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https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/atari-lynx-becomes-modern-2600-console-homage/	Atari Lynx Becomes Modern 2600 Console Homage	Drew Littrell	[ "Games" ]	[ "atari", "Atari Lynx", "console mod", "hdmi out", "vga" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…00-01.jpeg?w=800	With its introduction in 1989, the Atari Lynx was the first handheld videogame system to include a color LCD. The gigantic size and equally gigantic price tag did not win-over a massive audience, but that doesn’t mean the Lynx was without its fans. Over the past few months a modder named [Jared] has been toiling away w...	5	3	[ { "comment_id": "5262524", "author": "Eric Chapin", "timestamp": "2018-10-11T06:58:44", "content": "Very nice mod. I wanted a consolized Lynx and I did have an adapter using Arduino to use a comfortable SNES controller for Lynx. SNES has enough buttons for A and B as well as Option 1, 2, and pause...	1,760,374,187.535268
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/the-little-cat-that-could/	The Little Cat That Could	Brian McEvoy	[ "Robots Hacks" ]	[ "3d printed", "ai", "artificial intelligence", "cat", "learning", "quaruped", "robot" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…walker.png?w=800	Most humans take a year to learn their first steps, and they are notoriously clumsy. [Hartvik Line] taught a robotic cat to walk [YouTube link] in less time, but this cat had a couple advantages over a pre-toddler. The first advantage was that it had four legs, while the second came from a machine learning technique ca...	10	5	[ { "comment_id": "5261040", "author": "Alan Kilian", "timestamp": "2018-10-11T02:09:50", "content": "I made a robot that learned to balance once.Not a good one, but nevertheless.https://youtu.be/RD2ZHtSvuco", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "52627...	1,760,374,188.17843
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/build-your-own-lan-cable-tester/	Build Your Own LAN Cable Tester	Al Williams	[ "Tool Hacks" ]	[ "555", "cable tester", "decade counter", "network cable" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…/cable.png?w=800	Sure, you can buy a cable tester, but what fun is that? [Ashish] posted a nice looking cable tester that you can build with or without an onboard Arduino. If you don’t use an Arduino, the project uses a 555 chip to test the eight wires in an Ethernet cable. The readout is simple. When testing a conductor, one of 8 LEDs...	35	18	[ { "comment_id": "5260447", "author": "wulfman", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T23:29:53", "content": "Well It would have been more convenient to have the LEDS in a separate device for testing cables that dont have the ends in the same place", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ {...	1,760,374,187.78651
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/recovering-data-from-a-vintage-mfm-drive/	Recovering Data From A Vintage MFM Drive	Tom Nardi	[ "computer hacks", "Retrocomputing" ]	[ "isa", "ms-dos", "netboot", "PXE", "scsi", "usb" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…_feat1.jpg?w=800	Even if you aren’t a vintage computer aficionado, you’re probably aware that older computer hard drives were massive and didn’t hold much data. Imagine a drive that weighs several pounds, and only holds 1/1000th of what today’s cheapest USB flash drives can. But what you might not realize is that if you go back long en...	53	15	[ { "comment_id": "5259123", "author": "stickben", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T20:06:22", "content": "The only thing I liked about MFM was the spaceship like sounds it made.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5260023", "author": "Ostracus", ...	1,760,374,187.889196
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/the-3d-printed-guitar/	The 3D Printed Guitar	Brian Benchoff	[ "3d Printer hacks", "Musical Hacks", "The Hackaday Prize" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Prize", "3d printed", "guitar" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.png?w=800	We just wrapped up the Musical Instrument Challenge in the Hackaday Prize, and that means we’re sorting through a ton of inventive electronic musical instruments. For whatever reason we can’t seem to find many non-electronic instruments. Yes, MPCs are cool, but so are strings and vibrating columns of air. That’s what m...	6	3	[ { "comment_id": "5258656", "author": "Doc Oct", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T18:34:20", "content": "Here’s the link:https://hackaday.io/project/161675-elektrocaster", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5259090", "author": "walter", "tim...	1,760,374,187.634075
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/the-555-and-how-it-got-that-way/	The 555 And How It Got That Way	Dan Maloney	[ "Hackaday Columns", "Slider" ]	[ "design", "fairchild", "Hans Camenzind", "How It Got That Way", "ic", "integrated circuit", "LM555", "Signetics", "timer" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	There’s a certain minimum set of stuff the typical Hackaday reader is likely to have within arm’s reach any time he or she is in the shop. Soldering station? Probably. Oscilloscope? Maybe. Multimeter? Quite likely. But there’s one thing so basic, something without which countless numbers of projects would be much more ...	117	21	[ { "comment_id": "5258231", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T17:09:00", "content": "“They balked at first, fearing a timer would cannibalize sales of other Signetics chips, but they eventually approved the idea.”A rather common thing in business.“The change meant losing two weeks of lay...	1,760,374,188.131668
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/friday-hack-chat-fpga-bootcamp/	Friday Hack Chat: FPGA Bootcamp	Brian Benchoff	[ "Hackaday Columns" ]	[ "Al Williams", "bootcamp", "fpga", "fpga bootcamp", "Hack Chat" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…header.png?w=800	For this week’s Hack Chat , we’re going to be talking all about FPGAs, with our own resident FPGA expert. This summer, Hackaday.io launched FPGA bootcamps , simple, easy-to-follow tutorials that will get you up and running with Verilog. These were all done by Al Williams, Hackaday’s resident FPGA hacker. Al’s an electr...	0	0	[]	1,760,374,187.581822
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/3d-printed-catamaran-eats-benchys-lunch/	3D Printed Catamaran Eats Benchy’s Lunch	Tom Nardi	[ "3d Printer hacks", "Toy Hacks" ]	[ "boat", "fiberglass", "remote control", "strut", "water cooled" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…t_feat.jpg?w=800	If we’ve learned anything, it’s that 3D printers are exceptionally well suited to printing little boats. According to the Internet, 3D printers are at their best when pumping out cute PLA boats in all the colors of the rainbow; perfect for collecting dust on a shelf somewhere. Ask not what your Benchy can do for you, a...	18	9	[ { "comment_id": "5257701", "author": "Ren", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T15:29:22", "content": "That is a cool looking boat!Now to build one big enough for people!", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5257829", "author": "wayne andrews", ...	1,760,374,187.70043
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/this-years-nobel-prizes-are-straight-out-of-science-fiction/	This Year’s Nobel Prizes Are Straight Out Of Science Fiction	Steven Dufresne	[ "Current Events", "Hackaday Columns", "News", "Original Art", "Science", "Slider" ]	[ "laser", "Nobel", "nobel prize winners", "optics" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…erloop.jpg?w=800	In the 1966 science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage, medical personnel are shrunken to the size of microbes to enter a scientist’s body to perform brain surgery. Due to the work of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, laser tools now do work at this scale. Arthur Ashkin won for his development of optical t...	22	9	[ { "comment_id": "5257717", "author": "Linda Roehrig", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T15:33:19", "content": "I am excited to hear of the many applications for lasers. Sounds like the tweezers could maybe remove the druzy inside my eyeball!", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, ...	1,760,374,188.343623
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/printrbot-post-mortem/	Printrbot Post Mortem	Al Williams	[ "3d Printer hacks", "News" ]	[ "3d printing", "printrbot" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…/10/pb.png?w=800	For many people, Printrbot was their first 3D printer. What started out as [Brook Drumm’s] Kickstarter idea to make 50 printers turned into over a thousand orders backlogged. To quote [Brook], they went from zero sales to about two million in the first year and then twelve million a few years later. As is often the cas...	48	18	[ { "comment_id": "5256820", "author": "Saabman", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T11:22:07", "content": "It seems to be a common story that an explosive growth ends In disaster. Lots of good products, ideas and people get kicked to the curb.I wish all the best to those involved for future ventures.", "pa...	1,760,374,187.973896
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/10/adding-bluetooth-to-original-snes-controllers/	Adding Bluetooth To Original SNES Controllers	Tom Nardi	[ "classic hacks", "Games", "Nintendo Hacks" ]	[ "atmega328p", "bluetooth", "controller", "hc-05", "i2c", "light pipe", "snes" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…s_feat.jpg?w=800	There’s a bunch of companies selling wireless Super Nintendo style controllers out there. You can go on Amazon and get any number of modern pads that at least kinda-sorta look like what came with Nintendo’s legendary 1990’s game console. They’ve got all kinds of bells and whistles, Bluetooth, USB-C, analog sticks, etc....	14	7	[ { "comment_id": "5256091", "author": "Tomi", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T08:11:11", "content": "> A custom ATMEGA328P-powered board polls the controller’s SPI serial shift register in much the same way the original SNES would have. It then takes those button states and sends them out over UART with a H...	1,760,374,188.398498
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/09/one-legged-jumping-robot-shows-that-control-is-everything/	One-Legged Jumping Robot Shows That Control Is Everything	Donald Papp	[ "Robots Hacks" ]	[ "inverted pendulum", "jumping", "motion capture", "motion control", "one-legged", "pogo", "robot", "robotics", "salto-1p", "slip", "uc berkeley" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	Robots that can jump have been seen before, but a robot that jumps all the time is a little different. Salto-1P is a one-legged jumping robot at UC Berkeley, and back in 2017 it demonstrated the ability to hop continuously with enough control to keep itself balanced. Since then it has been taught some new tricks; havin...	29	15	[ { "comment_id": "5248696", "author": "BrightBlueJim", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T05:43:15", "content": "Un Freaking Believable. Thanks for finding this.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5249080", "author": "RandyKC", "timestamp": "2018-10-...	1,760,374,188.464059
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/09/using-ai-to-pull-call-signs-from-sdr-processed-signals/	Using AI To Pull Call Signs From SDR-Processed Signals	Steven Dufresne	[ "Radio Hacks" ]	[ "amateur radio", "callsigns", "Google Speech", "sdr", "speech to text" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…als-fe.jpg?w=607	AI is currently popular, so [Chirs Lam] figured he’d stimulate some interest in amateur radio by using it to pull call signs from radio signals processed using SDR. As you’ll see, the AI did just okay so [Chris] augmented it with an algorithm invented for gene sequencing. His experiment was simple enough. He picked up ...	8	6	[ { "comment_id": "5247379", "author": "Alan", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T03:46:38", "content": "I thought this would just be about converting CW Morse to text – but it went in a different direction.How would this handle shortwave radio stations? In a foreign language?China still has a fair few shortwav...	1,760,374,188.64434
