
"content": "Forgot about DC adapter.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nJh6RH3bzw",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5350748",
"author": "GameboyRMH",
... | 1,760,374,165.781259 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/dmca-review-big-win-for-right-to-repair-zero-for-right-to-tinker/ | DMCA Review: Big Win For Right To Repair, Zero For Right To Tinker | Elliot Williams | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"News",
"Repair Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"dmca",
"drm",
"jailbreak",
"library of congress",
"right to repair"
] | This year’s
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) triennial review
(PDF, legalese) contained some great news. Particularly, breaking encryption in a product in order to repair it has been deemed legal, and a previous exemption for reverse engineering 3D printer firmware to use the filament of your choice has been bro... | 35 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "5350449",
"author": "Ted",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T14:31:01",
"content": "Good article. In semi-related news, Motorola has become the first manufacturer to offer repair kits for their smartphones (screens and batteries, anyway).https://www.techspot.com/community/topics/motorola-bec... | 1,760,374,165.979482 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/childs-pushcar-gets-serious-horsepower/ | Child’s Pushcar Gets Serious Horsepower | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks"
] | [] | A pushcar is a great toy for a young child. They’re great excercise, and kids love anything on wheels. However, the bigger kids might want something with a little more grunt.
[Master Milo] has just the thing – an engine from a concrete saw and the fabrication skills to match
. (YouTube, embedded below.)
The build start... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5350226",
"author": "Adam",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T11:39:30",
"content": "I wish there was a good EU equivalent to McMaster, INDI is netherlands only and they block IPs from anywhere outside nl. I am from the uk and even misumi is trade only, best we have (that I know of) is MSC a... | 1,760,374,165.897538 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/emmc-data-recovery-from-a-bricked-phone/ | EMMC Data Recovery From A Bricked Phone | Jenny List | [
"Cellphone Hacks"
] | [
"cell phone",
"data retrieval",
"emmc"
] | We’ve probably all got at least one old cell phone lurking somewhere around our bench. In most cases they’ll still work, but their batteries may be exhausted and their OS could be an ancient version. But sometimes there will be a phone that just died. One minute the flagship model, the next a useless slab of plastic a... | 15 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5349636",
"author": "paul",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T09:12:51",
"content": "I like the Idea of the Odroid’s from Hardkernel.These are small Linux computers ( Just like Beaglebone, Cubieboard, Orange pi and many others) and they have a nice feature where they put the EMMC module on a... | 1,760,374,166.027734 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/25/diy-tuning-capacitors-from-washers-and-3d-printed-parts/ | DIY Tuning Capacitors From Washers And 3D-Printed Parts | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"capacitor",
"home brew",
"plate",
"radio",
"tuning capacitor",
"variable capacitor",
"washer",
"wiper"
] | The inside of classic radios holds wonders that the sterile chips and SMD components of today’s circuits can’t hold a candle to. Chunky resistors and capacitors, vacuum tubes with cathodes aglow, and seemingly free-form loops of wire forming inductors will all likely make an appearance. But the most fascinating bit of ... | 34 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5349043",
"author": "Mr Name Required",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T05:57:30",
"content": "Nice example of building an electronic component from first principles, thanks for showing.My sense of aesthetics then takes over and ponders why after a lot of work went into the 3D CAD model of... | 1,760,374,167.932928 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/25/paper-airplane-database-has-the-wright-stuff/ | Paper Airplane Database Has The Wright Stuff | Al Williams | [
"drone hacks"
] | [
"airplane",
"flight",
"paper airplanes"
] | We’ve always had a fascination with things that fly. Sure, drones are the latest incarnation of that, but there have been RC planes, kites, and all sorts of flying toys and gizmos even before manned flight was possible. Maybe the first model flying machine you had was a paper airplane. There’s some debate, but it appea... | 27 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5348301",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T02:08:13",
"content": "“We’ve always had a fascination with things that fly.”*gets out the fly swatter*",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5348642",
"author": "Gunp... | 1,760,374,167.779981 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/25/vinduino-water-smart-farming-now-with-lora/ | Vinduino Water-Smart Farming – Now With LoRa! | Roger Cheng | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"green hacks"
] | [
"2015 Hackaday Prize",
"2018 Hackaday Superconference",
"agriculture",
"Hackaday Prize",
"Hackaday Supercon",
"Hackaday SuperConference",
"irrigation",
"irrigation controller",
"LoRa",
"soil moisture sensor",
"the hackaday prize",
"Vinduino",
"water conservation",
"water irrigation"
] | Our five rounds of Hackaday Prize 2018 challenges have just wrapped up, and we’re looking forward to see where the chips fall in the final ranking. While we’re waiting for the winners to be announced at Hackaday Superconference, it’s fun to take a look back at one of our past winners. Watch [Reinier van der Lee]
give t... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5348972",
"author": "Luke",
"timestamp": "2018-10-26T05:26:34",
"content": "LoRa is more hacker friendly because you can set up your own base station and network infrastructure, but the hardware is more expensive because it’s proprietary to a single company.",
"parent_id": null,... | 1,760,374,167.668485 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/25/looks-like-a-glove-plays-like-a-musical-instrument/ | Looks Like A Glove, Plays Like A Musical Instrument | Donald Papp | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"Curie",
"curienano",
"glove",
"IMU",
"instrument",
"intel",
"musical instrument",
"xbee"
] | The
GePS
is a musical project that shows how important integration work is when it comes to gesture controls. Creators [Cedric Spindler] and [Frederic Robinson] demonstrate how the output of a hand-mounted IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) and magnetometer can be used to turn motion, gestures, and quick snap movements in... | 8 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5346416",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-25T18:37:01",
