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https://hackaday.com/2018/10/20/hacking-natures-musicians/ | Hacking Nature’s Musicians | Brian Benchoff | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"piezo",
"random number generator"
] | We just wrapped up the Musical Instrument Challenge in the Hackaday Prize, and for most projects that meant replicating sounds made by humans, or otherwise making musicians for humans. There’s more to music than just what can be made in a DAW, though; the world is surrounded by a soundscape, and you only need to take a... | 3 | 3 | [
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"comment_id": "5318609",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T08:41:33",
"content": "The samba beat comes from two frogs. One big one goes boorup, the other goes be-be-be…..be-be-be. Probably goes on all night long.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,374,173.788082 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/wired-wireless-over-coax/ | Wired Wireless Over Coax | Brian Benchoff | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"Coax",
"router",
"wifi",
"wired"
] | If it’s stupid and it works, then it’s not stupid. There’s no better evidence of that than
[Manawyrm]’s networking setup
.
She recently had to distribute Ethernet through a building, and there are a few ways to do that. You can use regular old twisted pair, or fiber, but in this case running new cables wasn’t possible.... | 68 | 31 | [
{
"comment_id": "5317962",
"author": "CRImier",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T05:11:20",
"content": "Also, see an earlier (and more in-detail) writeup of a very similar setup:https://web.archive.org/web/20170421013902/http://wifiovercoax.mcleodnet.com/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replie... | 1,760,374,174.100367 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/which-wireless-is-right-wireless/ | Which Wireless Is Right Wireless? | Kerry Scharfglass | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"6lowpan",
"ble",
"bluetooth",
"bluetooth LE",
"LoRaWAN",
"NB-IoT",
"NFC",
"reference",
"sigfox",
"wifi",
"z-wave",
"zigbee"
] | Back in the early days of Arduino proliferation (and before you ask, yes we realize there was a time before that too), wireless was a strange and foreign beast. IR communication was definitely a thing. And if you had the funds there was this cool technology called ZigBee that was available, often in funny blue house-sh... | 24 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5317357",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T02:34:13",
"content": "PANs never seem to have taken off, home automation notwithstanding, and even that has had growing pains.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5321377",... | 1,760,374,174.164988 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/an-open-controller-for-woodwind-instruments/ | An Open Controller For Woodwind Instruments | Brian Benchoff | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"midi",
"midi controller",
"woodwind",
"woodwind controller"
] | Engineers, hackers, and makers can most certainly build a musical gadget of some kind. They’ll build synths, they’ll build aerophones, and they’ll take the idea of mercury delay line memory, two hydrophones, and a really long tube filled with water to build the most absurd delay in existence. One thing they can’t seem ... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5316615",
"author": "Jeremy",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T23:13:04",
"content": "Basically a clone of the AKAI EWI?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5319651",
"author": "Jeff Hopkins",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T13:1... | 1,760,374,173.911239 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/21/https-for-the-internet-of-things/ | HTTPS For The Internet Of Things | Lewin Day | [
"News"
] | [
"ESP32",
"ESP8266",
"https",
"IoT",
"iot security",
"security",
"ssl"
] | Every day, we’re connecting more and more devices over the internet. No longer does a household have a single connected computer — there are smartphones, tablets, HVAC systems, deadbolts — you name it, it’s been connected. As the Internet of Things proliferates, it has become readily apparent that security is an issue ... | 42 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "5325296",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T14:45:18",
"content": "VPNing the pipe between you and your device.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5326110",
"author": "ptsneves",
"timestamp": "2018-10... | 1,760,374,173.98807 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/21/dollar-store-helping-hands-for-soldering/ | Dollar Store Helping Hands For Soldering | Al Williams | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"helping hands",
"soldering vise",
"vise",
"work holder"
] | Although [I Love To Make] appears to have text in Chinese, their recent video (see below) is like a wordless workshop so it won’t matter if you are up on your Mandarin or not. The
soldering vise
looks like it mostly came from a dollar store (or perhaps a yaun store).
As far as we can tell, the assembly is two utility c... | 20 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "5324880",
"author": "michael",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T12:06:04",
"content": "please don‘t spam hackaday with those hot glue super life hack pullshit videos from youtube!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5325073",
"au... | 1,760,374,173.746571 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/21/finally-an-open-source-midi-foot-controller/ | Finally, An Open Source MIDI Foot Controller | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"foot controller",
"midi",
"midi controller"
] | MIDI has been around for longer than most of the readers of Hackaday, and you can get off my lawn. In spite of this, MIDI is still commonly used in nearly every single aspect of musical performance, and there are a host of tools and applications to give MIDI control to a live performance. That said, if you want a MIDI ... | 16 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5324154",
"author": "RÖB",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T08:36:41",
"content": "The project “Pedalino” is here –https://hackaday.io/project/156332-pedalino",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5324545",
"author": "scanboostar",
"t... | 1,760,374,174.260421 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/20/youll-flip-for-this-7404-ic-motherboard-fix/ | You’ll Flip For This 7404 IC Motherboard Fix | Tom Nardi | [
"computer hacks",
"Parts",
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"7404",
"inverter",
"laptop",
"repair",
"schematics",
"usb"
] | We often lament that the days of repairable electronics are long gone. It used to be you’d get schematics for a piece of gear, and you could just as easily crack it open and fix something as the local repairman — assuming you had the knowledge and tools. But today, everything is built to be thrown away when something g... | 35 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5323566",
"author": "Mike Massen",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T05:31:23",
"content": "Good focus for a quick fix. If the drive from the initiating gate was able to handle the gate capacitance for the speed/duty cycle I’d have used a sot23 2N7002 or equivalent with a SMT resistor to act... | 1,760,374,173.86311 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/20/elegant-drum-machine-from-teensy/ | Elegant Drum Machine From Teensy | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"algorithm",
"drum machine",
"euclidean",
"midi",
"rhythm",
"sequencer",
"synthesizer"
] | Playing the drums is pretty hard, especially for the uncoordinated. Doing four things at the same time, all while keeping an even tempo, isn’t reasonable for most of us. Rather than hiring a drummer for your band who is well versed in this art, though, you might opt instead to
outsource this job to a machine instead
. ... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5323344",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T04:26:10",
"content": "Heh. And here I was thinking the OTHER kind of “drum machine”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5323764",
"author": "Jonathan",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,374,174.205387 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/20/iot-traffic-light-is-cardboard-made-fun/ | IoT Traffic Light Is Cardboard Made Fun | Lewin Day | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"ESP8266",
"neopixel",
"ws2812b"
] | Traffic lights! Kids love them, hackers love them, and they’re useful in industrial contexts to see if the giant machine is currently working or having a bad day. While the real deal are unwieldy and hard to come by,
there’s nothing stopping you tackling a fun cardboard build at home.
It’s a great way to teach kids abo... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5322251",
"author": "Evan White",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T23:52:47",
"content": "where i can buy WS2812b LED strips ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5322600",
"author": "RP",
"timestamp": "2018-10-21T01:15:37... | 1,760,374,174.312032 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/20/can-you-build-an-open-source-pocket-operator/ | Can You Build An Open Source Pocket Operator? | Brian Benchoff | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"pocket operator",
"synthesizer",
"Teensy"
] | Toys are now musical instruments. Or we’ll just say musical instruments are now toys. You can probably ascribe this recent phenomenon to Frooty Loops or whatever software the kids are using these days, but the truth is that it’s never been easier to lay down a beat. Just press the buttons on a pocket-sized computer.
On... | 20 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5321112",
"author": "Douggie",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T20:07:20",
"content": "“I’m the calculator with my pocket operator.”Wait, that doesn’t seem quite right…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5330320",
"author": "Xaq ... | 1,760,374,174.678819 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/bradley-gawthrop-loves-wiring-and-so-should-you/ | Bradley Gawthrop Loves Wiring And So Should You | Tom Nardi | [
"cons",
"hardware",
"Interviews"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Superconference",
"Bradley Gawthrop",
"crimping",
"design",
"harness",
"wiring"
] | Wiring is one of those things that we’ve all had to do on a project, but probably didn’t give a lot of thought to. It’s often the last thing that happens during the build, and almost certainly doesn’t get approached with any kind of foresight. You look at the components you need to connect, dig through the parts bins u... | 12 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5316290",
"author": "Severe Tire Damage",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T21:45:16",
"content": "There is nothing like wasting a bunch of time and finding out it is some flakey connection problem. If you haven’t been there, you probably haven’t done much of anything as far as building ele... | 1,760,374,174.62017 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/superdeep-borehole-samples-create-non-boring-music/ | Superdeep Borehole Samples Create Non-boring Music | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Art",
"Science"
] | [
"arduino mega",
"borehole",
"boring",
"drilling",
"facility",
"instrument",
"kola",
"music",
"piezo",
"research",
"science",
"sound",
"Soviet Union",
"superdeep"
] | In the 1970s, the Soviet Union decided to dig a hole for science. Not just any hole, the Kola Superdeep Borehole reached a depth of over 12 kilometers, the deepest at the time and the second deepest today by just a few meters. Since this was one of the few holes dug this deep that wasn’t being drilled for oil, the proj... | 14 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5315924",
"author": "prpplague",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T20:19:26",
"content": "not much detail on the build… i’d really like to know more about the tape reader design!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5316205",
"autho... | 1,760,374,174.775183 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/return-of-the-infamous-triforium/ | Return Of The Infamous Triforium | Lewin Day | [
"Art"
] | [
"art",
"los angeles",
"public art",
"sculpture",
"triforium"
] | The Triforium is a public art installation in Los Angeles, weighing 60 tons and standing six stories tall. Built in 1975, it was designed to combine light and sound, all under the control of computer hardware of the era.