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/09/putting-the-sega-teradrive-into-overdrive/	Putting The Sega Teradrive Into Overdrive	Drew Littrell	[ "Games", "Retrocomputing" ]	[ "CPUs", "retro computing", "sega genesis", "sega mega drive" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…e1-01.jpeg?w=800	During the 80s and 90s it seemed like Japan got all the good stuff when it came to videogames. In the US there were consoles called the NES, the TurboGrafx-16, and the Genesis. While in Japan they had cooler names like: the Famicom, the PC Engine, and the Mega Drive. The latter was incorporated into a plethora of diffe...	25	10	[ { "comment_id": "5247204", "author": "Eric Chapin", "timestamp": "2018-10-10T01:42:49", "content": "Had to comment but I love it when someone slips Thundercats in unrelated subject like the video above", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5247278",...	1,760,374,188.530496
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/09/hacking-the-zh03b-laser-particle-sensor/	Hacking The ZH03B Laser Particle Sensor	Tom Nardi	[ "green hacks", "Laser Hacks", "Parts" ]	[ "CP2102", "environmental monitoring", "Mycodo", "particulates", "pollution", "sensor" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…b_feat.jpg?w=800	Laser particle detectors are a high-tech way for quantifying whats floating around in the air. With a fan, a laser, and a sensitive photodetector, they can measure smoke and other particulates in real-time. Surprisingly, they are also fairly cheap, going for less than $20 USD on some import sites. They just need a bit ...	23	10	[ { "comment_id": "5245781", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-09T20:09:04", "content": "I could see this being part of a weather station.BTW I believe Google cars do environmental measuring as well.https://www.foxnews.com/us/google-street-view-cars-to-be-outfitted-with-pollution-sensors-to-...	1,760,374,188.595884
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/09/a-better-charger-for-your-coin-cell-batteries/	A Better Charger For Your Coin Cell Batteries	Brian Benchoff	[ "The Hackaday Prize" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Prize", "coin cell", "coin cell battery", "rechargeable" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…980605.jpg?w=800	Rechargeable coin cell batteries are great for all your small projects. They look exactly like regular coin-cell batteries, but in a shocking turn of events you can recharge these little guys. They can put out a reasonable amount of current, and they’re small . Just what you need for your Arduino smart watch, or whatev...	12	5	[ { "comment_id": "5245170", "author": "mikeselectricstuff", "timestamp": "2018-10-09T18:40:46", "content": "Look for lir2032 tofind rechargeable coin cells.Note max recommended charge is 0.5C (35mA)Also be aware that the voltage can be as high as 4.2v,so could be bad news for 3.3v parts expecting a ...	1,760,374,189.153931
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/09/a-funny-thing-happened-on-ada-lovelace-day/	A Funny Thing Happened On Ada Lovelace Day…	Elliot Williams	[ "Hackaday Columns", "Science", "Slider" ]	[ "Ada Lovelace", "profiles in science", "science", "women in technology", "women of science" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…velace.jpg?w=800	Today is Ada Lovelace Day , a day to celebrate and encourage women in the fields of science and technology. The day is named after “Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace, born Byron”, or Lady Ada Lovelace for short. You can read up more on her life and contribution to computer science at Wikipedia, for instance. ...	43	17	[ { "comment_id": "5244687", "author": "RW ver 0.0.1", "timestamp": "2018-10-09T17:13:02", "content": "Time to mention Else MacGill, engineer, “Queen of the Hurricanes” …https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_MacGill", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": ...	1,760,374,189.315668
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/09/dirty-video-mixing-with-the-raspberry-pi-zero/	Dirty Video Mixing With The Raspberry Pi Zero	Tom Nardi	[ "Raspberry Pi", "Video Hacks" ]	[ "halloween decorations", "mixer", "pi zero", "raspberry pi", "special effects", "video" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…i_feat.jpg?w=800	Don’t get too excited now, we aren’t talking about that kind of dirty video. There’s plenty of other places on the Internet you can go to find that sort of thing. No, this video mixer is “dirty” because it combines two composite video streams into one garbled up mess that’s best viewed on an old CRT TV. Why, you may as...	32	7	[ { "comment_id": "5244584", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-09T16:38:00", "content": "“Old CRT”?Well back in the days when we walked uphill, both ways…through the snow. Something, something, getting off one’s lawn.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { ...	1,760,374,189.230772
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/09/google-discovers-google-servers-are-still-running/	Google Discovers Google+ Servers Are Still Running	Tom Nardi	[ "Current Events", "Featured", "google hacks", "News", "Security Hacks", "Slider" ]	[ "Gmail", "google", "privacy", "security", "social engineering", "social network" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…s_feat.png?w=800	Google is pulling the plug on their social network, Google+. Users still have the better part of a year to say their goodbyes, but if the fledgling social network was a ghost town before, news of its imminent shutdown isn’t likely to liven the place up. A quick check of the site as of this writing reveals many users ar...	70	20	[ { "comment_id": "5244314", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-09T14:08:00", "content": "” A quick check of the site as of this writing reveals many users are already posting their farewell messages, and while there’s some rallying behind petitions to keep the lights on, the majority realize...	1,760,374,189.108383
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/09/flying-human-head-lands-just-in-time-for-halloween/	Flying Human Head Lands Just In Time For Halloween	Tom Nardi	[ "drone hacks", "Holiday Hacks", "Kinect hacks" ]	[ "3d scan", "FPV", "halloween", "kinetic", "quadcopter" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…d_feat.jpg?w=800	We love the fall here at Hackaday. The nights are cooler, the leaves are changing, and our tip line starts lighting up with some of the craziest things we’ve ever seen. Something about terrifying children of all ages just really speaks to the hacker mindset. That sounds bad, but we’re sure there’s a positive message in...	15	10	[ { "comment_id": "5244169", "author": "Lord Nothing", "timestamp": "2018-10-09T11:46:13", "content": "id have done one of those flaming skull things from doom but thats just me.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5244187", "author": "Cree"...	1,760,374,188.99725
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/09/is-2018-finally-the-year-of-windows-on-the-robot/	Is 2018 Finally The Year Of Windows On The Robot?	Steven Dufresne	[ "News", "Robots Hacks" ]	[ "Robot Operating System", "ros", "turtlebot", "Windows 10" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…-10-fe.jpg?w=800	Microsoft is bringing ROS to Window 10. ROS stands for Robot Operating System, a software framework and large collection of libraries for developing robots which we recently wrote an introductory article about , It’s long been primarily supported under Linux and Mac OS X, and even then, best under Ubuntu. My own effort...	52	22	[ { "comment_id": "5244008", "author": "G Yates", "timestamp": "2018-10-09T08:08:24", "content": "I had to read this again to make sure that it wasn’t satire… I can just imagine the joy that will ensue when the system decides to do a mandatory update & reboot mid motion while waving a weight around on...	1,760,374,189.976569
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/another-drawbot-uses-a-pi-and-web-sockets/	Another Drawbot Uses A Pi And Web Sockets	Al Williams	[ "Raspberry Pi", "Robots Hacks" ]	[ "art", "drawbot", "drawing", "raspberry pi" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…awbot1.gif?w=800	There’s something about art. Cavemen drew on walls. People keep programming drawing robots. One we’ve seen recently is [Andy’s] Drawbot that uses WiFi and WebSockets to draw on just about any flat surface. What’s more, the Johnson County Library has a great write-up about how they built one and if you want a go at it, ...	9	5	[ { "comment_id": "5244015", "author": "Dave", "timestamp": "2018-10-09T08:17:25", "content": "Some close-up pictures of the produced art would have been nice.And also: Why use USB cables to connect te stepper motors?", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_i...	1,760,374,189.453117
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/programming-a-risc-v-softcore-with-ada/	Programming A RISC-V Softcore With Ada	Maya Posch	[ "contests", "FPGA", "Microcontrollers" ]	[ "ada", "fpga", "iCE40", "RISC-V" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	We were contacted by [morbo] to let us know about a project on the AdaCore blog that concerns programming a PicoRV32 RISC-V softcore with Ada . The softcore itself runs on a Lattice ICE40LP8K-based TinyFPGA-BX FPGA board, which we have covered in the past . The blog post describes how to use the Community edition of th...	9	5	[ { "comment_id": "5243686", "author": "Jerry", "timestamp": "2018-10-09T03:01:31", "content": "100% risky free..", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5243762", "author": "Steven Clark", "timestamp": "2018-10-09T03:21:41", "content": "Is th...	1,760,374,189.363586
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/06/the-carbon-fiber-construction-of-large-propellers/	The Carbon Fiber Construction Of Large Propellers	Brian Benchoff	[ "hardware" ]	[ "carbon", "carbon fiber", "composite", "drone", "propeller", "rotor" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…irfoil.png?w=800	Props for your little RC airplane or drone are effectively consumables. They’re made of plastic, they’re cheap, and you’re going to break a lot of them. When you start swinging something larger than 12 inches or so, things start getting expensive. If you’re building gigantic octocopters or big RC planes, those props st...	11	6	[ { "comment_id": "5231208", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-06T17:43:09", "content": "” live-edge ‘river’ coffee tables”Bet quite a few Googled that.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5232799", "author": "Canoe", "timestamp": "2...	1,760,374,189.407514
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/06/soft-robotic-jellyfish-get-pumped-in-the-atlantic/	Soft Robotic Jellyfish Get Pumped In The Atlantic	Brian Boucheron	[ "Robots Hacks" ]	[ "biomimicry", "biorobotics", "hydraulic muscles", "jellyfish", "robot", "silicone casting" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…ly-169.jpg?w=800	In a recent paper in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics , researchers at Florida Atlantic University describe the process of building and testing five free-swimming soft robotic jellyfish. The paper contains build details and data on how three different variables – tentacle stiffness, stroke frequency, and stroke amplitude –...	5	3	[ { "comment_id": "5230254", "author": "d-piddy", "timestamp": "2018-10-06T14:32:56", "content": "silicone rubber?", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5230486", "author": "Michael Black", "timestamp": "2018-10-06T15:10:15", "...	1,760,374,189.493425