"content": "Imagine the Pointer Sisters could have used something like this.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5346421",
"author": "walter",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,374,167.714073 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/25/what-can-the-blockchain-do-for-you/ | What Can The Blockchain Do For You? | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"blockchain",
"blockchain tech",
"crypto",
"cryptocurrency"
] | Imagine you’re a general, camped outside a fortified city with your army. Your army isn’t strong enough to take the city without help. But you
do
have help: camped on other hills outside this city are a half dozen more generals, with their armies ready to attack. Attacking one army at a time will fail; taking this city... | 40 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "5346260",
"author": "contextswitching",
"timestamp": "2018-10-25T17:18:51",
"content": "Cryptocurrency… Yup, the primary usage of blockchain is enable you to pay the ransom and hope you can recover the content of that HDD you didn’t back up…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,168.014772 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/25/supercon-badge-hardware-hacking-heres-what-to-bring/ | Supercon Badge Hardware Hacking: Here’s What To Bring | Roger Cheng | [
"cons",
"hardware"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Superconference",
"badge",
"badge hacking",
"badgelife",
"basic",
"basic interpreter",
"expansion port",
"firmware",
"firmware hack",
"firmware hacking",
"Microchip PIC",
"pic32",
"pic32mx",
"retro computer",
"retro computing",
"retrocomputer",
"retrocomputing",
"ser... | Hackaday Superconference is just a week away (
precious few tickets remain
), a celebration of all things Hackaday, which naturally includes creative projects making the most of their hardware. Every attendee gets a platform for hacking in the form of the
conference badge
.
To make the most of your badge hacking fun, p... | 29 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5346228",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2018-10-25T16:53:13",
"content": "ahhhh… the PICkit3… it reminds me of the PICkit2, which was the best programmer I ever owned. The PICkit2 software did what it had to do and it did that just fine without any fuss. The programmer software eve... | 1,760,374,168.314976 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/25/hurdy-gurdy-gets-modernized-with-midi-upgrades/ | Hurdy-Gurdy Gets Modernized With MIDI Upgrades | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"features",
"harmony",
"hurdy gurdy",
"interface",
"midi",
"music",
"string",
"violin"
] | If you’ve never heard a hurdy-gurdy before, you’re in for a treat. Not many people have, since they’re instruments which are uncommon outside of some eastern European communities. Think of a violin that replaces the bow with a hand-cranked wheel, and adds some extra strings that function similar to drones on a bagpipe.... | 17 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5346055",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2018-10-25T15:22:06",
"content": "I saw a man who played, made, and sold Hurdy Gurdys at a Renaissance Fair in Colorado (~25 years ago).I was going to write something to the effect that adding MIDI to a Medieval instrument bordered on blasphe... | 1,760,374,168.071168 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/25/precision-thy-name-is-rigidity/ | The Machinists’ Mantra: Precision, Thy Name Is Rigidity | Quinn Dunki | [
"Featured",
"Skills",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"Everything is a spring",
"lathe",
"machining",
"precision",
"rigidity"
] | “Everything is a spring”. You’ve probably heard that expression before. How deep do you think your appreciation of that particular turn of phrase really is? You know who truly, viscerally groks this? Machinists.
As I’ve blathered on about at length previously, machine tools are all about precision. That’s easy to say, ... | 40 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5345978",
"author": "Andy Pugh",
"timestamp": "2018-10-25T14:36:31",
"content": "The lathe in the photos looks like a Chinese 9×20.Here is a picture of another 9×20 lathe, built for precision:https://photos.app.goo.gl/gJMkezdxRHhYMehd6Compare especially the depth and width of the be... | 1,760,374,168.240709 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/25/portable-hacking-unit-combines-pi-with-wifi-pineapple/ | Portable Hacking Unit Combines Pi With WiFi Pineapple | Richard Baguley | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"hacking",
"hak5",
"wifi"
] | Sometimes you need to hack on the go. [Supertechguy] has put together an interesting system for
hacking on the hoof called the Pineapple Pi
. This combines a Raspberry Pi 3 with a seven-inch touchscreen and a
Hak 5 WiFi
Pineapple into a handy portable package that puts all of the latest WiFi and ethernet hacking tools ... | 16 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5345855",
"author": "josh conway (@CrankyLinuxUser)",
"timestamp": "2018-10-25T13:06:45",
"content": "Heh, I’m working on something similar. But Wifi is one such thing it can do. Put it this way: I want a platform in which I can sniff on wireless keyboards, diddle with someone’s wif... | 1,760,374,168.366814 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/25/1000-year-old-camera-lens/ | 10,000-Year-Old Camera Lens Takes Striking Pictures | Bryan Cockfield | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"3d printer",
"camera",
"glacier",
"ice",
"iceberg",
"lens",
"melt",
"photo",
"photography",
"picture"
] | The first photograph was taken sometime in the early 1800s, and through almost two centuries of development we’ve advanced through black-and-white, the video camera, and even high-speed cameras that can take thousands of frames per second. [Mathieu Stern] took a step back from all of the technological progress of the p... | 46 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "5345123",
"author": "BrightBlueJim",
"timestamp": "2018-10-25T08:25:00",
"content": "F’ing clickbait. I could say I take my videos with a 4 billion year old camera, because my camera lenses and microchips are made from silicon that was formed at least that long ago. Most of the wa... | 1,760,374,167.861702 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/av-synth-is-psychedelic-analog-mayhem/ | AV Synth Is Psychedelic Analog Mayhem | Lewin Day | [
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"analog",
"analog video",
"audio",
"inverter",
"video"
] | Digital video is cool and all, but it can’t compete with analog in terms of smooth, creamy glitches and distortion.