Sadly, it was plagued with technical problems from the start, and over the years, became an object ... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "5316218",
"author": "walter",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T21:18:43",
"content": "Humm gorgeous piece of art. It´s worth any retrocomputer I´ve ever seen here.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5320466",
"author": "The yar",
"... | 1,760,374,174.931847 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/talking-clock-thats-nothing-new/ | Talking Clock? That’s Nothing New | Al Williams | [
"clock hacks",
"History",
"Original Art"
] | [
"clock",
"gramophone",
"phonograph",
"talking clock"
] | Do you talk to your alarm clock? I do. I was recently in a hotel room, woke up in the middle of the night and said, “Computer. What time is it?” Since my Amazon Echo (which responds to the name Computer) was at home, I was greeted with silence. Isn’t the future great?
Of course, there have been a variety of talking clo... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5314976",
"author": "nsayer",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T17:05:55",
"content": "Arthur Sullivan saw Vanilla Ice and Britney Spears coming from more than a century away.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5315045",
"author": "Andy... | 1,760,374,174.7259 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/laser-cutter-resurrection-uncovers-a-magnificent-machine-beneath-the-ash/ | Laser Cutter Resurrection Uncovers A Magnificent Machine Beneath The Ash | Sonya Vasquez | [
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"amymakesstuff",
"chinese laser cutter",
"laser cutter upgrade"
] | Trash is relative. When my coworker accidentally lit an ABS-barbecue inside the company laser cutter, he made trash. The wreckage was headed for the dump, but I managed to save it and pass it on to my friend [Amy]. Four months later, she phoenixed it back to life from the trash-it-was to a glorious new system more powe... | 32 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "5314688",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T15:38:31",
"content": "“Trash is relative. When my coworker accidentally lit an ABS-barbecue inside the company laser cutter, he made trash.”Why didn’t the company fix it?“I turn around to see billowing flames coming from our ... | 1,760,374,175.148955 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/the-bnc-connector-and-how-it-got-that-way/ | The BNC Connector And How It Got That Way | Dan Maloney | [
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"bayonet",
"Coax",
"coaxial",
"connector",
"How It Got That Way",
"impedance",
"microwave",
"reflection",
"RF",
"threaded"
] | When I started working in a video production house in the early 1980s, it quickly became apparent that there was a lot of snobbery in terms of equipment. These were the days when the home video market was taking off; the Format War had been fought and won by VHS, and consumer-grade VCRs were flying off the shelves and ... | 99 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "5314472",
"author": "Jon H",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T14:12:09",
"content": "I found hooking up thin ethernet with BNC connectors more aesthetically pleasing than setting up CATwhatever with the overgrown modular phone connectors. Connecting a BNC to the socket is just so mechanical... | 1,760,374,175.3622 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/a-robotic-arm-for-those-who-like-their-kinematics-both-ways/ | A Robotic Arm For Those Who Like Their Kinematics Both Ways | Lewin Day | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"robot",
"robotic arm"
] | A robotic arm is an excellent idea if you’re looking to get started with electromechanical projects. There’s linkages to design, and motors to drive, but there’s also the matter of control. This is referred to as “kinematics”, and can be considered in both the forward and inverse sense.
[aerdronix] built a robotic arm ... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "5314972",
"author": "Banana",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T17:03:38",
"content": "Ummm…sound track please…lol we need all the info for these projects",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,374,175.051323 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/19/decorative-light-box-lets-you-guess-the-time/ | Decorative Light Box Lets You Guess The Time | Sven Gregori | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"arduino",
"clock",
"light box",
"mechanical design",
"PCB design",
"rtc"
] | Telling time by using the current position of the sun is nothing revolutionary — though it probably was quite the “life hack” back in ancient times, we can assume. On the other hand,
showing
time by using the current position of the sun is what inspired [Rich Nelson] to create the
Day Cycle Clock
, a color changing lig... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5313499",
"author": "JWhitten",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T09:07:46",
"content": "That’s cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5313540",
"author": "Jeramiah",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T09:17:54",
"content": "I really li... | 1,760,374,174.973487 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/redeem-your-irresponsible-90s-self/ | Redeem Your Irresponsible 90s Self | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"90's",
"arduino",
"art",
"machine learning",
"pet",
"tamagotchi",
"toy",
"virtual"
] | If you were a youth in the 90s, odds are good that you were a part of the virtual pet fad and had your very own beeping Tamagotchi to take care of, much to the chagrin of your parents. Without the appropriate amout of attention each day, the pets could become sick or die, and the only way to prevent this was to sneak t... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5312708",
"author": "Saabman",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T05:08:45",
"content": "No it needs a mechanical arm to activate the switches – haveing it hard wired is a cop out…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5313287",
"auth... | 1,760,374,175.016472 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/the-math-that-makes-computers-go-built-on-a-tiny-pcb/ | The Math That Makes Computers Go, Built On A Tiny PCB | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"ALU",
"arithmetic logic unit",
"computer",
"homebrew",
"integrated circuit",
"square inch"
] | A computer is, at its core, just a bunch of transistors wired together. Once you have enough transistors on a board, though, one of the first layers of abstraction that arises is the Arithmetic Logic Unit. The ALU takes in two sets of data, performs a chosen math function, and outputs one data set as the result. It rea... | 20 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5311448",
"author": "Art Mezins",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T02:55:07",
"content": "When I was in college back in the mid 70’s, I worked at popular (back then) electronics place called Burstein-Applebee, or more typically, just BA. We stocked Motorola “replacement” semiconductors and ... | 1,760,374,175.550985 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/playing-doom-on-keysight-oscilloscope-via-windows-ce/ | Playing Doom On Keysight Oscilloscope Via Windows CE | Dan Maloney | [
"Games",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"agilent",
"doom",
"dso",
"DSOX1102",
"exploits",
"Keysight",
"oscilloscope",
"usb",
"Windows CE"
] | We all know the drill when buying a digital oscilloscope: buy the most hackable model. Some choose to void the warranty right away and access features for which the manufacturer has kindly provided all the hardware and software but has disabled through licensing. Few of us choose to tap into the underlying embedded OS,... | 22 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5310406",
"author": "Dave Davidson",
"timestamp": "2018-10-19T00:01:17",
"content": "Need to see a Networked game of Doom from Osciliscope to Fridge to Camera to Calculator",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5311475",
"au... | 1,760,374,175.612523 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/sandbot-happily-and-tirelessly-rolls-patterns-in-sand/ | SandBot Happily And Tirelessly Rolls Patterns In Sand | Donald Papp | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"acrylic",
"art",
"ball bearing",
"drawbot",
"laser cut",
"sand",
"sand lines",
"sandbot",
"scara"
] | The patience and precision involved with drawing geometric patterns in sand is right up a robot’s alley, and demonstrating this is
[rob dobson]’s
SandBot
, a robot that draws patterns thanks to an arm with a magnetically coupled ball.
SandBot, SCARA version. The device sits underneath a sand bed, and a magnet (seen at ... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "5319865",
"author": "Steven Greenfield",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T14:22:02",
"content": "Shame there is no video. I’d like to see the mechanism itself in action.I think I’m simulating it accurately in the Steve-O-Tron 5000, but I could be wrong.A clever design to cover the entire ar... | 1,760,374,175.712782 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/laser-cut-cardboard-robot-construction-kit-eases-learning-and-play/ | Laser Cut Cardboard Robot Construction Kit Eases Learning And Play | Donald Papp | [
"Robots Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"animatronics",
"cardboard",
"educational",
"laser cut",
"prototyping",
"robot",
"robot kit",
"robotics",
"servo",
"sg90"
] | It has never been easier to put a microcontroller and other electronics into a simple project, and that has tremendous learning potential. But when it comes to mechanical build elements like enclosures, frames, and connectors, things haven’t quite kept the same pace. It’s easier to source economical servos, motors, and... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,374,175.667852 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/ask-hackaday-why-arent-we-hacking-cellphones/ | Ask Hackaday: Why Aren’t We Hacking Cellphones? | Elliot Williams | [
"Ask Hackaday",
"Cellphone Hacks",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"android",
"app development",
"cellphone",
"ftdi",
"ioio",
"ios",
"smartphone"
] | When a project has outgrown using a small microcontroller, almost everyone reaches for a single-board computer — with the Raspberry Pi being the poster child. But doing so leaves you stuck with essentially a headless Linux server: a brain in a jar when what you want is a Swiss Army knife.