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/06/smartphone-mod-goes-out-on-a-limb/	Smartphone Mod Goes Out On A Limb	Lewin Day	[ "Phone Hacks" ]	[ "3d printed", "cell phone", "cellphone", "limb", "phone", "smart phone" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…ain450.jpg?w=800	The modern smartphone has a variety of ways to interact with its user – the screen, the speakers, and of course, the vibration motor. But what if your phone could interact physically? It might be unnerving, but it could also be useful – and MobiLimb explores exactly this possibility. Yes, that’s right – it’s a finger f...	24	12	[ { "comment_id": "5229197", "author": "Marc Teysier", "timestamp": "2018-10-06T11:16:34", "content": "Hey, I will open-source everything in few days :-)", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5229240", "author": "Mike Massen", "timestamp": "2018...	1,760,374,189.719388
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/06/a-graphic-equaliser-the-analogue-way/	A Graphic Equaliser The Analogue Way	Jenny List	[ "digital audio hacks" ]	[ "eq", "graphic eq", "graphic equalizer" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	There was a time when any hi-fi worth its salt had a little row of sliders on its front panel, a graphic equalizer. On a hi-fi these arrays of variable gain notch filters were little more than a fancy version of a tone control, but in professional audio and PA systems they are used with many more bands to precisely equ...	14	7	[ { "comment_id": "5228189", "author": "arielCo", "timestamp": "2018-10-06T09:10:47", "content": "“Worth its salt”? Shouldn’t that term be reserved for humans? Because the idiom refers to _being paid_ for being competent at one’s job.Anyway, analog EQ seems like the logical choice when your source isn...	1,760,374,189.775807
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/perhaps-the-ultimate-raspberry-pi-case-your-pc/	Perhaps The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Case: Your PC	Al Williams	[ "3d Printer hacks", "Raspberry Pi" ]	[ "3d printing", "raspberry pi", "Raspberry Pi Case" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…/10/pi.png?w=800	One of the great joys of owning a 3D printer is being able to print custom cases for boards like the Raspberry Pi. What’s more, if you are using a desktop PC, you probably don’t have as many PCI cards in it as you used to. Everything’s moved to the motherboard. [Sneekystick] was using a Pi with a PC and decided the PC ...	31	12	[ { "comment_id": "5223097", "author": "Sjaak", "timestamp": "2018-10-06T05:31:07", "content": "Interesting design. Love to see more interaction with the pcNow someone has to make an iLO module (integrated light out made by HP, which can control a server by emulating keyboard and sending the screen ov...	1,760,374,189.846576
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/creating-kicad-parts-from-a-pdf-automagically/	Creating KiCad Parts From A PDF Automagically	Brian Benchoff	[ "Software Hacks" ]	[ "KiCAD", "library", "part creation", "pdf" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…config.png?w=800	For anyone out there who has ever struggled finding a part for Eagle or KiCad, there are some who would say you’re doing it wrong. You’re supposed to make your own parts if you can’t find them in the libraries you already have. This is really the only way; PCB design tools are tools , and so the story goes you’ll never...	20	8	[ { "comment_id": "5215470", "author": "WereCatf", "timestamp": "2018-10-06T02:04:54", "content": "Hum, this was already posted a month back —https://hackaday.com/2018/09/11/automagic-tool-makes-kicad-schematic-symbols-from-pdfs/", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { ...	1,760,374,190.03793
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/build-your-next-dancing-robot-from-empty-soda-bottles/	Build Your Next Dancing Robot From Empty Soda Bottles	Richard Baguley	[ "News" ]	[ "coke", "linear actuator", "recycling", "robots" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…e-dino.jpg?w=734	When you think about the materials for your next large dancing robot build, soda bottles might not be the first thing that springs to mind. But they could work, according to TrussFab , a project from a group of students at the Hasso Plattner Instituit. Their system uses empty coke bottles and 3D printed connectors to b...	2	2	[ { "comment_id": "5215115", "author": "Hirudinea", "timestamp": "2018-10-06T00:23:41", "content": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PWXAh8g3Cg", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5240591", "author": "Matt Cramer", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T12:...	1,760,374,189.882885
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/pocket-high-voltage-generator-becomes-great-test-tool/	Pocket High Voltage Generator Becomes Great Test Tool	Donald Papp	[ "LED Hacks", "Tool Hacks" ]	[ "aa battery", "AA cell", "high voltage", "high voltage generator", "LED filament", "neon", "nixie", "tool" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	[The LED Artist] often found a need for a relatively high voltage (100 to 200 Volt) but low current DC power supply, and it turns out that a small HV generator that uses a single AA cell only took about an hour to make. The device ended up being a pretty handy tool for testing things like LED filaments (which have a fo...	4	3	[ { "comment_id": "5243058", "author": "BrightBlueJim", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T23:30:58", "content": "“only took about an hour to make.” Uh, BS?? First of all, [The LED Artist] says “a couple of hours to put together”, which itself is doubtful. “Put together” can mean anything from “design and fa...	1,760,374,190.081906
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/knock-your-3d-printer-down-to-2d/	Knock Your 3D Printer Down To 2D	Tom Nardi	[ "3d Printer hacks", "Peripherals Hacks", "Tool Hacks" ]	[ "3d printer", "CR-10", "drawing bot", "inkscape", "pen", "plotter" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…d_feat.jpg?w=800	Hackers love 3D printers. In fact, they might love them a little too much. We hope know we aren’t be the only ones who couldn’t turn down a good deal on an overseas printer (or two). But when you’re not pumping out plastic boats and other PLA dust collectors, what are you supposed to do with them? Well if you’re like [...	15	8	[ { "comment_id": "5241960", "author": "Programmer Dude (@koppanyh)", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T20:31:09", "content": "I’ve done this, only much more ghetto and not as fancy :phttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXC73eWzP7E", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_...	1,760,374,190.301155
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/the-incredible-judges-of-the-hackaday-prize/	The Incredible Judges Of The Hackaday Prize	Brian Benchoff	[ "The Hackaday Prize" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Prize", "2018 Hackaday Superconference" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	The last challenge of The Hackaday Prize has just 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 as...	6	5	[ { "comment_id": "5241650", "author": "walter", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T18:50:17", "content": "Just wondering… I am the only one to be bothered with the relentless wave of superlatives for anything that hackaday does? be it the prize or “super”conference, it´s all marketing onanism. No wonder you ce...	1,760,374,190.134582
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/hack-my-house-running-raspberry-pi-without-an-sd-card/	Hack My House: Running Raspberry Pi Without An SD Card	Jonathan Bennett	[ "Hackaday Columns", "home hacks", "Original Art", "Raspberry Pi", "Skills", "Slider" ]	[ "Hack my House", "PXE", "raspberry pi" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…yhouse.jpg?w=800	Many of us have experienced the pain that is a Raspberry Pi with a corrupted SD card. I suspect the erase-on-write nature of flash memory is responsible for much of the problem. Regardless of the cause, one solution is to use PXE booting with the Raspberry Pi 3. That’s a fancy way to say we’ll be booting the Raspberry ...	62	16	[ { "comment_id": "5241307", "author": "CRImier", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T17:06:58", "content": "Thank you for the tutorial!> we’ll talk about [..] ZoneMinder next time.Please consider covering MotionEyeOS instead, it’s been nothing but a blessing so far – set it up on 5 RPIs in our hackerspace (both...	1,760,374,190.2423
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/everything-supercon-this-is-big/	Everything Supercon: This. Is. Big.	Mike Szczys	[ "cons", "Featured", "Slider" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Superconference", "badge", "speakers", "workshops" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.png?w=800	Come one, come all, this is the megapost about the Hackaday Superconference. Join us in Pasadena on November 2-4 for the hardware conference you cannot miss. Get your ticket quickly as they will sell out! These Are Your People You get excited about cool hardware. We do too. This not the case at most conferences. Come t...	2	1	[ { "comment_id": "5241220", "author": "Anders", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T16:34:51", "content": "From Sweden here. Looking forward to the conference! Very interesting speakers. The badge looks amazing. Can’t wait.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": ...	1,760,374,190.350944
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/worlds-smallest-wii-is-also-worlds-worst/	World’s Smallest Wii Is Also World’s Worst	Tom Nardi	[ "Games", "Nintendo Wii Hacks" ]	[ "3ds", "altoids tin", "nintendo", "portable", "wii" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…i_feat.jpg?w=800	As far as game consoles go, the Nintendo Wii was relatively small. Probably owing at least somewhat to the fact that it wasn’t a whole lot more than a slightly improved GameCube in a new case, but that’s another story entirely. So it’s not much of a surprise that people have modded Nintendo’s infamous money printing ma...	14	9	[ { "comment_id": "5241004", "author": "Drew Alden - Looking for Work! (@ReanimationXP)", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T15:18:34", "content": "“it must be done… for the memes.” -creatorI like this guy already.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5241458", ...	1,760,374,190.5792
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/will-drones-and-planes-be-treated-as-equals-by-faa/	Will Drones And Planes Be Treated As Equals By FAA?	Tom Nardi	[ "Current Events", "drone hacks", "Featured", "Original Art", "Slider" ]	[ "drone", "faa", "regulation", "UAS", "uav" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…10/faa.jpg?w=800	Soon, perhaps even by the time you read this, the rules for flying remote-controlled aircraft in the United States will be very different. The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) is pushing hard to repeal Section 336, which states that small remote-controlled aircraft as used for hobby and educational purposes aren’t unde...	87	26	[ { "comment_id": "5240795", "author": "Allex.S", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T14:22:10", "content": "Do you know the novel “A happy world” by the British writer Aldous Huxley?You are living in that world. And the “Big Brother” watches you.You can not hide.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "re...	1,760,374,190.872632