[gieskes] has developed an analog audio-visual synthesizer
that is a great example of the old-school retro visuals you can create with a handful of simple components.
Known as the 3TrinsRGB+1c, it’s avail... | 8 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5345512",
"author": "nbdy",
"timestamp": "2018-10-25T10:40:54",
"content": "So trippy",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5345883",
"author": "Nicholas Wouters",
"timestamp": "2018-10-25T13:40:16",
"content": "Very remin... | 1,760,374,168.71212 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/3d-printed-bridge-goes-dutch/ | 3D Printed Bridge Goes Dutch | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"bridge",
"metal 3d printing"
] | If you’ve ever been to Amsterdam, you know there are plenty of canals and, therefore, plenty of bridges. Next year, a unique pedestrian bridge in the old city center will go into service. The
stainless steel bridge
will be 3D printed and also embed a number of sensors that will collect data that the printer — MX3D — an... | 18 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5344010",
"author": "BoBo Shrimp",
"timestamp": "2018-10-25T02:21:15",
"content": "I wonder how the energy requirements of printing metal this way compare to more traditional construction methods.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id"... | 1,760,374,168.76258 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/this-ukulele-does-chiptunes-and-not-just-because-its-made-out-of-a-game-boy/ | This Ukulele Does Chiptunes, And Not Just Because It’s Made Out Of A Game Boy | Brian Benchoff | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"dmg",
"DMG-01",
"game boy",
"tiny tim",
"ukulele"
] | When you think about singer-songwriters, the name Bob Dylan might come to your mind. You might think about Jeff Buckley, you might think about Hank Williams, Springsteen, David Bowie, or Prince. You’d be wrong. The greatest singer-songwriter of all time is Tiny Tim, the guy who looks like Weird Al traveled in time and ... | 15 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5343483",
"author": "RandyKC",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T23:52:36",
"content": "Brian, have you no shame?Throwing in the offhand remark about Tiny Tim being responsible for the popularity of the Ukulele is nothing short of yellow journalism. You should be ashamed of yourself.Obviousl... | 1,760,374,168.582883 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/building-a-proof-of-concept-hardware-implant/ | Building A Proof Of Concept Hardware Implant | Tom Nardi | [
"computer hacks",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"baseboard management controller",
"hardware implant",
"HydraBus",
"i2c",
"network security",
"security",
"SMBus"
] | You’ve no doubt heard about the “hardware implants” which were supposedly found on some server motherboards, which has led to all sorts of hand-wringing online. There’s no end of debate about the capabilities of such devices, how large they would need to be, and quite frankly, if they even exist to begin with. We’re th... | 43 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "5342732",
"author": "Pokyjoe",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T21:10:09",
"content": "You can be sure the FBI, CHINA, CIS, & everybody else trying to make their own",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5343990",
"author": "diekino... | 1,760,374,168.667033 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/linux-fu-marker-is-a-command-line-menu/ | Linux Fu: Marker Is A Command Line Menu | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"bash",
"command line",
"linux"
] | The command line. You either love it or hate it, but if you do anything with a Unix-like system you are going to have to use it eventually. You might find
marker
— a system billed as a “command palette for the terminal” — a useful program to install. We couldn’t decide if it was like command history on steroids or more... | 21 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5342536",
"author": "MK 2",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T20:37:19",
"content": "Reminds me of good old 4DOS, the command.com alternative that featured a lot of unix-like command line trickery. Those were the days…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,374,169.010792 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/this-synth-plays-the-only-scale-everybody-knows/ | This Synth Plays The Only Scale Everybody Knows | Brian Benchoff | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"pentatonic",
"synthesiser"
] | [randomprojectlab] is
building a synthesizer around the pentatonic scale
for the Hackaday Prize. It’s the Pentasynth, and it’s basically just a keyboard with five notes per scale.