It would be a lot more fun if ... | 148 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "5308632",
"author": "Aaron Christophel",
"timestamp": "2018-10-18T17:08:43",
"content": "Here is my kind of hacked android phone.It uses the camera as color detection and communicates with an arduino via bluetooth.https://youtu.be/Oyp8Vp9MA38",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,... | 1,760,374,175.956879 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/packing-a-lot-into-a-little-pcb-winners-of-the-square-inch-project/ | Packing A Lot Into A Little PCB: Winners Of The Square Inch Project | Al Williams | [
"cons",
"Slider"
] | [
"contest",
"square inch",
"square inch contest",
"Square inch project"
] | It is mind-boggling when you think about the computing power that fits in the palm of your hand these days. It wasn’t long ago when air-conditioned rooms with raised floors hosted computers far less powerful that filled the whole area. Miniaturization is certainly the order of the day. Things are getting smaller every ... | 12 | 8 | [
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"comment_id": "5308452",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-18T16:16:03",
"content": "“It is mind-boggling when you think about the computing power that fits in the palm of your hand these days. It wasn’t long ago when air-conditioned rooms with raised floors hosted computers far less pow... | 1,760,374,176.055194 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/mechatronic-hand-mimics-human-anatomy-to-achieve-dexterity/ | Mechatronic Hand Mimics Human Anatomy To Achieve Dexterity | Dan Maloney | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"anatomic",
"anthropomorhic",
"biomimetic",
"end effector",
"grip",
"hand",
"mechatronics",
"servo"
] | Behold the wondrous complexity of the human hand. Twenty-seven bones working in concert with muscles, tendons, and ligaments extending up the forearm to produce a range of motions that gave us everything from stone tools to symphonies. Our hands are what we use to interface with the physical world on a fine level, and ... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5308266",
"author": "Mike Massen",
"timestamp": "2018-10-18T15:23:36",
"content": "Fascinating, well done, interested in progress and augmenting critique here, thanks for post, cheers :-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5308292"... | 1,760,374,176.001948 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/illiac-was-hal-9000s-granddaddy/ | ILLIAC Was HAL 9000’s Granddaddy | Al Williams | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"hal9000",
"illiac",
"supercomputer",
"urbana"
] | Science fiction is usually couched in fact, and it’s fun to look at an iconic computer like HAL 9000 and trace the origins of this artificial intelligence gone wrong. You might be surprised to find that you can trace HAL’s origins to a computer built for the US Army in 1952.
If you are a fan of the novel and movie
2001... | 42 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "5308135",
"author": "Wolf",
"timestamp": "2018-10-18T14:35:07",
"content": "“Urbana is hardly a household name unless you know the Chicago area well.”Urbana, Illinois is about 2 hours South of Chicago, and is thus not in the “Chicago area”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,176.281726 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/popup-notification-dinosaur/ | Popup Notification Dinosaur | Bryan Cockfield | [
"internet hacks"
] | [
"alert",
"arduino",
"dinosaur",
"notification",
"rack and pinion",
"servo"
] | There’s a lot going on our virtual spaces, and anyone with a smart phone can attest to this fact. There are pop-up notifications for everything you can imagine, and sometimes it’s possible for the one really important notification to get lost in a sea of minutiae. To really make sure you don’t miss that one important n... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "5320502",
"author": "keithfromcanada",
"timestamp": "2018-10-20T17:57:22",
"content": "Thanks, HaD, for including simple, easy hacks as well as the astonishingly complicated and difficult ones. I may not be able to decap a 65C02 or produce a one square inch oscilloscope, but I can ... | 1,760,374,176.194866 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/18/reverse-engineering-cmos/ | Reverse Engineering CMOS | Al Williams | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"54HC00",
"cmos",
"decapsulation",
"IC fabrication",
"reverse engineering"
] | ICs have certainly changed electronics, but how much do you really know about how they are built on the inside? While decapsulating and studying a modern CPU with 14 nanometer geometry is probably not a great first project, a simple 54HC00 logic gate is much larger and much easier to analyze, even at low magnification.... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5306968",
"author": "walter",
"timestamp": "2018-10-18T09:26:12",
"content": "waiting for some computer vision software that can reverse-engineer microphotos or x-ray tomography into an actual circuit … that might bring the golden age of opensource hardware to the die level.",
"... | 1,760,374,177.418703 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/us-announces-withdraw-from-postal-treaty-international-shipping-prices-expected-to-rise/ | US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty; International Shipping Prices Expected To Rise | Brian Benchoff | [
"News"
] | [
"china",
"e-packet",
"shipping",
"tariff"
] | The United States has announced plans to withdraw from a 144-year postal treaty that sets lower international shipping rates. The US claims this treaty gives countries like China and Singapore an unfair advantage that floods the US market with cheap packages.
The BBC reports
the withdraw of this treaty will increase sh... | 154 | 36 | [
{
"comment_id": "5305947",
"author": "Saabman",
"timestamp": "2018-10-18T05:19:56",
"content": "Maybe politicians aren’t quiet getting it right but it is about time something is done to level the playing field somewhat.For sometime now we have been paying prices well below cost. Which would be unsus... | 1,760,374,178.340869 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/use-nodes-to-code-loads-of-g-code-for-3d-cnc-carving/ | Use Nodes To Code Loads Of G-code For 3D CNC Carving | Brian Boucheron | [
"cnc hacks",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"3d",
"CAD CAM",
"cnc",
"grasshopper",
"Rhino"
] | Most CNC workflows start with a 3D model, which is then passed to CAM software to be converted into the G-code language that CNC machines love and understand. G-code, however, is simple enough that rudimentary coding skills are all you need to start writing your very own programmatic CNC tool paths. Any language that c... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5305528",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-18T03:18:30",
"content": "SketchUp.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5305783",
"author": "Pez",
"timestamp": "2018-10-18T04:23:14",
"content": "Sketc... | 1,760,374,177.65735 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/3d-printing-halloween-style/ | 3D Printing, Halloween Style | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Holiday Hacks"
] | [
"3d printer",
"ball and socket",
"halloween",
"joint",
"pumpkin",
"spider"
] | The wonders of 3D printing don’t stop coming. Whether it’s printing tools on the International Space Station, printing houses out of concrete, or just making spare parts for a child’s toy, there’s virtually nothing you can’t get done with the right 3D printer, including
spicing up your Halloween decorations
.
Not only ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5304835",
"author": "LordNothing",
"timestamp": "2018-10-18T00:41:14",
"content": "its so cute!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5305880",
"author": "Derek Tombrello",
"timestamp": "2018-10-18T04:51:56",
"content": "I... | 1,760,374,177.813325 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/diy-arc-light-makes-an-unnecessarily-powerful-bicycle-headlight/ | DIY Arc Light Makes An Unnecessarily Powerful Bicycle Headlight | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"18650",
"arc",
"arc light",
"ballast",
"bicycle",
"electrode",
"graphite",
"lithium ion",
"plasma",
"reflector"
] | Remember when tricking out a bike with a headlight meant clamping a big, chrome, bullet-shaped light to your handlebar and bolting a small generator to your front fork? Turning on the headlight meant flipping the generator into contact with the front wheel, powering the incandescent bulb for the few feet it took for th... | 39 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "5303110",
"author": "Perry",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T20:20:37",
"content": "Oh My God.So Cool Guys.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5303215",
"author": "2ftg",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T20:29:50",
"content": "I just ... | 1,760,374,177.890178 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/sonic-robots-dont-play-instruments-they-are-the-instruments/ | Sonic Robots Don’t Play Instruments, They Are The Instruments | Donald Papp | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Robots Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"diy",
"midi",
"music",
"robot band",
"robots",
"sonic robots",
"techno",
"techno music"
] | [Moritz Simon Geist]’s experiences as both a classically trained musician and a robotics engineer is clearly what makes his
Techno Music Robots project
so stunningly executed. The robotic electronic music he has created involves no traditional instruments of any kind. Instead, the robots themselves are the instruments,... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5299894",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T19:03:28",
"content": "Electromechanical instruments played and looped by human operator. No robots at all. Midi triggered no doubt. RGB,RGB,RGB,RGB…..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"... | 1,760,374,177.935809 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/the-supercon-badge-is-a-freakin-computer/ | The Supercon Badge Is A Freakin’ Computer | Mike Szczys | [
"cons",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Superconference",
"badge",
"badge hacking",
"badgelife",
"basic",
"basic badge",
"pic32",
"retrocomputer",
"retrocomputing",
"Supercon",
"Supercon badge"
] | It hangs around your neck, comes with the cost of admission, and would blow away a desktop computer from the 1980’s. This is the Hackaday Superconference badge and you can
get your hands on one for the price of admission
to the ultimate hardware conference.
Everyone through the door gets one of these badges featuring a... | 55 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "5299018",
"author": "deshipu",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T17:05:27",
"content": "One of these days I will actually get a PIC programmer to be able to hack this badge.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5299186",
"author": "... | 1,760,374,178.444949 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/friday-hack-chat-visual-synthesis/ | Friday Hack Chat: Visual Synthesis | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"Hack Chat",
"synthesis",
"video",
"video synthesis"
] | For this week’s Hack Chat, we’re going to be discussing
generating analog video for visual synthesis
. What’s on the front porch?
Our guest for this week’s Hack Chat will be Jonas Bers, an audiovisual artist and performer. For their work they used hacked video mixers, a hand-built video synthesizer, and various pieces ... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,374,177.978689 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/balancing-robots-from-off-the-shelf-parts/ | Balancing Robots From Off-The-Shelf Parts | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"balancing",
"ESP32",
"self balancing",
"Self Balancing Robot"
] | In this day and age, we are truly blessed as far as the electronics hobby is concerned. Advanced modules such as gyros and motor controllers are readily available, not just as individual parts, but as pre-soldered modules that can be wired together with a minimum of fuss and at low cost.