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/07/solar-power-for-chernobyls-second-generation-of-electricity/	Solar Power For Chernobyl’s Second Generation Of Electricity	Roger Cheng	[ "green hacks", "Solar Hacks" ]	[ "Chernobyl", "photovoltaic", "radiation", "radioactive", "radioactivity", "solar", "solar electricity", "solar energy", "solar panel", "solar panel cleaning", "solar panels" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…00x450.jpg?w=800	When featuring cool hacks repurposing one thing for something else, we prefer to focus on what we could get our hands on and replicate for ourselves. Not this one, though, as nobody else has the misfortune of being responsible for 2,000 square kilometers (772 square miles) of radioactive contaminated land like the gove...	40	11	[ { "comment_id": "5235496", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T14:17:03", "content": "“This is sure to invite some jokes in the comments section, but the idea has merit. ”The DMZ between the Korea’s.” No agriculture either, as plants and animals grown in the area should not be eaten.”Migh...	1,760,374,190.523325
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/07/robot-sorts-beads-by-color/	Robot Sorts Beads By Color	Al Williams	[ "Robots Hacks" ]	[ "beads", "opencv", "phidgets", "sort", "sorter", "sorting" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…0/sort.png?w=800	If you know anyone who does crafts, they probably have a drawer with a few million beads loose and mixed together. You’ll sort them out one day, right? Probably not. Unless, of course, you build a robot to do the dirty work for you. That’s what [Kalfalfa] did, using some Phidgets boards, a camera and Open CV. You can ...	29	10	[ { "comment_id": "5235274", "author": "BrightBlueJim", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T12:23:35", "content": "OMG. I mean, great project, but seeing that big bucket of beads, and watching it take ~3 seconds for each bead… it’s the heat death of the universe problem.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1,...	1,760,374,190.645123
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/07/banksys-barely-believable-batteries/	Banksy’s Barely Believable Batteries	Jenny List	[ "News", "Slider" ]	[ "art", "Banksy", "battery", "battery technology", "shredder" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	Nearly a decade ago my friend [Dru] gave me an unforgettable tour late at night of Stokes Croft, the inner suburb of Bristol known at the time for its counterculture and artistic scene. It’s a place dominated by building-sized graffiti and murals, and it has a particular association with the Bristolian street artist [B...	141	47	[ { "comment_id": "5234695", "author": "0xfred", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T08:07:05", "content": "I’m pretty sure that as the shredder started it went up in value – especially with all the press attention it’s received.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_...	1,760,374,191.162904
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/06/esp8266-clock-puts-time-in-a-jar/	ESP8266 Clock Puts Time In A Jar	Tom Nardi	[ "clock hacks", "LED Hacks" ]	[ "DS3231", "ESP8266", "glass jar", "MAX7219", "ntp", "ticker" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…r_feat.jpg?w=800	Ironically, with the wide availability of modular electronic components today, the hardest part of constructing your latest gadget might just end up being able to find a decent looking enclosure for it. Project boxes will only get you so far, and let’s be honest, they aren’t exactly the most attractive things in the wo...	13	8	[ { "comment_id": "5234592", "author": "Saabman", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T07:19:27", "content": "I like that – nice and simple", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5234649", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T07:43:55", "conten...	1,760,374,190.92918
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/06/bus-raider-allows-classic-micro-emulation-on-an-rc2014/	Bus Raider Allows Classic Micro Emulation On An RC2014	Jenny List	[ "classic hacks" ]	[ "retrocomputer", "trs-80", "z80", "ZX Spectrum" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	If you were lucky enough to own one of the crop of 1980s 8-bit computers, did you ever pause to consider how its graphics worked? Maybe the really expensive ones had dedicated CRT controller subsystems akin to the graphics cards you’d have found on a PC a few years later, but most of the affordable models would have st...	12	6	[ { "comment_id": "5234050", "author": "david smith", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T02:17:05", "content": "I’ve always wondered why in all this time someone hasn’t actually made an addon board for the rc2014 that uses one of the display/crt controller chips of yore to directly output a composite video one ...	1,760,374,190.976237
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/06/amplifier-controlled-motorized-display/	Amplifier Controlled Motorized Display	Tom Nardi	[ "classic hacks", "home entertainment hacks", "Microcontrollers" ]	[ "home audio", "LeoStick", "lift", "linear actuator", "relay", "trigger output" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…t_feat.jpg?w=800	It’s easy to get jaded by gadgets like the Chromecast or Sonos, which let the user control AV equipment remotely from a mobile device or computer. You can pick something to play from your phone and send it off to your speakers via the magic of Wi-Fi. But it’s still nice to have a display to look at for music visualizat...	4	3	[ { "comment_id": "5233529", "author": "RandyKC", "timestamp": "2018-10-06T23:44:05", "content": "No videos of this bad boy in action?", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5233553", "author": "FunkyMan", "timestamp": "2018-10-06T23:47:56", ...	1,760,374,191.204826
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/06/challenge-your-perception-of-reality-with-emotional-sunglasses/	Challenge Your Perception Of Reality With Emotional Sunglasses	Brian Benchoff	[ "The Hackaday Prize" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Prize", "sunglasses" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…674364.png?w=700	The Peril-Sensitive sunglasses of Hitchhiker’s Guide fame directly affect the user’s response to a stimulus, turning completely opaque in response to danger. That’s a great idea, but what if sunglasses could affect your emotions? That’s what the EmotiGlass project in this year’s Hackaday Prize is doing. It’s a concept ...	5	4	[ { "comment_id": "5234021", "author": "CMH62", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T02:03:19", "content": "I’m just not sure how I feel about this story … it made my heart skip a beat.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5234045", "author": "r4m0n", "tim...	1,760,374,191.248955
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/this-rocket-cookstove-is-hot-stuff/	This Rocket Cookstove Is Hot Stuff!	Jenny List	[ "cooking hacks", "green hacks" ]	[ "barbecue", "griddle", "rocket stove", "stove" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	If you search the web, you will learn that humans began to cook their food with fire a long time ago. Indeed, you might expect that there would be nothing new in the world of flame-based cookery. Fortunately [Bongodrummer] didn’t get that particular memo, because he’s created a rather unusual rocket stove griddle that...	32	4	[ { "comment_id": "5211498", "author": "Yarr", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T08:23:07", "content": "“…humans began to cook their food with fire for quite a while.”This sentence makes no sense. “…humans have been cooking their food with fire for quite a while.” would work. “…humans began to cook their food ...	1,760,374,191.734433
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/homebrew-linear-actuators-put-the-moves-on-this-motion-simulator/	Homebrew Linear Actuators Put The Moves On This Motion Simulator	Dan Maloney	[ "Misc Hacks" ]	[ "6dof", "ball screw", "BLDC", "flight simulator", "linear actuator", "motion simulator", "racing simulation", "Stewart platform", "virtual reality" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…034215.jpg?w=800	Breaking into the world of auto racing is easy. Step 1: Buy an expensive car. Step 2: Learn how to drive it without crashing. If you’re stuck at step 1, and things aren’t looking great for step 2 either, you might want to consider going with a virtual Porsche or Ferrari and spending your evenings driving virtual laps r...	32	5	[ { "comment_id": "5211087", "author": "Thanos", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T05:14:36", "content": "Sadly, he is not using Inverse kinematics math for the motion cues, and its moving a little rough. Its far from being ready for realistic simulation", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies":...	1,760,374,191.318183
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/we-got-your-sega-chiptunes-right-here/	We Got Your Sega Chiptunes Right Here	Brian Benchoff	[ "classic hacks" ]	[ "chiptune", "sega", "sega genesis", "Sega Megadrive" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…10x568.jpg?w=800	Chiptunes are cool, but when you get into it, you realize you’re mostly dealing with Commodore SID tunes, Atari POKEY tracks for the cool kids, bleeps and bloops from a Game Boy, and maybe some NES tracks thrown in for good measure. There’s another option out there – the sound chip in the Sega Genesis. This thing could...	14	8	[ { "comment_id": "5210932", "author": "Inverse Phase (@inversephase)", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T03:09:55", "content": "Brian, let me know if you need some POKEY, SID, Game Boy, or NES tracks with some heavy drums, I can help =]", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "...	1,760,374,191.38726
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/fully-3d-printed-and-metalized-horn-antennas-are-shiny-and-chrome/	Fully 3D Printed And Metalized Horn Antennas Are Shiny And Chrome	Brian Boucheron	[ "Radio Hacks", "Wireless Hacks" ]	[ "3d printed antenna", "3d printing", "antenna", "RF" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…rn-169.jpg?w=800	We’ve seen our share of 3D printed antennas before, but none as well documented and professionally tested as [Glenn]’s 3D printed and metalized horn antennas . It certainly helps that [Glenn] is the principal engineer at an antenna testing company, with access to an RF anechoic chamber and other test equipment. Horn an...	19	6	[ { "comment_id": "5210637", "author": "Immortan Joe", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T01:09:10", "content": "It will ride eternal on the highways of Valhalla", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5210684", "author": "RW ver 0.0.1", "timestamp": "2018-...	1,760,374,192.048775
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/tiny-plotter-is-made-of-strings-and-cardboard/	Tiny Plotter Is Made Of Strings And Cardboard	Tom Nardi	[ "cnc hacks", "Toy Hacks" ]	[ "cardboard", "drawing", "gears", "papercraft", "plotter", "welding rod" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…t_feat.jpg?w=800	If you’ve been hanging around Hackaday for any length of time, you’ve undoubtedly seen the work of [Niklas Roy]. A prolific maker of…everything, we’ve covered his projects for over a decade now. He’s one of an elite group of hackers who can say they’ve been around since Hackaday was still using black & white pictures. ...	14	9	[ { "comment_id": "5210176", "author": "McNugget", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T20:27:29", "content": "It’s…interesting. I won’t be trying this. Sorry.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5212388", "author": "Melkor", "timestamp": "2018-...	1,760,374,191.545964