There’s something common to every form of music. Nearly every musical tradition, from western art music, to
Indonesian folk music
makes use ... | 19 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5342187",
"author": "joelfinkle",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T18:52:11",
"content": "A couple of songs built on the pentatonic scale: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Starry Night by Don MacLean.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5342228",
... | 1,760,374,169.360901 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/friday-hack-chat-air-hacking/ | Friday Hack Chat: Air Hacking | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"end effector",
"Hack Chat",
"Pneumatics",
"programmable air",
"soft robotics"
] | The field of soft robotics sure seems a lot less mature than your standard servo motor and metal framed robot arms. Maybe that’s because building a robot to flex is harder, and maybe it’s because the best methods of constructing soft robotics have only been around for a decade or so. Maybe, though, it’s because it’s ha... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "5342621",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.1",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T20:55:40",
"content": "Aw shucks, I thought it was like air guitar….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,374,169.204235 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/camera-obscura-on-wheels-hits-the-open-road/ | Camera Obscura On Wheels Hits The Open Road | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"camera obscura",
"photography",
"science"
] | A camera obscura is a very simple device. Consisting of a dark chamber, with only a pinhole to let light in, it focuses an image on its inside surface. If you want to take a permanent copy, it’s as simple as installing a photosensitive film inside and managing the exposure time. Sounds like a normal camera, right? The ... | 19 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5341577",
"author": "Olsen",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T15:31:31",
"content": "Wow! That’s a fantastic idea! Also, the resolution is higher than any HDTV is because its using light from real objects in much the same way your eyes do, it would have even better resolution if our wetware... | 1,760,374,169.26188 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/ges-engine-to-reignite-civil-supersonic-flight/ | GE’s Engine To Reignite Civil Supersonic Flight | Tom Nardi | [
"Engine Hacks",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Slider",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"CFM56",
"concorde",
"fighter jet",
"general electric",
"jet engine",
"military",
"supersonic",
"turbofan"
] | On October 24th, 2003 the last Concorde touched down at Filton Airport in England, and since then commercial air travel has been stuck moving slower than the speed of sound. There were a number of reasons for retiring the Concorde, from the rising cost of fuel to bad publicity following a crash in 2000 which claimed th... | 110 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "5341406",
"author": "natsfr",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T14:07:51",
"content": "Again that weird taste of having read a hidden commercial…It happens more and mores on hackaday. Is it me ? Maybe, but I don’t like that at all !",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,374,169.162586 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/faux-walkie-talkie-for-comedy-walking-tour-is-a-rapid-prototyping-win/ | Faux Walkie-Talkie For Comedy Walking Tour Is A Rapid Prototyping Win | Dan Maloney | [
"Holiday Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"audio",
"augmented reality",
"codec",
"comedy",
"gps"
] | Chances are good that a fair number of us have been roped into “one of those” projects before. You know the type: vague specs, limited budget, and of course they need it yesterday. But you know 3D-printers and Raspberduinos and whatnot; surely you can wizard something together quickly. Pretty please?
He might not have ... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5340917",
"author": "jwebola",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T11:50:52",
"content": "“Chances are good that a fair number of us have been roped into “one of those” projects before. You know the type: vague specs, limited budget, and of course they need it yesterday”….Sounds like where I w... | 1,760,374,169.305365 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/24/ford-ka-becomes-diwheel-monster/ | Ford Ka Becomes Diwheel Monster | Lewin Day | [
"car hacks"
] | [
"car",
"diwheel",
"ford",
"ford ka"
] | If you’ve been to the right events, you’ve seen them before – the cars with an external cage that let the car complete a somersault in the forward direction under heavy braking. They’re impressive, but it’s possible to take things even further.
Enter [mastermilo82] and the RollKa
.
The RollKa follows on from the RollGo... | 27 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "5340072",
"author": "chris cauwelier",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T08:17:36",
"content": "Mooi, beste Noorderburen. ;)Nice build.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5340099",
"author": "Ludovic",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T08:26... | 1,760,374,169.42643 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/23/building-an-electric-scooter-thats-street-legal-even-in-germany/ | Building An Electric Scooter That’s Street Legal, Even In Germany | Dan Maloney | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"accelerometer",
"arduino",
"Assist",
"BLDC",
"boost",
"esc",
"gyro",
"hub motor",
"mpu6050",
"scooter"
] | Sometimes a successful project isn’t only about making sure all the electrons are in the right place at the right time, or building something that won’t collapse under its own weight. A lot of projects involve a fair amount of social engineering to be counted as a success, especially those that might result in arrest a... | 48 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "5339603",
"author": "rogerclarkmelbourne",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T05:50:47",
"content": "Clever idea.Here in Australia, some states mandate the same sort of things for electric bikes, so that the motor will only power the bike when the pedals are being cranked (rotated).As this ru... | 1,760,374,169.619425 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/23/homemade-shop-vise-packs-a-hydraulic-punch/ | Homemade Shop Vise Packs A Hydraulic Punch | Dan Maloney | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"fabrication",
"hydraulics",
"metalworking",
"vise",
"welding",
"work holding"
] | It’s a sad day when one of the simplest and generally most reliable tools in the shop – the bench vise – gives up the ghost. With just a pair of beefy castings and a heavy Acme screw, there’s very little to go wrong with a vise, but when it happens, why not take it as an opportunity to make your own? And, why not
esche... | 9 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5339237",