This simple balancing robot is ... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5298923",
"author": "Tony",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T16:22:05",
"content": "ESP32 must give more horsepower to this B-Robot version. It’ll be interesting to see some adds on like sound sensors or use an OV7660 for video or frame capture.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,178.035362 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/hacking-when-it-counts-setting-sail-in-a-submarine/ | Hacking When It Counts: Setting Sail In A Submarine | Dan Maloney | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"boat",
"hacking when it counts",
"mast",
"military",
"mizzen",
"Naval",
"sail",
"ship",
"submarine",
"yard"
] | By the early 20th century, naval warfare was undergoing drastic technological changes. Ships were getting better and faster engines and were being outfitted with wireless communications, while naval aviation was coming into its own. The most dramatic changes were taking place below the surface of the ocean, though, as ... | 44 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "5298673",
"author": "AKA the A",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T14:12:30",
"content": "Submarines never had and still don’t have armor…the thick metal you might see in accurate cutaways is just structural.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_... | 1,760,374,178.530498 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/flamethrower-gets-update-retains-some-sketchiness/ | Flamethrower Gets Update, Retains Some Sketchiness | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"butane",
"flamethrower",
"upgrade",
"wrist mount"
] | Part of what makes flamethrowers fun is their inherent danger. This is what makes a lot of things fun, though, from snowboarding to skydiving to motorcycle riding. As with all of these sensible hobbies, though, it’s important to take as much unnecessary risk out of the activity as possible to make sure you’re around as... | 16 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5298556",
"author": "cpearmain",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T13:28:10",
"content": "Hmm… fails my first test of flamethrower projects: Can I drop it easily and run away when a malfunction envelops the entire device in clouds of flame.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"repli... | 1,760,374,179.237374 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/17/can-a-motorized-bicycle-run-on-trees/ | Can A Motorized Bicycle Run On Trees? | Brian Benchoff | [
"Slider",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"bicycle",
"preppers",
"wood gas",
"wood gas generator"
] | Some of the earliest automobiles weren’t powered by refined petrochemicals, but instead wood gas. This wood gas is produced by burning wood or charcoal, capturing the fumes given off, and burning those fumes again. During World War II, nearly every European country was under gasoline rations, and tens of thousands of a... | 59 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "5297434",
"author": "walter",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T08:40:25",
"content": "Here is a proven design, named “Constance” that can be build with off-the-shelf materials :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20RhuGSYN5YIt´s powerful enough for a small motorbike",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,374,179.468207 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/16/libssh-vuln-you-dont-need-to-see-my-authentication/ | LibSSH Vuln: You Don’t Need To See My Authentication | Jonathan Bennett | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"computer security",
"CVE-2018-10933",
"libssh",
"ssh"
] | Another day, another CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). Getting a CVE number assigned to a vulnerability is a stamp of authenticity that you have a real problem on your hands.
CVE-2018-10933
is a worst case scenario for libssh. With a single response, an attacker can completely bypass authentication, giving f... | 19 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5297203",
"author": "defdefred",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T06:52:50",
"content": "Hopefully not use by dropbear…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5299356",
"author": "daid303",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T18:50:39",... | 1,760,374,179.523527 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/16/fido2-authentication-in-all-the-colors/ | FIDO2 Authentication In All The Colors | Jonathan Bennett | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"2FA",
"computer security",
"kickstarter",
"open source"
] | Here at Hackaday, we have a soft spot for security dongles. When
a new two-factor-authentication dongle
is open source, uses USB and NFC, and supports FIDO2, the newest 2FA standard, we take notice. That just happens to be exactly what [Conor Patrick] is
funding on Kickstarter
.
We’ve looked at [Conor]’s
first generati... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5297180",
"author": "cyk",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T06:33:19",
"content": "The colour of that thing is probably the most unimportant attribute of all.What about a stretch goal, that promises to support the nRF52840 dongle?It’s already in their github rep, but that doesn’t contain mu... | 1,760,374,179.575757 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/16/modular-violin-takes-a-bow/ | Modular Violin Takes A Bow | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"3d printer",
"design",
"fiddle",
"modular",
"music",
"sound",
"violin"
] | They say the only difference between a violin and a fiddle is the way you play it. If that’s so, this modular violin will need a new name, since it can be
broken apart and changed in ways that make it sound completely different
, all within a few minutes.
The fiddle is the work of [David Perry] and has 3D printed body,... | 10 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5295125",
"author": "sea burt",
"timestamp": "2018-10-16T23:29:02",
"content": "Martin Molin of Wintergatan also has a modular violin, but his is a more than a bit different. In his case it’s a modular synthesizer played like a violin:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUdWeBYe3GY",
... | 1,760,374,179.861709 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/16/hacker-pops-top-on-nfc-vending-machines/ | Hacker Pops Top On NFC Vending Machines | Tom Nardi | [
"Android Hacks",
"Cellphone Hacks",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"android",
"apktool",
"database",
"disclosure",
"NFC",
"root",
"security",
"vending machine"
] | Vending machines used to be a pretty simple affair: you put some coins in, and food or drink that in all likelihood isn’t fit for human consumption comes out. But like everything else today, they are becoming increasingly complex Internet connected devices. Forget fishing around for pocket change; the Coke machine at t... | 23 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5294178",
"author": "Ethan Slamberry",
"timestamp": "2018-10-16T20:10:17",
"content": "As someone who used to write software for vending machines and vending machine peripherals, you wouldn’t be surprised by how insecure it all is. It’s basically duct tape, bubble gum and paper clip... | 1,760,374,179.64139 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/16/these-twenty-projects-won-the-musical-instrument-challenge-in-the-hackaday-prize/ | These Twenty Projects Won The Musical Instrument Challenge In The Hackaday Prize | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"Musical Instrument Challnege"
] | The Hackaday Prize
is the greatest hardware competition on the planet. It’s the Academy Awards of Open hardware, and over the past few months we’ve challenged makers and artists to create the Next Big Thing. All things must come to an end, though, and last week we wrapped up the final challenge in the Hackaday Prize. T... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5293988",
"author": "Mechanicus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-16T19:33:15",
"content": "Wow really surprised the “amazing” judges didnt pick a piss strummed guitar.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5294042",
"author": "crizna... | 1,760,374,179.695544 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/16/cool-tools-deus-ex-autorouter/ | Cool Tools: Deus Ex Autorouter | Kerry Scharfglass | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"autorouter",
"eda",
"ee design",
"electrical cad",
"jitx",
"KiCAD"
] | The first thing you probably asked yourself when learning how to lay out PCBs was “can’t the computer do this?” which inevitably led to the phrase “never trust the autorouter!”. Even if it hooks up a few traces the result will probably be strange to human eyes; not a design you’d want to use.
But what if the autorouter... | 35 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "5293571",
"author": "Untrustworthy",
"timestamp": "2018-10-16T17:14:40",
"content": "So, this is a hack-vertisement. Can Hackaday please not stoop so low as to have ‘native advertising’ like so many sites are doing these days?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,374,179.772839 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/16/just-in-time-for-halloween-another-talking-skull/ | Just In Time For Halloween: Another Talking Skull | Al Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"animated",
"halloween",
"skull"
] | It isn’t a unique idea, but we liked [Eric Wiemers’s] take on the
classic animated skull for Halloween
. In addition to showing you the code and the wiring, the video spends some time discussing what the audio looks like and what has to happen to get it into a format suitable for the Arduino. You can see the spooky vid... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "5293393",
"author": "bty",
"timestamp": "2018-10-16T15:54:57",
"content": "Guybrush Threepwood: “You’re about as fearsome as a doorstop.”Murray: “Is it a really evil-looking doorstop?”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5293493",
... | 1,760,374,179.813746 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/16/the-science-of-landing-on-an-asteroid/ | The Science Of Landing On An Asteroid | Dan Maloney | [
"Current Events",
"Engineering",
"Space"
] | [
"asteroid",
"Hayabusa",
"Hayabusa2",
"JAXA",
"mining",
"robot",
"rover"
] | Exploiting the resources of the rock-strewn expanse of space between Mars and the outer planets has been the stuff of science fiction for ages. There’s gold in them ‘thar space rocks, or diamonds, or platinum, or something that makes them attractive targets for capitalists and scientists alike. But before actually extr... | 17 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5293198",
"author": "AKA the A",
"timestamp": "2018-10-16T14:22:48",
"content": "What is this “torquer” you speak of and why does it look like a reaction wheel?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wheel",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"com... | 1,760,374,179.919037 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/16/life-imitates-art-3d-printed-banksy-frame-shreds-oeuvre-prints-money/ | Life Imitates Art: 3D Printed Banksy Frame “Shreds” Oeuvre, Prints Money | Adam Fabio | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"art",
"Banksy",
"money printer",
"shred"
] | [Dave Buchanan] is giving the world his own take on the now famous shredding Banksy frame. This version has a few extra features though – like
reverse shredding and printing money
! Like many of us, [David] was impressed with the Banksy art auction shredding last week. We’re
still not sure how he pulled it off
, and th... | 14 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5292588",
"author": "ytrewq",
"timestamp": "2018-10-16T11:25:45",
"content": "1- Remove cutter blades2- Put inside a roll of Banksy-inspired toilet paper3- Profit!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5292739",
"author": "OG Styl... | 1,760,374,179.971254 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/16/performing-a-chip-transplant-to-resurrect-a-dead-board/ | Performing A Chip Transplant To Resurrect A Dead Board | Steven Dufresne | [
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth module",
"Espruino",
"nRF52832",
"repair hack",
"surface mount"