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/senseation-shows-the-importance-of-good-physical-design/	SENSEation Shows The Importance Of Good Physical Design	Donald Papp	[ "The Hackaday Prize", "Wireless Hacks" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Prize", "adafruit", "arduino", "fona", "gsm", "mysql", "sensor", "sensor network", "sensor node", "sensors", "wireless", "xbee" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.png?w=767	Sensor network projects often focus primarily on electronic design elements, such as architecture and wireless transmission methods for sensors and gateways. Equally important, however, are physical and practical design elements such as installation, usability, and maintainability. The SENSEation project by [Mario Frei...	1	1	[ { "comment_id": "5211956", "author": "larry", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T10:52:58", "content": "loads of work done onhttp://www.mysensors.organdhttp://www.letscontrolit.comjust throwing it out there :)", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] } ]	1,760,374,191.582568
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/how-precise-is-that-part-know-your-gdt/	How Precise Is That Part? Know Your GD&T	Cameron Coward	[ "Engineering", "Featured", "Original Art", "Slider" ]	[ "drafting", "fabrication", "GD&T", "Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing", "machining", "manufacturing", "mechanical drawing", "mechanical engineering" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…acking.jpg?w=800	How does a design go from the computer screen to something you hold in your hand? Not being able to fully answer this question is a huge risk in manufacturing because . One of the important tools engineers use to ensure success is Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T). A good technical drawing is essential for ...	18	8	[ { "comment_id": "5209635", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T17:39:45", "content": "“GD&T is just a system for ensuring a part meets standards, and you’re the one who gets to decide what those standards are for your creations.”Working across large groups, generally someone else.", "...	1,760,374,194.363631
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/supercon-how-many-hardware-talks-can-be-packed-into-one-conference/	Supercon: How Many Hardware Talks Can Be Packed Into One Conference?	Mike Szczys	[ "cons", "Hackaday Columns" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Superconference", "talks", "workshops" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.png?w=800	How can we fit so many impressive talks onto two stages at the Hackaday Superconference ? We’ll be bursting at the seams in November as the hardware world gathers in Pasadena for this annual pilgrimage. This year’s Supercon will have more talks and workshops than ever before! This is the Ultimate Hardware Conference an...	8	4	[ { "comment_id": "5209842", "author": "walter", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T18:29:57", "content": "SUPERCON: HOW MUCH ARTICLES TALKING ABOUT IT CAN BE PACKED INTO ONE WEBSITE?", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5210055", "author": "Mike Szczy...	1,760,374,194.218485
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/malicious-component-found-on-server-motherboards-supplied-to-numerous-companies/	Malicious Component Found On Server Motherboards Supplied To Numerous Companies	Inderpreet Singh	[ "Current Events", "Featured", "News", "Security Hacks" ]	[ "baseboard management controller", "BMC", "hardware", "server" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atrued.jpg?w=800	This morning Bloomberg is reporting a bombshell for hardware security. Companies like Amazon and Apple have found a malicious chip on their server motherboards . These are not counterfeit chips. They are not part of the motherboard design. These were added by the factory at the time of manufacture. The chip was placed ...	270	50	[ { "comment_id": "5209274", "author": "locomoco", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T15:39:38", "content": "so… hackaday on the bandwagon? whats up with this clickbait/fakenews thing? there is no proof whatsoever besides also the companies which are allegedly affected completely deny it and say bloomberg is fu...	1,760,374,194.740912
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/linux-fu-keep-an-eye-on-that-file/	Linux Fu: Keep An Eye On That File	Al Williams	[ "Hackaday Columns", "Linux Hacks" ]	[]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…inuxfu.jpg?w=800	One of the things that’s nice about Linux or Unix compared to many other operating systems is there’s a good chance a Linux program will spew out informational messages to a log somewhere. Many commands even have a way to turn on more logs. I know that Windows has the event viewer, but many programs don’t have much to ...	38	14	[ { "comment_id": "5209109", "author": "RW", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T14:21:03", "content": "Thanks, very useful…User: I’d like to sip from the fountain of status knowledge.Linux: Sure thing Buddy! Turns on firehose", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_i...	1,760,374,193.974339
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/doom-battle-royale-mod-with-64-players-hurts-plenty/	Doom Battle Royale Mod With 64 Players Hurts Plenty	Drew Littrell	[ "Games", "Software Hacks" ]	[ "doom", "modding", "PC DOS", "software", "videogames" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…layers.png?w=800	Sixty-four players are dropped into a map, but there can be only one that emerges victorious…heard that before, right? Thanks to PC Game modder [Bambamalicious] there is yet another entrant into the rapidly growing videogame genre. The difference this time, however, is that their 64 player DooM Royale (with cheese) mod...	14	5	[ { "comment_id": "5208995", "author": "Jeremy S Cook", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T12:40:09", "content": "Looks like fun if you can get enough players in the arena!", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5209080", "author": "NiHaoMike", "timestamp"...	1,760,374,193.839875
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/04/easy-access-point-configuration-on-esp8266/	Easy Access Point Configuration On ESP8266	Tom Nardi	[ "Microcontrollers", "Software Development" ]	[ "access point", "ESP8266", "setup", "wi-fi", "wifimanager" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…p_feat.png?w=800	One of the biggest advantages of using the ESP8266 in your projects is how easy it is to get WiFi up and running. Just plug in the WiFi library, put the SSID and encryption key in your source code, and away you go. It authenticates with your network in seconds and you can get on with building your project. But things g...	19	10	[ { "comment_id": "5208689", "author": "Thorsten (@tvoneicken)", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T08:07:30", "content": "I’m trying to understand… This article is about someone putting up a web interface to configure the esp8266’s AP settings??? Really? Plenty of existing esp8266 projects have had that featur...	1,760,374,193.782798
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/websockets-embedded-with-the-esp8266/	WebSockets Embedded With The ESP8266	Al Williams	[ "Arduino Hacks", "Network Hacks", "Wireless Hacks" ]	[ "erb", "ESP8266", "microcontrollers", "websockets" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…/sock1.png?w=800	It used to be that Web browsing was simple. You asked a server for some text, which was duly sent, and then formatted by your browser. Now a web page is as likely to be a full-blown application that is reading mail, editing text, or lots of other things and may use WebSockets to create a back channel to the server. Tha...	15	13	[ { "comment_id": "5208465", "author": "Severe Tire Damage", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T05:22:22", "content": "Very cool, but C++ bites buffalo butts.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5208637", "author": "pixelk", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T06:...	1,760,374,193.891296
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/robot-solves-rubiks-cube-with-one-hand-tied-behind-its-back/	Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube With One Hand Tied Behind Its Back	Dan Maloney	[ "News", "Robots Hacks" ]	[ "anthropomorhic", "finger", "hand", "machine vision", "manipulator", "robotic rubik's cube solver" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…310702.png?w=800	For all those who have complained about Rubik’s Cube solving robots in the past by dismissing purpose-built rigs that hold the cube in a non-anthropomorphic manner: checkmate . The video below shows not only that a robot can solve the classic puzzle with mechanical hands, but it can also do it with just one of them – a...	3	2	[ { "comment_id": "5207911", "author": "BrightBlueJim", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T02:08:41", "content": "Yeah, that flick at the end really sells it!", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5208926", "author": "Pablo", "timestamp": "2018-10-04T11:3...	1,760,374,193.617794
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/ants-dirt-rain-and-the-commodore-64-that-wouldnt-quit/	Ants, Dirt, Rain, And The Commodore 64 That Wouldn’t Quit	Dan Maloney	[ "Retrocomputing" ]	[ "6502", "6526", "c64", "Commodore 64c", "deoxit", "environmental", "restoration", "retrocomputing" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…070511.png?w=800	Some electronics gear is built for the roughest conditions. With rugged steel cases, weatherproof gaskets, and cables passing through sealed glands, these machines are built to take the worst that Mother Nature can throw at them, shrugging off dust, mud, rain, and ice. Consumer-grade computers from the start of the hom...	34	10	[ { "comment_id": "5207768", "author": "Frank Davidson", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T23:37:11", "content": "You could easily nickel plate those ICs again.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5207806", "author": "Hirudinea", "timestamp": "2018-10-...	1,760,374,194.287901
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/new-part-day-the-fifty-cent-usb-chip/	New Part Day: The Fifty Cent USB Chip	Brian Benchoff	[ "Hackaday Columns", "Slider" ]	[ "CH330", "new chip day", "uart", "usb", "USB to UART" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…10/usb.png?w=800	If you want to plug a USB cable into your next project, you’ve got a problem. USB is not UART, and UART is what every microcontroller serial port wants. To add USB to your microcontroller project, you’ll need to add a support chip, probably from FTDI, although there are a multitude of almost-FTDI clones available from ...	144	42	[ { "comment_id": "5207560", "author": "steelman", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T20:03:09", "content": "Even betterhttps://lmddgtfy.net/?q=CH330", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5207584", "author": "Gravis", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T20...	1,760,374,194.167903
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/the-magic-flute-of-rat-mind-control-aims-to-mix-magic-and-science/	The Magic Flute Of Rat Mind Control Aims To Mix Magic And Science	Donald Papp	[ "Musical Hacks", "Raspberry Pi", "The Hackaday Prize" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Prize", "art", "Cayenne", "flute", "IoT", "live streaming", "magic", "operant conditioning", "raspberry pi", "rats", "recorder", "skinner box", "video", "wireless", "youtube" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.png?w=800	Well this is unusual. Behold the Magic Flute of Rat Mind Control , and as a project it is all about altering the response to the instrument, rather than being about hacking the musical instrument itself. It’s [Kurt White]’s entry to the Musical Instrument Challenge portion of The Hackaday Prize, and it’s as intriguing ...	16	9	[ { "comment_id": "5207484", "author": "chassis", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T18:34:54", "content": "Well, I didn’t know you could use worms to cool a Raspberry Pi.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5207498", "author": "Lion XL", "timestamp": "...	1,760,374,194.799461