"author": "RÖB",
"timestamp": "2018-10-24T03:10:16",
"content": "It seems the hydraulics push the jaws open and pull the jaws shut rather than the expected push the jaws shut and pull the jaws open. I’m not sure as the plans are behind a firewall.But assuming that is the c... | 1,760,374,169.662927 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/23/one-mans-quest-to-build-his-own-speakers/ | One Man’s Quest To Build His Own Speakers | Al Williams | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"audio",
"audiophile",
"batting",
"cabinet",
"diy",
"speakers"
] | Why build your own stereo speakers? Some people like to work on cars in their garage. Some people build fast computers. Others seek the perfect audio setup. The problem for a newcomer is the signal to noise ratio among audiophile experts. Forums are generally filled with a vocal group of extremists obsessing on that la... | 49 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5338590",
"author": "Padrote",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T23:16:31",
"content": "Oh, I thought this guy was going to be winding coils and forming speaker (sorry, driver) cones.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5339007",
"... | 1,760,374,169.758023 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/23/racing-the-beam-and-dropping-some-beats/ | Racing The Beam And Dropping Some Beats | Brian Benchoff | [
"classic hacks",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"atari",
"atari 2600",
"drum machine",
"midi"
] | The heart of the Atari 2600 wasn’t the 6502 (or the 6507 for the pedants), it was the TIA chip. This is the chip responsible for drawing graphics on the display, racing the beam, and extremely limited support for sound generation. We haven’t seen many attempts of using the Atari 2600 for chiptunes, but that doesn’t mea... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5338569",
"author": "Tony",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T22:54:38",
"content": "Good rhythm for an almost 40 years games machine :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5338641",
"author": "Jorhlok",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T23:5... | 1,760,374,169.804079 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/23/the-spirit-of-the-80s-lives-on-in-a-midi-harmonica/ | The Spirit Of The 80s Lives On In A MIDI Harmonica | Brian Benchoff | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"Harmonica",
"midi",
"Millioniser 2000"
] | In the 1980s, there was a synthesizer that you could play like a harmonica. This device was called the Millioniser 2000. It utilized HIP (Harmonica In Principle) technology. The Millioniser 2000 was a breath controller wrapped in chrome-colored plastic embossed with its logo in an odd, pre-vaporwave aesthetic, and conn... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "5338317",
"author": "sid1950",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T19:36:51",
"content": "Very clever device. The demo video on his YouTube channel is impressive.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5341399",
"author": "Rock Erickson",
... | 1,760,374,169.841137 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/22/teardown-sonys-new-aibo-goes-under-the-knife/ | Teardown: Sony’s New Aibo Goes Under The Knife | Drew Littrell | [
"Robots Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"Aibo",
"electomechanical",
"robots",
"sony",
"teardown"
] | In a complete surprise, Sony has moved to release the latest version of their robotic dog series, Aibo, in North America. The device is already out in Japan, where there are a number of owner’s clubs that would rival any dedicated kennel club. Thanks to the [Robot Start] team, we now have a glimpse of what goes into ma... | 22 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5328969",
"author": "walter",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T09:58:05",
"content": "The new version is much less noisy, that´s a good thing!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5330282",
"author": "Adrian",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,374,169.905273 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/21/blazing-fast-raspberry-pi-display-driver-will-melt-your-face-then-teach-you-how/ | Blazing Fast Raspberry Pi Display Driver Will Melt Your Face Then Teach You How | Brian Boucheron | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Slider"
] | [
"display driver",
"graphics",
"ILI9341",
"raspberry pi",
"spi"
] | Reader [poipoi] recently wrote into our tip line to tell us about an “amazingly fast” Raspberry Pi display driver with a README file that “is an actual joy to read”. Of course, we had to see for ourselves.
The fbcp-ili9341 repo
, by [juj], seems to live up to the hype! The software itself appears impressive, and the RE... | 20 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5327870",
"author": "Thor",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T05:23:49",
"content": "The faster display looks interlaced?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5327871",
"author": "Thor",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T05:25:02",
... | 1,760,374,170.098395 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/21/stock-looking-psp-hides-a-raspberry-pi-zero/ | Stock Looking PSP Hides A Raspberry Pi Zero | Tom Nardi | [
"Games",
"PSP Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"handheld",
"pi zero",
"psp",
"retropie",
"zif"
] | We don’t see that many PSP hacks around these parts, perhaps because the system never attained the same sort of generational following that Nintendo’s Game Boy line obtained during its heyday. Which is a shame, as it’s really a rather nice system with plenty of hacking potential. Its big size makes it a bit easier to g... | 11 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5327227",
"author": "xopher8713",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T02:10:07",
"content": "Not knocking it but this has been done. Lookup Pspi version 4 from othermod.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5327261",
"author": "mtlevine0",
... | 1,760,374,170.236051 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/21/hackaday-links-october-21-2018/ | Hackaday Links: October 21, 2018 | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"boston dynamics",
"fran",
"fran lab",
"gofundme",
"plywood",
"powerball",
"wintergatan"
] | A few weeks ago, we got word [Fran] was being kicked out of her workshop. You might remember [Fran] from her exploits in reverse engineering the launch computer for the Saturn V, her work on replicating the DSKY from an AGC, her visit to the Air & Space Museum annex (so jealous), and her other musical adventures. Why i... | 31 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5326986",
"author": "COLIN",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T23:55:10",
"content": "Not to be pedantic, but it’s Mega Millions that currently has the bigger reward.Not that Powerballs payout is anything to sneeze at.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"... | 1,760,374,170.040682 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/21/the-polyphonic-analog-digital-synth-project/ | The Polyphonic Analog/Digital Synth Project | Rich Hawkes | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"digital synth",