] | [Uri Shaked] accidentally touched a GPIO pin on his 3.3 V board with a 12 V alligator clip, frying the board. Sound familiar? A replacement would have cost $60, which for him wasn’t cheap. Also, he needed it for an upcoming conference so time was of the essence. His only option
was to try to fix it
, which in the end i... | 12 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5292080",
"author": "OiD",
"timestamp": "2018-10-16T09:11:36",
"content": "Yep, sounds familiar. This weekend I pumped 13V into a 1.1V rail when my probe slipped! The 43″ display controller was already toast but I made extra sure by killing the Tcon board.Nice save with the chip tra... | 1,760,374,181.668451 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/15/circuit-bending-a-tv-for-better-input/ | Circuit Bending A TV For Better Input | Brian Benchoff | [
"Video Hacks"
] | [
"crt",
"retro",
"retrocomputing",
"rgb",
"tv"
] | If you haven’t noticed, CRTs are getting hard to find. You can’t get them in Goodwill, because thrift stores don’t take giant tube TVs anymore. You can’t find them on the curb set out for the trash man, because they won’t pick them up. It’s hard to find them on eBay, because no one wants to ship them. That’s a shame, b... | 55 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "5291285",
"author": "Jonathan Wilson",
"timestamp": "2018-10-16T06:20:45",
"content": "There is a follow-up video that includes using the same TV for VGA via a converter cable and some dos drivers so the VGA card will output the correct frequency for an NTSC TV.https://www.youtube.c... | 1,760,374,181.762838 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/15/hams-see-dark-side-of-the-moon-without-pink-floyd/ | Hams See Dark Side Of The Moon Without Pink Floyd | Al Williams | [
"News",
"Radio Hacks",
"Space"
] | [
"china",
"ham radio",
"lunar",
"moon",
"OSCAR",
"satellite"
] | Ham radio operators bouncing signals off the moon have become old hat. But a ham radio transmitter on the Chinese Longjiang-2 satellite is orbiting the moon and has sent back
pictures of the Earth and the dark side of the moon
. The transceiver’s main purpose is to allow hams to downlink telemetry and relay messages vi... | 36 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5290414",
"author": "Bunsen",
"timestamp": "2018-10-16T03:29:50",
"content": "There is no dark side of the Moon, really. Matter of fact, with an average albedo of 0.12, it’s all dark.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5290805",... | 1,760,374,182.346072 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/15/hybrid-robot-walks-transforms-and-takes-flight/ | Hybrid Robot Walks, Transforms, And Takes Flight | Donald Papp | [
"drone hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"biped",
"cc3d",
"cc3d atom",
"flight controller",
"malaikat",
"robot",
"Transformers (Sci-Fi)",
"walking",
"walking robot"
] | [Project Malaikat] is a 3D printed hybrid bipedal walker and quadcopter robot, but there’s much more to it than just sticking some props and a flight controller to a biped and calling it a day. Not only is it a custom design capable of
a careful but deliberate two-legged gait
, but the props are tucked away and deploye... | 10 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5289378",
"author": "Eric Chapin",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T23:19:34",
"content": "Better not let Skynet get ahold of this one. We don’t need Decepticons invading Earth.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5289455",
"author": "i... | 1,760,374,181.878252 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/15/wind-turbine-pushes-limits-of-desktop-3d-printing/ | Wind Turbine Pushes Limits Of Desktop 3D Printing | Tom Nardi | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"green hacks"
] | [
"generator",
"rectifier",
"stepper motor",
"turbine",
"wind power"
] | There was a time, not so long ago, when hype for desktop 3D printing as so high that it seemed you could print
anything.
Just imagine it, and your handy dandy magical 3D printer could manifest it into reality. But now that more people have had first hand experience with the technology, the bubble has burst. Reality has... | 36 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "5288715",
"author": "Jerry",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T20:20:11",
"content": "A breath of fresh air.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5288982",
"author": "jacobchrist",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T21:45:26",
... | 1,760,374,182.071344 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/15/the-incredible-judges-of-the-hackaday-prize-2/ | The Incredible Judges Of The Hackaday Prize | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"2018 Hackaday Superconference",
"judges"
] | The last challenge of
The Hackaday Prize
has ended. 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 winner, we’re tapping some of the greats in the hardware world to judge these astonis... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "5298613",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2018-10-17T13:49:26",
"content": "“Incredible”,as in, their judgement can’t be believed?B^)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,374,182.173109 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/15/teardown-d50761-aircraft-quick-access-recorder/ | Teardown: D50761 Aircraft Quick Access Recorder | Tom Nardi | [
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Retrocomputing",
"Slider",
"Teardown"
] | [
"aircraft",
"flight data recorder",
"RS-422",
"sensors",
"tape drive",
"teardown",
"z80"
] | Everyone’s heard of the “black box”. Officially known as the Flight Data Recorder (FDR), it’s a mandatory piece of equipment on commercial aircraft. The FDR is instrumental in investigating incidents or crashes, and is specifically designed to survive should the aircraft be destroyed. The search for the so-called “blac... | 37 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "5288203",
"author": "HP Curious",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T17:41:27",
"content": "Maybe the connector wasn’t tied down because someone got there before you. Maybe they saw the battery leakage, decided it wasn’t worth repairing. Then they reassembled it without replacing ties or snap... | 1,760,374,182.271673 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/15/the-3d-printed-plotter-you-didnt-know-you-needed/ | The 3D Printed Plotter You Didn’t Know You Needed | Tom Nardi | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"linear bearing",
"plotter",
"RAMPS",
"reprap",
"smooth rod"
] | We’ve been seeing an influx of repurposed 3D printers recently. Thrifty hackers have been leveraging cheap 3D printers as a way to bootstrap their builds, on everything from laser engravers to pick and place machines. There’s nothing wrong with that, and honestly when you can get a cheap 3D printer for less than the co... | 19 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "5287972",
"author": "Eighties Survivor",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T16:03:36",
"content": "So, what are people using these for? Don’t get me wrong, I like a good project done just for the sake of the project as much as anyone. There seems to be a plotter theme going though lately so I... | 1,760,374,182.132543 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/15/construction-cranes-versus-hurricanes/ | Construction Cranes Versus Hurricanes | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Slider"
] | [
"construction crane",
"hurricane",
"luffing jib",
"typhoon",
"Typhoon Manghut",
"weather vane"
] | When engineers are designing buildings, bridges, or other large construction projects, a lot of thought is given to the environment. Some of these considerations might seem obvious, like designing a skyscraper in San Francisco to tolerate earthquakes, building a stadium in New York City to hold up not only its own weig... | 14 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5287826",
"author": "Kevin B",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T14:43:57",
"content": "I want to hear what could easily be done in a few days. Like extra bracing, taking down sections of the boom. I bet the bare tower would withstand some very serious wind. The bare tower with guy lines, be... | 1,760,374,182.403417 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/15/shedding-a-bit-of-light-on-some-logic/ | Shedding A Bit Of Light On Some Logic | Jenny List | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"CdS cell",
"led",
"logic"
] | When it comes to logic technologies, we like to think we’ve seen them all here at Hackaday. But our community never ceases to surprise us with its variety and ingenuity, so it should be a surprise that [Dr Cockroach] has delivered one we’ve not seen before.
Light logic
doesn’t use the conventional active devices you’d ... | 30 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5287360",
"author": "Mike Massen",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T11:22:07",
"content": "Hmm, with just the right mix of (rather higher) resistor values and appropriate value and location of some old style paper capacitors one could produce a series of logic gate permutations which acted ... | 1,760,374,181.830264 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/14/detect-elevated-carbon-monoxide-levels/ | Detect Elevated Carbon Monoxide (Levels) | Brian McEvoy | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"carbon monoxide",
"circuit.io",
"CO",
"detection",
"gas",
"lighter-than-air",
"toxic"
] | The molar mass of carbon monoxide (CO) is 28.0, and the molar mass of air is 28.8, so CO will rise in an ambient atmosphere. It makes sense to detect it farther from the ground, but getting a tall ladder is not convenient and certainly doesn’t make for fast deployment. What do you do if you don’t care for heights and w... | 27 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5280183",
"author": "some guy",
"timestamp": "2018-10-14T11:13:15",
"content": "Those cheap (chinese) sensors look interesting, but how do you calibrate them? I don’t want to mess with CO. There are precalibrated modules with digital IO avaible but they are quite expensive.",
"p... | 1,760,374,182.467695 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/14/r3-14-the-personal-assistant-two-years-in-the-making/ | R3-14, The Personal Assistant Two Years In The Making | Al Williams | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"face tracking",
"google home",
"Personal Assistant",
"raspberry pi",
"siri"
] | One of the great things about hacking together projects these days is how many powerful subsystems are readily available to reuse. [Sanjeet] took full advantage of a whole slate of reusable pieces when he built R3-14 — a
personal assistant robot
that you can see in action in the video below.
Many people started out in ... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "5280464",
"author": "swdfsfeeee",
"timestamp": "2018-10-14T13:39:58",
"content": "When you embed a youtube video in your posts, could you also link to it in the post? so I don’t have to unblock youtube.com in the uMatrix addon…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,374,182.917187 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/13/arcade-asteroids-now-in-colour/ | Arcade Asteroids, Now In Colour | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"Asteroids",
"color",
"colour",
"retrogaming",
"vector",
"vector display",
"vector monitor"
] | Asteroids is one of the classic games of the early arcade era. Launched in 1979 by Atari, it relied upon using an XY vector monitor to deliver crisp graphics for its space-based gameplay. One of the limitations of the original arcade games was that the game was only rendered in a single colour, white.
Over 30 years lat... | 11 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5279153",
"author": "rnjacobs",
"timestamp": "2018-10-14T05:48:05",
"content": "… but (R AND (R OR G OR B OR W)) is identical to R …?I’d be tempted to replace the original resistor ladder with a ROMDAC. Since using only the SCALEn outputs would dramatically underuse any ROM at all, ... | 1,760,374,182.88142 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/13/mergers-and-acquisitions-apple-buys-most-of-dialog/ | Mergers And Acquisitions: Apple Buys Most Of Dialog | Brian Benchoff | [
"News"
] | [
"apple",
"mergers and acquisitions"
] | Apple is buying a $600 million stake in Dialog Semiconductor
in a deal Dialog is describing as an asset transfer and licensing deal.