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/icestorm-tools-roundup/	Icestorm Tools Roundup: Open Source FPGA Dev Guide	Al Williams	[ "Featured", "FPGA" ]	[ "arachne-pnr", "ice", "iCE40", "icestick", "icestorm", "lattice", "yosys" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…872329.png?w=800	We like the ICE40 FPGA from Lattice for two reasons: there are cheap development boards like the Icestick available for it and there are open source tools . We’ve based several tutorials on the Icestorm toolchain and it works quite well. However, the open source tools don’t always expose everything that you see from co...	7	3	[ { "comment_id": "5207490", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T18:42:35", "content": "One notable thing is how big that chip is compared to most CPUs.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5207500", "author": "Austin Appleby", ...	1,760,374,194.852025
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/supercon-on-the-rise-more-amazing-talks-revealed/	Supercon On The Rise: More Amazing Talks Revealed	Mike Szczys	[ "cons", "Hackaday Columns" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Superconference", "talks", "workshops" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.png?w=800	The drum beat of the Hackaday Superconference grows louder. Are you ready for it? We’re spending the week revealing the talks and on our third day we’re barely half-way through. Check out the incredible speakers who will be at Supercon to share tales of hardware creation. This is the Ultimate Hardware Conference and yo...	3	2	[ { "comment_id": "5207384", "author": "Seebach", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T16:38:48", "content": "really looking forward to the talks but i can’t attend. i’ll watch as many as are posted to the h.a.d. youtube channel.the audio was clear but incredibly low volume on the last few i watched there. is any...	1,760,374,194.902796
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/friday-hack-chat-is-there-life-on-mars/	Friday Hack Chat: Is There Life On Mars?	Brian Benchoff	[ "Hackaday Columns" ]	[ "chlorophyll", "chlorophyll more like boroophyll", "chlorphyll", "Hack Chat", "mars", "nasa" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…header.jpg?w=800	Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise a kid. In fact, it’s cold as hell. There’s no one there to raise them if you did, or is there? Is there life on Mars? That’s the question NASA has been trying to answer for the last forty years, and with the new Mars rover, we might get closer to an answer. For this week’s Hack Cha...	14	4	[ { "comment_id": "5207293", "author": "TheRegnirps.", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T15:30:28", "content": "Are there geese that speak English on Earth? You can’t prove that there are none. Same for life on Mars. And what to do if you find some? Invoke a Prime Directive you can’t enforce?", "parent_id"...	1,760,374,195.15368
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/retrotechtacular-disposing-of-sodium-1947-style/	Retrotechtacular: Disposing Of Sodium, 1947-Style	Dan Maloney	[ "chemistry hacks", "Retrotechtacular" ]	[ "alkali", "alkaline", "exothermic", "explosion", "metallic", "retrotechtacular", "sodium" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…sodium.jpg?w=800	A high school friend once related the story about how his father, a chemist for an environmental waste concern, disposed of a problematic quantity of metallic sodium by dumping it into one of the more polluted rivers in southern New England. Despite the fact that the local residents were used to seeing all manner of no...	55	14	[ { "comment_id": "5207208", "author": "Kiteman", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T14:10:23", "content": "An ex-colleague once “needed” to get rid of a lump the size of your fist – he threw it over the side of the Isle of Wight ferry.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "...	1,760,374,195.094846
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/help-for-high-frequency-hobbyists/	Help For High-Frequency Hobbyists	Brian McEvoy	[ "Radio Hacks" ]	[ "dead bug", "deadbug", "freq", "frequency", "high frequency", "homemade", "radio" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…eature.jpg?w=800	Dead-bug circuit building is not a pretty affair, but hey, function over form. We usually make them because we don’t have a copper circuit board available or the duty of making one at home is not worth the efforts and chemical stains. [Robert Melville and Alaina G. Levine] bring to light a compromise for high-frequency...	21	7	[ { "comment_id": "5214081", "author": "Ted", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T20:13:36", "content": "I would think a 74AC00 with its faster edge rates would work better in this application. Or even one of the new-fangled families like 74LVC00.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ ...	1,760,374,194.997048
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/this-is-your-last-chance-to-enter-the-hackaday-prize/	This Is Your Last Chance To Enter The Hackaday Prize	Brian Benchoff	[ "The Hackaday Prize" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Prize", "Hackaday Prize", "musical instrument", "Musical Instrument challenge" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	For the last seven months, we’ve been running the world’s greatest hardware competition. The Hackaday Prize is the Academy Awards of Open Hardware, and a competition where thousands of hardware hackers compete to build a better future. The results have already been phenomenal, but all good things must come to an end: w...	0	0	[]	1,760,374,194.937308
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/electromagnetic-field-2018-event-review/	Electromagnetic Field 2018: Event Review	Jenny List	[ "cons", "Featured" ]	[ "cons", "electromagnetic field", "Electromagnetic Field 2018" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	This summer’s Electromagnetic Field hacker camp in a field in western England gave many of the European side of our community their big fix of cool stuff for the year. Some lucky individuals can spend the year as perpetual travelers, landing in a new country every week or so for the latest in the global round of camps....	12	6	[ { "comment_id": "5213406", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T17:32:56", "content": "It’s not a complete electromagnetic field day unless someone’s set off a high-attitude nuke.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5213667", "author":...	1,760,374,195.218225
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/supercon-talks-that-inspire-you-to-take-on-something-new/	Supercon Talks That Inspire You To Take On Something New	Mike Szczys	[ "cons", "Hackaday Columns" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Superconference", "talks", "workshops" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.png?w=800	There’s wealth of activities at the Hackaday Superconference but we’ve saved a few for today’s announcement that will inspire you to take on something new and different. Check out the eight talks below that will push you to try the unexpected, to look at old things in a new way, and to propel your hardware adventures f...	4	3	[ { "comment_id": "5213148", "author": "kruug", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T16:22:25", "content": "Are these upcoming talks?", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5213245", "author": "Mike Szczys", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T16:53:25", ...	1,760,374,195.362785
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/3d-printed-sneakers-are-now-a-thing/	3D Printed Sneakers Are Now A Thing	Lewin Day	[ "3d Printer hacks" ]	[ "3d printer", "3d printing", "flexible filament", "Ninjaflex", "shoe", "shoes" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…ain450.jpg?w=800	Shoes may seem simple at face value, but are actually rather complex. To create a comfortable shoe that can handle a full day of wear without causing blisters, as well as deal with the stresses of running and jumping and so on, is quite difficult. Is it possible to create a shoe that can handle all that, using a 3D pri...	20	8	[ { "comment_id": "5212916", "author": "Thinkerer", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T15:10:08", "content": "Two words: Athlete’s foot.Molded plastic shoes existed briefly as the “latest thing” in the 1960s – I had a pair inflicted on me – and lack of ventilation meant they were dandy incubators of dermatophyt...	1,760,374,195.41865
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/easy-fpga-cpu-with-max1000/	Easy FPGA CPU With MAX1000	Al Williams	[ "FPGA", "Hackaday Columns" ]	[ "fpga", "max1000", "NIOS", "NIOS II", "SoC", "system on chip" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…01/max.png?w=800	Ok, we’ll admit it. We like FPGAs because it reminds us of wiring up a 100-in-1 kit when we were kids. But the truth is, many projects are just as well off to have a CPU. But there’s a real sweet spot when you have a CPU and an FPGA together. Intel (or Altera, if you prefer) has the NIOS II CPU core, but that’s hard to...	8	4	[ { "comment_id": "5212669", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T14:12:39", "content": "“Ok, we’ll admit it. We like FPGAs because it reminds us of wiring up a 100-in-1 kit when we were kids.” Hey! What about those who never were kids? Seriously, there’s still the disconnect between the phy...	1,760,374,195.471344
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/05/displaying-bitmaps-on-the-apple-ii/	Displaying Bitmaps On The Apple II	Lewin Day	[ "Retrocomputing" ]	[ "apple II", "assembly", "bitmap", "bmp" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…ain450.png?w=800	The Apple II was the popular darling that truly kicked off the ascention of the company that would later bring you darlings such as the iMac, iPod, and iPhone. The brainchild of the legendary Steve Wozniak, it was a low-cost home computer that made use of some interesting compromises to create video output with the bar...	34	10	[ { "comment_id": "5212111", "author": "Yarr", "timestamp": "2018-10-05T11:45:19", "content": "I guess this is cool, but I could swear Broderbund’s “DazzleDraw” accomplished exactly the same thing decades ago, being a double-hi-res paint program for the Apple II. Meaning 16-color 140×192, or monochrom...	1,760,374,195.648923
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/giant-robot-arm-uses-fluid-power-not-electronics/	Giant Robot Arm Uses Fluid Power, Not Electronics	Dan Maloney	[ "Robots Hacks" ]	[ "control", "feedback", "fluid power", "hydraulics", "mech suit", "Pneumatics", "robot overlords" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…477488.png?w=800	Fair warning that [Freerk Wieringa]’s videos documenting his giant non-electric robot build are long. We’ve only watched the first two episodes and the latest installment so far, all of which are posted after the break. Consider it an investment to watch a metalworking artist undertake an incredible build. The first vi...	7	6	[ { "comment_id": "5206215", "author": "Martin", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T11:31:15", "content": "You can find the described Master-Slave principle also in the control of at least some our muscles. There are muscle-spindles which contain stress-receptors and small muscle fibers. When this small fibers ...	1,760,374,195.513599
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/03/keep-em-flying-with-this-monster-diy-battery/	Keep ‘Em Flying With This Monster DIY Battery	Tom Nardi	[ "drone hacks", "Peripherals Hacks" ]	[ "18650", "battery charger", "battery pack", "drone", "quadcopter" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…t_feat.jpg?w=800	If you’ve spent an afternoon at the sticks of a remote-controlled aircraft, you’re probably well aware of the great limiter for such exploits: battery life. In the days when most RC aircraft were gas powered it was easy to cart along some extra fuel to keep the good times rolling, but now that everything except big sca...	21	8	[ { "comment_id": "5205301", "author": "Gregg Eshelman", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T08:55:45", "content": "battery powered battery charger", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5207022", "author": "Stefan Wimmer", "timestamp": "2018-10-0...	1,760,374,195.576112