"Modular synthesizer",
"Teensy 3.6",
"teensy audio adapter board"
] | [Matt Bradshaw]’s entry in the Hackaday Prize is
Polymod
, a modular digital synthesizer which combines the modularity of an analog synth with the power of a digital synth. Each module (LFO, Envelope Generator, Amplifier, etc.) are connected with audio cables to others and the result is processed digitally to create mu... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5326303",
"author": "walter",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T20:19:12",
"content": "Laaaateeeeeency….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5328636",
"author": "Matt Bradshaw",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T08:53:53",
"... | 1,760,374,170.332479 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/21/turning-the-deep-note-into-a-game/ | Turning The Deep Note Into A Game | Brian Benchoff | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"1Bitsy",
"1Bitsy-1UP",
"Deep Noise",
"Deep Note"
] | One of the most famous pieces of computer-generated music is the Deep Note, the audio trademark for THX. It begins with a dozen or so voices, randomly tuned between 200 and 400 Hz, then glissandos to a frequency spread of three octaves. Put that through a few thousand watts of a speaker system, play it before
Jedi
, an... | 13 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5325787",
"author": "Luke",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T18:28:13",
"content": "I think you can’t actually make The Deep Note, because it’s made by randomizing the notes, so each time will be different.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id"... | 1,760,374,170.287892 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/21/what-the-hack-is-this-thing/ | What The Hack Is This Thing? | Mike Szczys | [
"cons",
"contests"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Superconference",
"What the Hack?"
] | Let’s play a guessing game. Shown here is a sneak peek at the rear view of a hardware demo being built specifically for the
Hackaday Superconference
in Pasadena this November 2-4. It’s sure to be a crowd pleaser when finished, but if you’re anything like us, studying what’s behind the finished face of a project like th... | 46 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "5325497",
"author": "Brent Logan",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T16:36:36",
"content": "It’s a scoreboard.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5325504",
"author": "Xeon",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T16:38:28",
"content": "What i... | 1,760,374,170.634099 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/23/sidney-darlington/ | Sidney Darlington | Dan Maloney | [
"Biography",
"Featured",
"Original Art"
] | [
"common collector",
"darlington",
"gain",
"hfe",
"npn",
"physics",
"power",
"switching",
"transistor"
] | In a field where components and systems are often known by sterile strings of characters that manufacturers assign or by cutesy names that are clearly products of the marketing department and their focus groups, having your name attached to an innovation is rare. Rarer still is the case where the mere mention of an oth... | 32 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "5338104",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T17:06:58",
"content": "Thanks!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5338306",
"author": "Pete",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T19:23:16",
"content": "Thanks!",
... | 1,760,374,170.547736 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/23/putting-a-motor-inside-a-speed-controller/ | Putting A Motor Inside A Speed Controller | Brian Benchoff | [
"hardware"
] | [
"Electronic Speed Controller",
"esc",
"pcb",
"pcb motor"
] | One of the more interesting hacks we’ve seen this year is [Carl]’s experimentations with making motors out of PCBs. Honestly, it’s surprising no one has done this before — a brushless motor is just some coils of wire and a few magnets; anyone can turn some coils into traces and make a 3D print that will hold a few magn... | 17 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5338048",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T15:53:21",
"content": "Is HaD going to celebrate Mole Day?https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/students/highschool/chemistryclubs/activities/mole-day.html",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,374,170.465836 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/23/hack-my-house-zoneminders-keeping-an-eye-on-the-place/ | Hack My House: ZoneMinder’s Keeping An Eye On The Place | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"home hacks",
"Raspberry Pi",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"Hack my House",
"raspberry pi",
"security camera",
"Zoneminder"
] | Hacks are often born out of unfortunate circumstances. My unfortunate circumstance was a robbery– the back door of the remodel was kicked in, and a generator was carted off. Once the police report was filed and the door screwed shut, it was time to order cameras. Oh, and record the models and serial numbers of all my t... | 53 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "5337965",
"author": "TeleTech",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T14:21:14",
"content": "I’ve done something similar to this but using SmartThings as the trigger rather than having to fabricate a specific solution. There are several good examples on how to do so if anyone else is using ST a... | 1,760,374,170.813948 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/23/slack-on-the-snes-via-satellite/ | Slack On The SNES Via Satellite | Tom Nardi | [
"classic hacks",
"Games",
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"api",
"emulation",
"satellite",
"slack",
"snes"
] | We love seeing hardware and software from bygone eras getting a new lease on life through modern hacks, as longtime readers can surely attest to. Why leave this stuff to rot in a closet somewhere when it can be pushed into service today? Granted it might not always be the most
efficient
way to accomplish a task in the ... | 14 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5337522",
"author": "Justin",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T11:11:01",
"content": "Can’t find the article now, but didn’t this just get covered in the past week?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5338258",
"author": "walter",... | 1,760,374,170.921147 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/23/3-multimeter-teardown/ | $3 Multimeter Teardown | Al Williams | [
"Teardown"
] | [
"china",
"multimeter",
"teardown"
] | [Diode Gone Wild] and his cat decided to see how a $3 meter worked inside. The meter was marked as a DT-830B and he already had an older one of the same model, and he wondered how they could afford to sell it — including shipping — for $3. You can see a video of his
testing, teardown, and reverse engineering
below.