Dialog’s current portfolio is focused mainly on mobile devices, with
Bluetooth wearables-on-a-chip
,
CODEC chips for smartphones
, and power management ICs for every type of portable elec... | 16 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5276528",
"author": "Yann Guidon / YGDES",
"timestamp": "2018-10-14T02:20:30",
"content": "“heat management” at Apple…double meaning here ? :-D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5276691",
"author": "Brian Benchoff",
... | 1,760,374,182.827571 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/13/dymo-rides-again-with-this-dot-matrix-label-embosser/ | Dymo Rides Again With This Dot-Matrix Label Embosser | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"daisy wheel",
"dot matrix",
"dymo",
"embossing",
"label",
"labeler",
"solenoid"
] | For a five-year-old future Hackaday scribe, there could be no greater day than that on which a Dymo label maker appeared in the house. With its spinny daisy-wheel to choose a character and its squeezy handle to emboss the letter into the plastic tape, there would follow a period of going nuts kerchunking out misspelled... | 21 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5275831",
"author": "delmar",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T23:37:20",
"content": "A little rubber stopper would go along way to deaden the sound of the banging. Great build.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5275985",
"autho... | 1,760,374,182.77165 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/13/the-solution-to-djs-playing-their-macbooks/ | The Solution To DJs Playing Their MacBooks | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"Musical Instrument challenge",
"synth",
"VSTI"
] | The greatest invention relating to music in the 20th century was multi-track recording, for which we have Les Paul to thank. The second greatest? Non-linear editing and Pro Tools. For some bizarre reason, we have Ricky Martin to thank for that because
Livin’ La Vida Loca
was the first #1 single to be recorded and mixed... | 29 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5275402",
"author": "1",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T20:45:10",
"content": "Just going to leave this here. Playing perfect music over a long set in front of a live audience seems to go better more often than one might expect is all.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSQN6Mvr_M",
"par... | 1,760,374,182.98739 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/13/tiny-telescope-for-simple-radio-astronomy/ | Tiny Telescope For Simple Radio Astronomy | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"radio",
"Radio Astronomy",
"Radio Telescope"
] | We are used to imagining radio telescopes as immense pieces of scientific apparatus, such as the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, or the Lovell telescope in the UK. It’s a surprise then that they can be constructed on a far more modest sale using off-the-shelf components, and it’s a path that [Gonçalo Nespral] has t... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5275627",
"author": "jafinch78",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T22:18:18",
"content": "“… modest scale…” vs “… modest sale…”? Maybe was meant to be. I know all the dish’s I salvaged were all free. :-|)Awesome to see a lazy suzan design. I’ve not seen any others that look sort of like a... | 1,760,374,182.710585 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/15/degaussing-coil-to-restore-gameplay-like-its-1985/ | Degaussing Coil To Restore Gameplay Like It’s 1985 | Steven Dufresne | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"degauss",
"degaussing",
"demagnetizer"
] | You may think that cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs and monitors have gone the way of the dinosaur, but you’d be wrong. Many still have them for playing video games at home or in arcades, for vintage computing, and yes, even for watching television programs. [Nesmaniac] uses his TV for playing Super Mario Bros but for severa... | 24 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "5286650",
"author": "thearduinoguy",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T08:42:08",
"content": "Why not just buy an LCD monitor with a composite input?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5286762",
"author": "John blackthorn",
... | 1,760,374,183.055774 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/14/diy-wire-bender-gets-wires-all-bent-into-shape/ | DIY Wire Bender Gets Wires All Bent Into Shape | Steven Dufresne | [
"cnc hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"bender",
"stepper motor",
"wire",
"wire bender"
] | It’s been a while since we’ve shown a DIY wire bending machine, and [How To Mechatronics]
has come up with an elegant design with easy construction
through the use of 3D-printed parts which handle most of the inherent complexity. This one also has a Z-axis so that you can produce 3D wire shapes. And as with all wire be... | 31 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "5285773",
"author": "Gregg Eshelman",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T05:32:58",
"content": "This is wire bending. :)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQIYZ-iKuG4This DIY version needs a retractable bending peg.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comme... | 1,760,374,183.317924 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/14/glasses-for-the-hearing-impaired/ | Glasses For The Hearing Impaired? | Al Williams | [
"Lifehacks"
] | [
"augmented reality",
"closed captioning",
"epson",
"hearing impaired",
"hearing loss"
] | If you don’t have hearing loss, it is easy to forget just how much you depend on your ears. Hearing aids are great if you can afford them, but they aren’t like glasses where they immediately improve your sense in almost every way. In addition to having to get used to a hearing aid you’ll often find increased noise and ... | 10 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5285501",
"author": "Xeon",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T04:33:17",
"content": "very nice initiative that will help many howeverthis device has got me thinking.voice recognition with this..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5288215"... | 1,760,374,183.100855 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/14/hackaday-links-october-14-2018/ | Hackaday Links: October 14, 2018 | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"3d printing",
"alexa",
"kickstarter",
"moog",
"RISC-V"
] | Here’s something of interest of 3D printing enthusiasts. How do you print
lightweight
3D objects? [Tom Stanton] does a lot of stuff with 3D printing and RC airplanes, so yeah, he’s probably the guy you want to talk to.
His solution is Simplify3D
, printing two layers for whatever nozzle diameter you have, some skills w... | 14 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5281653",
"author": "makomk",
"timestamp": "2018-10-14T23:17:40",
"content": "“Note: the glasses are not intended to be worn while driving and are not designed for medical use.” Let me guess, it blocks the LCD displays in modern car dashboards too?",
"parent_id": null,
"dept... | 1,760,374,183.244783 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/14/listen-to-song-made-from-custom-nintendo-labo-waveform-cards/ | Listen To A Song Made From Custom Nintendo LABO Waveform Cards | Donald Papp | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Nintendo Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"3d printed",
"I LIKE YOU",
"Labo",
"music",
"nintendo",
"Nintento LABO",
"piano",
"reverse engineering",
"snes",
"waveform",
"waveform card"
] | [Hunter Irving] has been busy with the Nintendo LABO’s piano for the Nintendo Switch. In particular he’s been very busy
creating his own custom waveform cards
, which greatly expands the capabilities of the hackable cardboard contraption. If this sounds familiar, it’s because we covered
his original method
of creating ... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "5281302",
"author": "zuul",
"timestamp": "2018-10-14T21:08:03",
"content": "some modern day oramics",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5285934",
"author": "Steven Clark",
"timestamp": "2018-10-15T06:06:13",
"content": "... | 1,760,374,183.370163 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/14/synthesizing-mother-natures-sounds-like-youve-never-seen-before/ | Synthesizing Mother Nature’s Sounds Like You’ve Never Seen Before | Steven Dufresne | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"nature",
"oscillator",
"piezo speaker",
"synthesizer"
] | We’ve all heard the range of sounds to be made electronically from mostly discrete components, but what [Kelly Heaton] has achieved with her many experiments is a whole other world, the world of nature to be exact. Her
seemingly chaotic circuits create a nighttime symphony
of frogs, crickets, and katydids, and a pleasa... | 13 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "5280815",
"author": "Abraham Camarillo",
"timestamp": "2018-10-14T17:29:43",
"content": "It’s interesting when you try for a specific sound circuit and it behaves randomly, producing a new kind of cool sound. This is a good example of those cool sounds. Thanks for sharing!",
"pa... | 1,760,374,183.724738 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/14/flash-arduino-vidor-fpga-instructions-hit-france/ | Flash: Arduino Vidor FPGA Instructions Hit France | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"FPGA",
"News"
] | [
"arduino",
"fpga",
"max10",
"Quartus",
"Vidor"
] | If you speak French and you have an Arduino Vidor 4000, you are in luck because there’s some good news. The good news is there’s finally some inside information about
how to configure the onboard FPGA
yourself. The bad news though is that it is pretty sparse. If your high school French isn’t up to the task, there’s alw... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5280512",
"author": "halherta",
"timestamp": "2018-10-14T14:14:04",
"content": "Oh look! The Arduino Vidor 4000 is still being being discussed on hackaday and hasn’t faded away like many of the Arduino boards before it. Call me impressed.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,183.54048 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/13/disney-builds-autonomous-graffiti-drone/ | Disney Builds Autonomous Graffiti Drone | Richard Baguley | [
"drone hacks"
] | [
"disney",
"drone"
] | Ever seen a bit of graffiti in a strange location and wondered how the graffiti artist got up there? It might have been a drone rather than an athletic teen. Disney research has just published an interesting
research paper that describes the PaintCopter
: an autonomous drone fitted with a can of spray paint on a pan-ti... | 31 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "5274335",
"author": "Rick (@NotSoRick)",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T15:44:07",
"content": "The image of the bear and strawberry tree makes me wonder if someone from Madrid had anything to do with this project. The Oso and Madroño are the image of Madrid.",