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/a-new-tilt-on-rc-car-controllers/	A New Tilt On RC Car Controllers	Jonathan Bennett	[ "Arduino Hacks", "News" ]	[ "accelerometer", "arduino", "R/C car" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…roller.png?w=800	If you are a lover of all-things remote-conteolled, it’s likely that you know a thing or two about controllers. You’ll have one or two of the things, both the familiar two-joystick type and the pistol-grip variety. But had you ever considered that there m ight be another means to do it? [Andrei] over at ELECTRONOOBS ha...	4	4	[ { "comment_id": "5204542", "author": "Tony", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T07:24:49", "content": "It is a very nice project, even smaller and compact that some I made a couple years ago.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5206142", "author": "Clovis...	1,760,374,195.702536
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/artistic-collaboration-with-ai/	Artistic Collaboration With AI	Lewin Day	[ "classic hacks" ]	[ "ai", "art", "cyclegan", "GANs", "neural network", "neural networks" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…ain399.png?w=800	Ever since Google’s Deep Dream results were made public several years ago, there has been major interest in the application of AI and neural network technologies to artistic endeavors. [Helena Sarin] has been experimenting in just this field, exploring the possibilities of collaborating with the ghost in the machine. T...	10	2	[ { "comment_id": "5203457", "author": "???? ????", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T02:53:48", "content": "Nope, it isn’t “art”, it isn’t even good design or decoration. It is photoshop filter abuse taken to the next level. Some select pieces that have specific conceptual purposes may be considered art, but ...	1,760,374,195.981115
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/a-new-take-on-building-a-portable-n64/	A New Take On Building A Portable N64	Tom Nardi	[ "Games", "Nintendo Hacks", "Raspberry Pi" ]	[ "battery power", "BEC", "emulator", "nintendo 64", "raspberry pi" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…t_feat.jpg?w=800	When home consoles go mobile, whether in the form of modded original hardware or emulation, they usually take a pretty standard shape. A screen in the middle, with buttons either on the sides or below it. Basically the same layout Nintendo popularized with born-handheld systems such as the Game & Watch series and origi...	5	4	[ { "comment_id": "5197967", "author": "Downing", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T00:28:08", "content": "Dude, your workshop is legit! Awesome update! I remember the original well!", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5203803", "author": "TGT", "times...	1,760,374,195.882577
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/experimenting-with-extruded-elements/	Experimenting With Extruded Elements	Lewin Day	[ "3d Printer hacks" ]	[ "extruded elements", "extrusion" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…ain450.png?w=800	Conventional 3D printing and other additive manufacturing methods are highly effective at producing parts of irregular geometries that are difficult or impossible to create with other methods. However, there is a whole set of compromises that come with it – material uniformity, strength, and size are just some that com...	13	5	[ { "comment_id": "5203260", "author": "Fred", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T02:09:28", "content": "Taking the “E” example as shown in the image, the strength of each ‘leg’ is actually only a third of what it would be if it were a solid piece.Great for assembling things from smaller bits (eg: shipping cons...	1,760,374,195.9327
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/an-unmanned-ground-vehicle-compatable-with-an-arduino/	An Unmanned Ground Vehicle, Compatable With An Arduino	Brian Benchoff	[ "Robots Hacks", "The Hackaday Prize" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Prize", "arduino", "laser cut", "robot" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…148612.jpg?w=800	Building your own robot is something everyone should do, and [Ahmed] has already built a few robots designed to be driven around indoors. An indoor robot is easy, though: you have flat surfaces to roll around on, and the worst-case scenario you have a staircase to worry about. An outdoor robot is something else entirel...	12	6	[ { "comment_id": "5191443", "author": "walter", "timestamp": "2018-10-02T19:22:39", "content": "Compotable ? It´s a jam of Arduino ?", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5192113", "author": "elmesito", "timestamp": "2018-10-02T20:12:08", "...	1,760,374,196.032381
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/the-modular-connector-and-how-it-got-that-way/	The Modular Connector And How It Got That Way	Dan Maloney	[ "Engineering", "Hackaday Columns" ]	[ "att", "bell", "connector", "How It Got That Way", "jack", "phone", "plug", "RJ11", "rj45", "socket", "western electric" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…364380.jpg?w=799	They adorn the ends of Cat5 network patch cables and the flat satin cables that come with all-in-one printers that we generally either toss in the scrap bin or throw away altogether. The blocky rectangular plugs, molded of clear plastic and holding gold-plated contacts, are known broadly as modular connectors. They and...	70	14	[ { "comment_id": "5190601", "author": "Jonathan Sailer", "timestamp": "2018-10-02T17:45:42", "content": "first! yeah for me Attaching plugs isn’t really a technical problem, it is more to do with the use of the device. working in the IT field i noticed these plugs were very good at maintaining a co...	1,760,374,196.199933
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/eight-more-speakers-youll-see-at-supercon/	Eight More Speakers You’ll See At Supercon	Mike Szczys	[ "cons", "Hackaday Columns" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Superconference", "talks", "workshops" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.png?w=800	Level-up your hardware chops at the Hackaday Superconference . We’re delighted to share more of the amazing speakers who are headed to Pasadena in just a few weeks. Scroll down for eight incredible talks that will inform, inspire, and excite the engineering muse inside of you. This is the Ultimate Hardware Conference a...	1	1	[ { "comment_id": "5204690", "author": "Magpie", "timestamp": "2018-10-03T07:44:21", "content": "That topic from Erika Earl sounds really interesting. Our old systems are designed to have a predefined GND to Earth voltage offset (Earth potential sits in the middle between VCC and GND). This allows us ...	1,760,374,196.07701
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/free-arm-cores-for-xilinx-fpgas/	Free ARM Cores For Xilinx FPGAs	Jenny List	[ "FPGA", "Microcontrollers", "News" ]	[ "arm", "ARM core", "arm cortex", "xilinx" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	In a surprising move, ARM has made two Cortex-M cores available for FPGA development at no cost. In the over three decades since [Sophie Wilson] created the first ARM processor design for the Acorn Archimedes home computer, the architecture has been managed commercially such that it has become one of the most widely ad...	30	10	[ { "comment_id": "5190110", "author": "racerxdl", "timestamp": "2018-10-02T15:19:50", "content": "Shame on ARM, they should’ve done available as Verilog / VHDL free from any arch specs :/", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5203763", "autho...	1,760,374,196.266538
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/bitcoins-double-spending-flaw-was-hush-hush-during-rollout/	Bitcoin’s Double Spending Flaw Was Hush-Hush During Rollout	Pedro Umbelino	[ "Current Events", "Featured", "Original Art", "Slider", "Software Development" ]	[ "bitcoin", "bug", "double spending", "vulnerability" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.jpg?w=800	For a little while it was possible to spend Bitcoin twice. Think of it like a coin on a string, you put it into the vending machine to get a delicious snack, but if you pull the string quickly enough you could spend it again on some soda too. Except this coin is worth something like eighty-grand. On September 20, the f...	15	6	[ { "comment_id": "5189998", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-02T14:26:11", "content": "“It seems like the details would have been held back even longer if the vulnerability hadn’t been fully identified by a third-party. ”Reminds me of the handling of Spectre/Meltdown.", "parent_id": nu...	1,760,374,196.375677
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/pirates-dont-stand-a-chance-against-this-3-d-printed-pan-tilt-gimbal/	Pirates Don’t Stand A Chance Against This 3-D Printed Pan-Tilt Gimbal	Dan Maloney	[ "Misc Hacks" ]	[ "explosions", "gears", "gimbal", "lasers", "pan-tilt", "pirates" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…469544.png?w=800	Attention: No pirates maritime wealth redistribution agents were harmed in the making of the video below. Some projects are for work, some are for fun, and some, like this entirely 3D-printed camera pan-tilt gimbal , start out as work and then turn into fun. As professional digital FX artist [FlorianH] tells the tale, ...	11	9	[ { "comment_id": "5189599", "author": "Antron Argaiv", "timestamp": "2018-10-02T11:20:15", "content": "I’ll be true to the song I sing, and live and die a Pirate King!", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5189692", "author": "WonkoTheSaneUK", ...	1,760,374,196.313823
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/02/tiny-wifi-enabled-arm-mcu-for-tiny-projects/	Tiny WiFi-Enabled ARM MCU For Tiny Projects	Maya Posch	[ "ARM", "hardware", "Microcontrollers", "Slider" ]	[ "arm", "ESP8266", "IoT", "wifi" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.png?w=800	Ever since the ESP8266 WiFi-enabled microcontroller came on the scene, it seemed like suddenly everyone came up with WiFi-enabled projects. But the ESP8266 is not the only game in town! Reader [PuceBaboon] notified us of a new product released by Seeed Studios: the imaginatively called Air602 WiFi Development Board . T...	62	26	[ { "comment_id": "5189343", "author": "Mike Massen", "timestamp": "2018-10-02T08:22:11", "content": "Hmm, interesting device and on a small development form factor too. Great for travelling distractions to keep busy, nice post a d great prices for the capabilities, thanks", "parent_id": null, ...	1,760,374,197.045874
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/vinylvideo-is-literally-video-on-vinyl/	VinylVideo Is Literally Video On Vinyl	Drew Littrell	[ "Video Hacks" ]	[ "amplifier", "hacked gadgets", "video", "Vinyl Record" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…00x900.jpg?w=800	It’s often said that the music etched into a vinyl record takes on a transcendent quality that you simply can’t find in a digital recording, but does that still apply when you add motion picture? The collaboration of [Sengmüller and Diamant] sure think so, because they are offering a new experience for the turntable wi...	25	10	[ { "comment_id": "5189241", "author": "TL", "timestamp": "2018-10-02T05:53:16", "content": "This just seems like a 100 year step backwards in technology considering the RCA CED format could achieve full VHS / Laser disc video quality on vinyl before this was even invented.https://www.atlasobscura.com...	1,760,374,196.552174