Wha... | 44 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "5335933",
"author": "Pinhead",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T08:32:35",
"content": "Don’t miss the second part, where he pushes the multimeter to its limitshttps://youtu.be/iGUiZT6kLDk",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5337188",
... | 1,760,374,171.000236 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/22/real-time-satellite-tracker-shows-you-whats-going-over-your-head/ | Real Time Satellite Tracker Shows You What’s Going Over Your Head | Ben James | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Space"
] | [
"raspberry pi",
"satellite",
"space",
"tracker"
] | Whilst modern technology relies heavily on satellites, it’s easy to forget they’re there; after all, it’s hard to comprehend mostly-invisible lumps of high-density tech whizzing around above you at ludicrous speeds. Of course, it’s not hard to comprehend if you’ve
built a real-time satellite tracker which displays exac... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5333493",
"author": "Mike Massen",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T06:06:12",
"content": "Hmm, nice idea and well done – could also use similar paradigm to display magnetic field changes above ground, such as mount it on wheels with sensitive detector close to ground, watch the leds change... | 1,760,374,170.866495 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/22/jump-into-ai-with-a-neural-network-of-your-own/ | Jump Into AI With A Neural Network Of Your Own | Al Williams | [
"Software Development",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"ai",
"artificial intellegence",
"kotlin",
"neural network"
] | One of the difficulties in learning about neural networks is finding a problem that is complex enough to be instructive but not so complex as to impede learning. [ThomasNield] had an idea: Create a neural network to learn if you should put a light or dark font on a particular colored background. He has a great video ex... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5337343",
"author": "mnowak32",
"timestamp": "2018-10-23T10:11:10",
"content": "Kotlin is a great language. I’ve been working with Java for at least 10 years and mostly switched to Kotlin last year. What a refreshing experience it is! Programming for the JVM is fun again! I heartily... | 1,760,374,171.042254 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/22/wave-powered-glider-delivers-your-message-in-a-bottle/ | Wave-Powered Glider Delivers Your Message In A Bottle | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"message in a bottle",
"sea glider",
"submarine"
] | Setting a bottle adrift with a message in it is, by most measures, an act of desperation. The sea regularly swats mighty ships to their doom, so what chance would a tiny glass bottle have bobbing along the surface, subject as it is to wind, waves, and current? Little to none, it would seem, unless you skew the odds a b... | 9 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5331959",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T23:54:53",
"content": "Something to keep in mind next time the RMS Tidy-bowl shipwrecks on an island.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5331962",
"author": "Fvfilippetti... | 1,760,374,171.08957 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/22/robot-trumpet-sad-trombone-mp3/ | Robot + Trumpet = Sad Trombone.mp3 | Kristina Panos | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"air pressure",
"latex lips",
"servo",
"trumpet"
] | [Uri Shaked] is really into Latin music. When his interest crescendoed, he bought a trumpet in order to make some energetic tunes of his own. His enthusiasm flagged a bit when he realized just how hard it is to get reliably trumpet-like sounds out of the thing, but he wasn’t about to give up altogether. Geekcon 2018 wa... | 13 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5331396",
"author": "Tristan",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T21:25:25",
"content": "Cute little project. Sadly though the valves on a brass instrument don’t change the instrument’s notes, they just alter the length of the piping to be resonant at the right frequencies. It’s the player’s ... | 1,760,374,171.137124 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/22/the-incredible-judges-of-the-hackaday-prize-3/ | The Incredible Judges Of The Hackaday Prize | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"2018 Hackaday Superconference"
] | The time to enter
The Hackaday Prize
has ended, but that doesn’t mean we’re done with the world’s greatest hardware competition just yet. Over the past few months, we’ve gotten a sneak peek at over a thousand amazing projects, from Open Hardware to Human Computer Interfaces. This is a contest, though, and to decide the... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5330894",
"author": "SebiR",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T19:51:19",
"content": "No photo of Chris? Damn… :(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5331526",
"author": "Ryan Voots",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T21:56:29",
... | 1,760,374,171.189024 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/22/a-close-look-at-the-prusa-i3-mk3/ | A Close Look At The Prusa I3 MK3 | Tom Nardi | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Reviews",
"Slider",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"assembly",
"kit",
"PEI",
"production",
"prusa",
"Prusa i3 Mk3"
] | The Prusa i3 MK3 is, for lack of a better word, inescapable. Nearly every hacker or tech event that I’ve attended in 2018 has had dozens of them humming away, and you won’t get long looking up 3D printing on YouTube or discussion forums without somebody singing its praises. Demand for Prusa’s latest i3 printer is so hi... | 63 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "5330337",
"author": "yetihehe",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T17:25:28",
"content": "> The very first print I did on the MK3 after assembling it, with absolutely no additional calibration or adjustment, was phenomenal.Phenomenal for uncalibrated printer, yes. That pulley looks ok, but th... | 1,760,374,171.417041 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/22/vibrosight-hears-when-you-are-sleeping-it-knows-when-youre-awake/ | Vibrosight Hears When You Are Sleeping. It Knows When You’re Awake. | Tom Nardi | [