"parent_id": null,
"... | 1,760,374,183.674082 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/13/atlas-is-back-with-some-new-moves/ | Atlas Is Back With Some New Moves | Adam Fabio | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"atlas",
"biped",
"boston dynamics",
"robot"
] | Atlas is back, and this time he’s got some
sweet parkour moves to show off
. Every few months, Boston Dynamics gives us a tantalizing glimpse into their robotics development labs. They must be doing something right, as these videos never fail both to amaze and scare us. This time Atlas, Boston Dynamics humanoid bipedal... | 30 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "5273493",
"author": "walter",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T11:31:42",
"content": "we´ll need some retiarii drones to neutralize those robots. Or a combination of sticky substance bomb combined followed by a net.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"... | 1,760,374,183.607969 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/13/save-a-linotype-machine-for-future-generations/ | Save A Linotype Machine For Future Generations | Jenny List | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"hot metal print",
"Linotype",
"print",
"printing"
] | The journalist’s art is now one of the computer keyboard and the internet connection, but there was a time when it involved sleepless nights over a manual typewriter followed by time spent reviewing paper proofs freshly inked from hot lead type. Newspapers in the golden age of print media once had entire floors of mach... | 57 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "5272736",
"author": "LongnoseRob",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T08:04:51",
"content": "There is also one Linotype and also a Montype at The Hamburg Mueum of Workhttps://www.museum-der-arbeit.de/en/permanent-exhibitions/the-printing-trade.htm",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,183.819999 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/drone-ground-penetrating-radar-mine-detector/ | Drone + Ground Penetrating Radar = Mine Detector? | Richard Baguley | [
"drone hacks",
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"drone",
"mine",
"sdr"
] | Most civilized nations ban the use of landmines because they kill indiscriminately, and for years after they are planted. However, they are still used in many places around the world, and people are still left trying to find better ways to find and remove them. This group is looking at an interesting new approach:
usin... | 30 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5272339",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T05:14:18",
"content": "I imagine with Chip Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) the resolution could be higher.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5273774",
"author": "Dodo",
... | 1,760,374,183.940128 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/mike-tysons-punchout-patch-gives-hdtv-lag-a-k-o/ | Mike Tyson’s Punchout Patch Gives HDTV Lag A K.O. | Drew Littrell | [
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"NES hack",
"Nintendo Entertainment System",
"videogames"
] | They just don’t make them like they used to. Digital televisions have rendered so many of the videogames designed in the days where CRTs ruled the earth virtually unplayable due to display lag. Games that were already difficult thanks to tight reaction time windows can become rage inducing experiences when button press... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5271986",
"author": "ohnoitsaninja",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T03:37:27",
"content": "“lag patch” aka ez mode hacks..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5272014",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T03:42:31",
"con... | 1,760,374,183.873506 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/new-controller-for-retro-console/ | New Controller For Retro Console | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Games"
] | [
"5200",
"adapter",
"analog",
"atari",
"dual shock",
"gaming",
"playstation",
"retro"
] | In the world of retro gaming, when using emulators and non-native hardware it’s pretty common to use whatever USB controller happens to be available. This allows us to get a nostalgic look while using a configurable controller. One thing that isn’t as common is using the original hardware while still finding a way to ... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5271367",
"author": "Gregg Eshelman",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T00:01:17",
"content": "There’s a new total replacement 5200 controller PCB that uses a common analog thumbstick and a bunch of button switches. Even better it’s buildable for left or right hand.http://www.smbaker.com/hom... | 1,760,374,183.980166 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/measuring-the-stiffness-of-3d-printed-parts/ | Measuring The Stiffness Of 3D-Printed Parts | Dan Maloney | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"deflection",
"deformation",
"elasticity",
"stiffness",
"strength of materials",
"tensile strength",
"Young's modulus"
] | How do you choose filament when you want strong 3D-printed parts? Like most of us, you probably take a guess, or just use what you have on hand and hope for the best. But armed with a little knowledge on strength of materials, you might be able to make a more educated assessment.
To help you further your armchair mecha... | 16 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5270470",
"author": "Luke",
"timestamp": "2018-10-12T20:23:09",
"content": "The stiffness of plastics is a rather moot point, because plastics also have high creep. You leave them under any significant tension and they sag.https://thrinter.com/creep-abs-pla-petg-alloy-910/",
"pa... | 1,760,374,184.032814 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/video-shows-power-isnt-everything-in-laser-engraving/ | Video Shows Power Isn’t Everything In Laser Engraving | Donald Papp | [
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"co2 laser",
"dc laser",
"engraving",
"Laser cutting",
"laser engraving",
"rf laser",
"rf tube"
] | When it comes to power tools, generally speaking more watts is better. But as laser maestro [Martin Raynsford] shows,
watts aren’t everything
. He shares a brief video showing his older 100 W laser being handily outperformed by a newer 30 W machine. Shouldn’t the higher power laser be able to do the same job in less ti... | 22 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "5267963",
"author": "Ø",
"timestamp": "2018-10-12T06:17:22",
"content": "So is there a retrofit kit for machines of the “old” type to be outfitted with the new laser type?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5268393",
"aut... | 1,760,374,184.092792 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/bird-beats-cancer-with-the-help-of-a-3d-printed-prosthetic/ | Bird Beats Cancer With The Help Of A 3D-Printed Prosthetic | Dan Maloney | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Medical Hacks"
] | [
"avian",
"beak",
"bird",
"casque",
"hornbill",
"prosthetic",
"surgery",
"veterinary"
] | It’s a reasonable certainty that 3D-printing is one day going to be a huge part of medicine. From hip implants to stents that prop open blood vessels to whole organs laid down layer by layer, humans will probably benefit immensely from medical printing. But if they do, the animals will get there first; somebody has to ... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "5266792",
"author": "DainBramage",
"timestamp": "2018-10-12T02:30:39",
"content": "That is wonderfully amazing!Kudos to all involved with saving the life of this magnificent creature.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5266836",
... | 1,760,374,184.313726 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/swedish-front-plus-japanese-back-makes-for-useful-hybrid-camera/ | Swedish Front Plus Japanese Back Makes For Useful Hybrid Camera | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"fujifilm",
"Hasselblad",
"instant photography",
"Instax",
"polaroid"
] | Professional or amateur, doing things the hard way doesn’t always make for better results. Take photography as an example. Once upon a time, the success or failure of what happened during the instant that the camera’s shutter was open was only known hours or days later after processing the film. Ruin the shot with bad ... | 8 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5266270",
"author": "Matthew Lewis",
"timestamp": "2018-10-11T23:50:38",
"content": "i’ve been nailed by those flash caps before for a second it feels just like 110 that i’ve also been hit with",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "... | 1,760,374,184.540539 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/trashed-tv-gets-rgb-led-backlight/ | Trashed TV Gets RGB LED Backlight | Tom Nardi | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"backlight",
"lcd",
"led",
"RGB LED",
"salvage"
] | It might not be obvious unless you’ve taken one apart, but most of the TVs and monitors listed as “LED” are simply LCD panels that use a bank of LEDs to illuminate them from behind. Similarly, what are generally referred to as “LCDs” are LCD panels that use fluorescent tubes for illumination. To get a true LED display ... | 34 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "5265213",
"author": "limroh",
"timestamp": "2018-10-11T20:13:56",
"content": "“But the LCD panel itself was working fine (tested by shining a laser pointer through it to see if there was an image)”Isn’t that supposed to be “flashlight” instead of “laser pointer”?I cant imagine doing... | 1,760,374,184.497399 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/midi-controlled-neon/ | MIDI Controlled Neon | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"midi",
"neon"
] | The people who make neon signs are a vibrant community with glass bending and high voltage electronics. There is a need, though, to sequence these neon signs, and it seems like MIDI is the way to do it. That’s what [david] is
doing for his entry to the Hackaday Prize
, and the results already look great.
The idea for t... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "5270199",
"author": "RGW",
"timestamp": "2018-10-12T19:20:54",
"content": "Sure these are all true Neon filled tubes? Neon makes for a reddish light emission, but I see blue and white…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5271019",... | 1,760,374,184.26376 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/international-space-station-is-racing-the-clock-after-soyuz-failure/ | International Space Station Is Racing The Clock After Soyuz Failure | Tom Nardi | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"Slider",
"Space"
] | [
"CSA",
"dragon",
"international space station",
"nasa",
"roscosmos",
"salyut",
"Soyuz",
"SpaceX"
] | Today’s failed Soyuz launch thankfully resulted in no casualties, but the fate of the International Space Station (ISS) is now in question.