"home hacks",
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"home automation",
"internet of things",
"laser",
"surveillance",
"vibration"
] | No matter how excited you are to dive headfirst into the “Internet of Things”, you’ve got to admit that the effort and expense of going full-on
Jetsons
is a bit off-putting. To smarten up your home you’ve generally got to buy all new products (and hope they’re all compatible) or stick janky after-market sensors on the ... | 16 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5330291",
"author": "paul",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T17:00:50",
"content": "About the: “(and hope they’re all compatible)”, The best chance you have nowaday’s with that seems to be the Open Source stuff. From MQTT to Node Red, for which a lot of people have added small tidbits until... | 1,760,374,171.311078 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/22/that-time-atari-cracked-the-nintendo-entertainment-system/ | That Time Atari Cracked The Nintendo Entertainment System | Drew Littrell | [
"Featured",
"Games",
"Interest",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"atari",
"game cartridge",
"history",
"nintendo",
"security hacks",
"vintage"
] | It was darkest hour for the video game industry following the holiday shopping season of 1982. The torrent of third party developed titles had flooded the home video game console market to the point of saturation. It incited a price war amongst retailers where new
releases were dropped to 85% off
MSRP after less than a... | 45 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "5329938",
"author": "drenehtsral",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T14:17:39",
"content": "I had marble madness on the NES in a Tengen cartridge so I think there was a limited release. We got our copy as a sample that was sent to the video rental store where my stepfather worked…",
"par... | 1,760,374,171.839626 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/22/home-built-flight-sim-combines-virtual-actual-reality/ | Home Built Flight Sim Combines Virtual And Actual Reality | Richard Baguley | [
"Virtual Reality"
] | [
"flight sim",
"flight simulator",
"virtual reality",
"vr"
] | Virtual Reality (VR) and actual reality often don’t mix: watch someone play a VR game without seeing what they see and you see a lot of pointless-looking flailing around. [Nerdaxic] may have found a balance that works in
this flight sim setup that mixes VR and AR, though
. He did this by combining the virtual cockpit c... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5329627",
"author": "Will",
"timestamp": "2018-10-22T12:15:36",
"content": "A buddy of mine built one using an actual Cessna cockpit. Pretty freaking awesome. Just needs some motion control now lolhttps://www.facebook.com/mycessnasim",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"rep... | 1,760,374,172.001993 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/20/the-crystal-testing-method/ | The Crystal (Testing) Method | Al Williams | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"crystal",
"frequency generator",
"oscilloscope",
"test equipment"
] | It used to be any good electronics experimenter had a bag full of crystals because you never knew what frequency you might need. These days, you are likely to have far fewer because you usually just need one reference frequency and derive all the other frequencies from it. But how can you test a crystal? As [Mousa] poi... | 19 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5320365",
"author": "Jonathan Pallant",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T17:18:54",
"content": "You can also make a loop of wire with a few turns (an inch or so across), hook it up to a spectrum analyser and lay it over the crystal. It will pick up enough to show you the frequency.",
"p... | 1,760,374,171.681965 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/20/i2c-bootloader-for-attiny85-lets-other-micros-push-firmware-updates/ | I2C Bootloader For ATtiny85 Lets Other Micros Push Firmware Updates | Donald Papp | [
"ATtiny Hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"attiny",
"ATtiny25",
"attiny45",
"attiny85",
"AVR",
"bootloader",
"firmware",
"i2c",
"push",
"serial interface",
"timonel",
"twi",
"USI"
] | There are a few different ways of getting firmware onto one of AVR’s ATtiny85 microcontrollers, including bootloaders that allow for firmware to be updated without the need to plug the chip into a programmer. However, [casanovg] wasn’t satisfied with those so he sent us a tip letting us know he wrote
an I2C bootloader ... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5319872",
"author": "Rex",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T14:24:36",
"content": "I didn’t learn anything from watching the video, but at least it had good music. “Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman – Stumblin’ In”, check it out on youtube.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [... | 1,760,374,171.628994 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/20/e-ink-typewriter-is-refreshingly-slow/ | E-ink Typewriter Is Refreshingly Slow | Ben James | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"display",
"e-ink",
"e-paper",
"raspberry pi",
"refresh",
"spi",
"typewriter",
"waveshare"
] | It’s pretty hard to use the internet to complete a task without being frequently distracted. For better or worse, there are rabbit holes at every turn and whilst exploring them can be a delight, sometimes you just need to focus on a task at hand. The solution could be in the form of distraction-blocking software, razor... | 31 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5319504",
"author": "Nate B",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T12:26:03",
"content": "Oh neat! An open-source version of the ironically-named FreeWrite typewriter. (FKA Hemingwrite, if you recall..)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "532... | 1,760,374,171.752804 |
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