Just two minutes after liftoff, the crew of the Soyuz MS-10 found themselves in a situation that every astronaut since the beginning of the manned space program has trained for, bu... | 120 | 32 | [
{
"comment_id": "5264405",
"author": "Bill",
"timestamp": "2018-10-11T17:21:16",
"content": "Launching a new return spacecraft would seem to be the logical thing to do here.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5307915",
"author": "Mark",
... | 1,760,374,184.989095 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/ken-shirriff-chats-about-a-whole-world-of-chip-decapping/ | Ken Shirriff Chats About A Whole World Of Chip Decapping | Mike Szczys | [
"cons",
"Interviews"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Superconference",
"integrated circuits",
"ken shirriff",
"reverse engineering",
"silicon",
"Supercon"
] | Reverse engineering silicon is a dark art, and when you’re just starting off it’s best to stick to the lesser incantations, curses, and hexes. Hackaday caught up with Ken Shirriff at last year’s Supercon for a chat about the chip decapping and reverse engineering scene. His suggestion is to start with an old friend: th... | 16 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5264318",
"author": "Daniel Reetz",
"timestamp": "2018-10-11T16:51:21",
"content": "If you’re interested in getting started, Robert Baruch has done a pretty good job with a getting started guide:https://project5474.org/index.php?title=Procedure:Techniques– he covers a lot of the che... | 1,760,374,184.645327 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/an-open-source-toy-synth/ | An Open Source Toy Synth | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2018 Hackaday Prize",
"pure data",
"puredata",
"synth"
] | If you thought the future of electronic musical instruments was massive Emerson-class modular synths, giant MPCs with pads the size of Dance Dance Revolution machines, or hilariously expensive polysynths, you couldn’t be more wrong. The future is, effectively, toys. Those tiny little Korgs you can stuff in your pocket ... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "5271555",
"author": "Antonio Ross",
"timestamp": "2018-10-13T01:21:18",
"content": "Wow! Great project. It would be good to see this offered as a kit for a wider market?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "5271989",
"autho... | 1,760,374,184.5883 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/logic-analyzers-for-fpgas-a-verilog-odyssey/ | Logic Analyzers For FPGAs: A Verilog Odyssey | Al Williams | [
"Featured",
"FPGA"
] | [
"fpga",
"gtkwave",
"logic analyzer",
"verilog"
] | Sometimes you start something simple and then it just leads to a chain reaction of things. I wanted to write a post about doing state machines in Verilog and target the Lattice iCEstick board that we often use for quick FPGA projects. That led to a small problem: how do you show what’s going on inside? In this series o... | 10 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "5270003",
"author": "MagicWolfi",
"timestamp": "2018-10-12T18:34:29",
"content": "Al,When mentioning the commercial debuggers from Xilinx and Altera (love that you still use the proper name), Lattice also provides their own analyzer called Reveal Analyzer as part of Lattice Diamond.... | 1,760,374,184.743002 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/contest-results-raspberry-pis-put-on-a-show/ | Contest Results: Raspberry Pis Put On A Show | Al Williams | [
"contests",
"LED Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"Visualize It With Pi"
] | Some of the most satisfying projects of all are the ones that do something visual. All the network routers, data loggers, and thermostats are great. But we are visual creatures and even a humble blinking LED is enough to give you a little rush even compared to finding a large prime number. We wanted to see what our com... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "5269790",
"author": "planetclegg",
"timestamp": "2018-10-12T17:01:26",
"content": "How about a pi-zero-powered propaganda printer?https://twitter.com/cphackerspace/status/1050527069858422784",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,374,184.687131 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/down-the-diy-rabbit-hole-with-a-shop-ac-installation/ | Down The DIY Rabbit Hole With A Shop AC Installation | Dan Maloney | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"ac",
"air conditioner",
"climate control",
"hvac",
"manifold",
"mini-split",
"R-410A",
"vacuum"
] | There’s a fine line between a successful DIY project and one that ends in heartbreak. It’s subjective too; aside from projects that end up with fire trucks or ambulances in the driveway, what one DIYer would consider a disaster might be considered a great learning opportunity to someone else.
We’re pretty sure [Cressel... | 50 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "5269635",
"author": "Rog Fanther",
"timestamp": "2018-10-12T15:04:08",
"content": "If the problem was a mistake with a fitting, it could have happened to a pro also. The only difference is that the pro would have eaten the cost , or already have the tools to recover from the mistake... | 1,760,374,184.830777 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/retrotechtacular-robots-and-bowling-pins/ | Retrotechtacular: Robots And Bowling Pins | Mike Szczys | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Retrotechtacular",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"American Machine and Foundry",
"AMF",
"bowling",
"bowling machine",
"bowling robot",
"pinspotter"
] | On a recent bowling excursion it occurred to us that this is one of the most advanced robotics systems most Americans will directly interact with. That’s a bold claim today, but certainly one that was correct decades ago. Let’s take a stroll back to 1963 for a look at the state of the art in bowling at the time, the
AM... | 11 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5269529",
"author": "Bob Coggeshall (@BobCoggeshall)",
"timestamp": "2018-10-12T14:13:28",
"content": "I like how the ovipositor sets 3 pins at a time.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "5269575",
"author": "Steven Clark",
... | 1,760,374,185.037703 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/you-should-not-try-these-taser-nerf-darts/ | You Should Not Try These Taser NERF Darts | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"capacitor",
"charging",
"dart",
"high voltage",
"nerf",
"taser",
"toy"
] | For most of us, a good part of our childhood involved running around someone’s backyard (or inside the house) trying to score hits with a toy NERF gun. The fun level was high and the risk of personal injury was low. Now that we’re all mostly adults, it’s probably
time to take our NERF game to the next level
with some r... | 23 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "5269232",
"author": "Peter A Neilson",
"timestamp": "2018-10-12T11:36:25",
"content": "Did this without the fancy stuff half a century ago. Charged a 0.1 microfarad oil cap to 600 and tossed it to a friend. “Here, catch!” No real damage, of course, but [Frank] never trusted me again... | 1,760,374,185.093553 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/12/seeing-a-webcams-pcbs-in-a-whole-different-light/ | Seeing A Webcam’s PCBs In A Whole Different Light | Dan Maloney | [
"Teardown"
] | [
"inspection",
"optical",
"pcb",
"solder",
"teardown",
"vias",
"webcam",
"x-ray"
] | When it comes to inspection of printed circuits, most of us rely on the Mark I eyeball to see how we did with the soldering iron or reflow oven. And even when we need the help of some kind of microscope, our inspections are still firmly in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Pushing the frequency up a few... | 13 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "5268614",
"author": "Andy Pugh",
"timestamp": "2018-10-12T09:35:26",
"content": "I (briefly) worked for a company that made these X-ray microscopes trying to design a cheaper X-ray source tube. They use very hard and intense X-ray sources compared to medical imagers. Which isn’t to ... | 1,760,374,185.14288 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/the-crustacean-battle-bot-of-your-nightmares/ | The Crustacean Battle Bot Of Your Nightmares | Tom Nardi | [
"ATtiny Hacks",
"cooking hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"attiny85",
"fighting robots",
"food",
"mosfet",
"remote controlled",
"servo"
] | We’ve all seen a movie or TV show that got our imagination going, and the more studious of us might get fired up over a good book (one without pictures, even). You never know were inspiration might come from, which is why it’s so hard to track down in the first place. But one place we don’t often hear about providing m... | 10 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5264134",
"author": "komradebob",
"timestamp": "2018-10-11T15:08:54",
"content": "Why not just set a couple of live ones loose on the kitchen floor?Oh, right, that’s cruel. Better get them high first.https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/25/651466068/maine-asks-restaurant-to-... | 1,760,374,185.193592 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/i-ate-a-robot-hamburger-before-the-restaurant-went-out-of-business/ | I Ate A Robot Hamburger Before The Restaurant Went Out Of Business | Brian Benchoff | [
"cooking hacks",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Robots Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"business",
"Creator",
"robot",
"robot hamburger"
] | The future is upon us and the robots will soon take over. Automated cars will put Uber drivers and cabbies alike out of work. Low-wage workers, like the people working behind the counter at McDonalds, will be replaced by burger-flipping robots. The entire operation of Spacely Space Sprockets, Inc. is run by a single ma... | 86 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "5264049",
"author": "Rog Fanther",
"timestamp": "2018-10-11T14:13:42",
"content": "How long does it take to get the burger at Super Duper, and at Creator ?That aside, if they replace all of these low wage jobs with machines, who will buy their burgers ?",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,374,185.65871 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/soyuz-rocket-emergency-landing-everyone-ok/ | Soyuz Rocket Emergency Landing, Everyone OK | Elliot Williams | [
"News",
"Space"
] | [
"astronauts",
"international space station",
"iss",
"Soyuz",
"space"
] | NASA spokesperson [Brandi Dean]
summarized it succinctly
: “Confirming again that today’s Soyuz MS10 launch did go into ballistic re-entry mode … That means the crew will not be going to the ISS today. Instead they will be taking a sharp landing, coming back to earth”. While nobody likes last-minute changes in plans, w... | 38 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "5263958",
"author": "Eugene Mlodik",
"timestamp": "2018-10-11T13:03:36",
"content": "Right after Aleksey reported emergency to the ground control. He made a joke: “Быстро мы прилетели” – that can translated like “We arrived to soon.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"rep... | 1,760,374,185.355454 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/a-new-kid-on-the-mini-arm-block/ | A New Kid On The Mini ARM Block | Jenny List | [
"ARM",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"arm",
"ARM microcontroller",
"Synwit SWM050",
"TSOP8"
] | The breadboard microcontroller experimenter has a host of platforms to work with that can be had in the familiar DIP format. Old-school people can still find classic 8-bit platforms, the Ardunisti have their ATMegas, and PIC lovers have a pile of chips to choose from. But ARM experimenters? Out of luck, because as we h... | 30 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "5263705",
"author": "cpldcpu",
"timestamp": "2018-10-11T11:17:09",
"content": "Cypress has a couple of ARM MCUs in a similar package that are also quite cheap. No reason to jump on an unknown supplier.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"commen... | 1,760,374,185.726621 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/11/studying-airplane-radio-reflections-with-sdr/ | Studying Airplane Radio Reflections With SDR | Lewin Day | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"aircraft",
"radio",
"radio reflection",
"radio reflections",
"reflection",
"reflections",
"sdr"
] | A property of radio waves is that they tend to reflect off things. Metal surfaces in particular act as good reflectors, and by studying how these reflections work, it’s possible to achieve all manner of interesting feats. [destevez] decided to have some fun with reflections from local air traffic,
and was kind enough t... | 11 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "5263021",
"author": "Jesse",
"timestamp": "2018-10-11T08:39:43",
"content": "I’ve seen similar thing done with passive VHF Passive Bistatic Radar using Saint Petersburg TV Tower as transmitter.Link to doctoral thesis:https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/109287",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,374,185.403908 |
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