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/new-part-day-the-risc-v-chip-with-built-in-neural-networks/	New Part Day: The RISC-V Chip With Built-In Neural Networks	Brian Benchoff	[ "Hackaday Columns", "hardware", "Slider" ]	[ "New Part Day", "RISC-V", "taobao" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…610009.jpg?w=800	After exploring a few random online shops one day, [David] (thanks for sending this in, by the way) ran across a very interesting chip. It’s a dual-core, RISC-V chip running at 400MHz. There’s 6 MB of SRAM on the CPU, and there’s 2MB for convolutional neural network acceleration. There is, apparently, WiFi on some vers...	87	24	[ { "comment_id": "5240305", "author": "Yangff", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T11:22:10", "content": "6+2 sram can all be used by riscv if you don’t need kpu (ai part)", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5243774", "author": "吴才泽", "timest...	1,760,374,196.674392
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/08/perfecting-the-solar-powered-web-server/	Perfecting The Solar Powered Web Server	Tom Nardi	[ "green hacks", "Linux Hacks", "Solar Hacks" ]	[ "charge controller", "dithering", "olimex", "olimexino", "photovoltaic", "server", "solar" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…v_feat.jpg?w=800	Running a server completely off solar power seems like it would be a relatively easy thing to do: throw up a couple of panels, tack on a charge controller and a beefy battery, and away you go. But the reality is somewhat different. Most of us hackers are operating on a relatively limited budget and probably don’t have ...	35	12	[ { "comment_id": "5239160", "author": "squeaks", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T08:15:24", "content": "I am not convinced the write up is very well researched and it probably shouldn’t be used as a reference for other projects trying to do low resource designed website.", "parent_id": null, "depth"...	1,760,374,196.751511
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/07/clock-monitors-deep-space-network-keeps-vigil-over-lost-mars-rover/	Clock Monitors Deep Space Network, Keeps Vigil Over Lost Mars Rover	Dan Maloney	[ "clock hacks" ]	[ "Deep Space Network", "DSN", "ESP32", "mars", "MER-B", "MRO", "Opportunity", "rover" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…_clock.jpg?w=800	It’s been a long, long time since we heard from Opportunity , the remarkable Mars rover that has shattered all expectations on endurance and productivity but has been silent since a planet-wide dust storm blotted out the Sun and left it starved for power. Right now, it’s perched on the edge of a crater on Mars, waiting...	7	5	[ { "comment_id": "5238667", "author": "geocrasher", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T06:51:25", "content": "So, you’re saying it’s an uphill battle? :PSeriously though, this is a cool project. That lettering could have come out better, but it’s a unique clock just the same :)", "parent_id": null, "de...	1,760,374,196.796479
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/07/the-bells-the-bells-one-battery-since-1840/	The Bells! The Bells! One Battery Since 1840	Al Williams	[ "classic hacks", "Slider" ]	[ "battery", "bells", "franklin bells", "high voltage", "history", "oxford bell", "piles", "zamboni pile" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…oxford.png?w=800	It is good advice to change batteries in your fire alarms at least once a year. Even our low-power LCD calculators need new batteries from time to time. But at the University of Oxford, they have an electric bell that has been ringing essentially non-stop on one set of batteries for about 178 years ! Is the energy cris...	18	8	[ { "comment_id": "5237430", "author": "Just a hint", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T02:15:32", "content": "A dry pile is somewhat of a misnomer. Since there is some moisture in the atmosphere, a hygroscopic substance such as honey may have been used in the electrolyte to keep the battery damp and the curr...	1,760,374,196.948521
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/07/hackaday-links-october-7-2018/	Hackaday Links: October 7, 2018	Brian Benchoff	[ "Hackaday Columns", "Hackaday links" ]	[ "MRRF", "parallax", "Parallax Propeller", "propeller", "Propeller 2", "Samm Sheperd", "sao", "Simple Add-On" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…banner.jpg?w=800	Ah, crap. We lost a good one, people. [Samm Sheperd] passed away last month . We’ve seen his stuff before, from a plane with a squirrel cage fan , to completely owning a bunch of engineering students by auditing a class . The obit is available as a Google Doc , and there’s a Samm Sheperd Memorial Fund for the Big Lake ...	14	6	[ { "comment_id": "5237239", "author": "iforster", "timestamp": "2018-10-08T01:28:22", "content": "Not every thing on the propeller 2 is OK. There’s a bug in the I/Q modulator for each pin. Primarily, this means no NTSC out, but it could of been used for other stuff. Discussion starts on page 3 of the...	1,760,374,197.096614
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/07/towards-open-biomedical-imaging/	Towards Open Biomedical Imaging	Brian Benchoff	[ "Medical Hacks", "The Hackaday Prize" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Prize", "biompedance spectroscopy", "medical imaging", "mri", "Tomography" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…389677.jpg?w=800	We live in a world where anyone can build a CT machine. Yes, anyone. It’s made of laser-cut plywood and it looks like a Stargate. Anyone can build an MRI machine. Of course, these machines aren’t really good enough for medical diagnosis, or good enough to image anything that’s alive for that matter. This project for th...	9	5	[ { "comment_id": "5236258", "author": "Mike Tatalovich", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T20:54:49", "content": "Video on this SOOON Yes!!!", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5236426", "author": "deskdrawersite", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T21:59:32",...	1,760,374,197.141326
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/07/reading-old-data-tapes-the-hard-way/	Reading Old Data Tapes, The Hard Way	Dan Maloney	[ "Retrocomputing" ]	[ "audio tape", "Frequency-shift keying", "FSK", "kansas city standard", "KCS" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…188124.png?w=800	Those who were around for the pre-floppy days of computer mass storage were likely to have made the mistake of slipping a cassette tape containing data into a stereo tape deck. Instead of hearing the expected Awesome Mix, the speakers gave off an annoying bleat, warbling between two discordant tones and no doubt spoili...	29	15	[ { "comment_id": "5235899", "author": "BillSF9c", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T18:04:52", "content": "COOL! ????", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5235988", "author": "Doc13", "timestamp": "2018-10-07T18:27:19", "content": "Looks like he wo...	1,760,374,197.207125
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/continuous-seltzer-deployment-system-solves-our-bubbly-water-sourcing-problems/	Continuous Seltzer Deployment System Solves Our Bubbly-Water Sourcing Problems	Brian Boucheron	[ "cooking hacks" ]	[ "beverage", "co2", "dispenser", "drinks", "seltzer", "water" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…r-16-9.jpg?w=800	Seltzer water – that bubbly, carbonated water that disappoints sugar-craving children everywhere – has experienced a steady rise in popularity over the past few years. This is perhaps partly fueled by the availability of countertop carbonators such as the SodaStream. Not satisfied with the tedious and pedestrian proces...	19	7	[ { "comment_id": "5188404", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-02T02:23:51", "content": "Health benefits of carbonated water.https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/carbonated-water-good-or-bad#section5", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "51886...	1,760,374,197.435958
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/add-some-edge-to-your-blades-with-blown-arc-plasma/	Add Some Edge To Your Blades With Blown-Arc Plasma	Dan Maloney	[ "Weapons Hacks" ]	[ "arc", "blown-arc plasma", "high voltage", "jacob's ladder", "lightsaber", "plasma" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…318129.png?w=800	If you polled science fiction fans on what piece of technology portrayed by the movies that they most desire, chances are pretty good that the lightsabers from the Star Wars franchise would be near the top of the list. There’s just something about having that much power in the palm of your hand and still needing to be ...	8	6	[ { "comment_id": "5187989", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-02T00:40:45", "content": "“If you polled science fiction fans on what piece of technology portrayed by the movies that they most desire, chances are pretty good that the lightsabers from the Star Wars franchise would be near the ...	1,760,374,197.254653
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/high-detail-3d-printing-with-an-airbrush-nozzle/	High Detail 3D Printing With An Airbrush Nozzle	Tom Nardi	[ "3d Printer hacks", "Parts", "Slider" ]	[ "adapter", "airbrush", "E3D", "hotend", "Nozzle" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…e_feat.jpg?w=800	On a fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printer, the nozzle size dictates how small a detail you can print. Put simply, you can’t print features smaller than your nozzle for the same reason you’d have trouble signing a check with a paint roller. If the detail is smaller than the diameter of your tool, you’re just going...	38	16	[ { "comment_id": "5187238", "author": "Duo", "timestamp": "2018-10-01T20:35:53", "content": "This is also one of the reasons that people wrap their heater block in an insulating material like cotton/cork/fiberglass/etc. Keeps the heat in and away from other parts, like the print and the extruder cool...	1,760,374,197.37923
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/the-leap-motion-makes-robots-bend-to-your-will/	The Leap Motion Makes Robots Bend To Your Will	Brian Benchoff	[ "Robots Hacks", "The Hackaday Prize" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Prize", "Hackaday Prize", "Human Computer Interface", "Human Computer Interface Challenge", "Leap motion", "robot arm" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…g_0899.jpg?w=800	We just wrapped up the Human Computer Interface challenge in this year’s Hackaday Prize, and this project is pushing boundaries we’ve hardly seen before. [ Giovanni Leal ] is using a Leap Motion controller to move a robotic arm around in space . The robot arm in question comes from Owi, and it is by every measure not a...	4	4	[ { "comment_id": "5186769", "author": "naikrovek", "timestamp": "2018-10-01T18:47:22", "content": "I made a couple of these at my employer right after the LeapMotion hardware came out. Everyone loved them.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [] }, { "comment_id": "5187217...	1,760,374,197.295831
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/cool-tools-the-pantorouter-turns-tracing-on-its-side/	Cool Tools: The Pantorouter Turns Tracing On Its Side	Kerry Scharfglass	[ "Hackaday Columns", "Tool Hacks" ]	[ "joinery", "Machine tool", "mortise and tenon", "pantograph", "plans", "router", "woodworking" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…683969.jpg?w=800	Not too long ago we wrote about a small CNC tool for automating certain parts of the woodworking process. At the time it seemed unusual in its intentionally limited scope but a few commenters mentioned it reminded them of another device, [Matthias]’s Pantorouter . It didn’t take much investigation to see that the comme...	6	4	[ { "comment_id": "5186450", "author": "S", "timestamp": "2018-10-01T17:40:09", "content": "Very happy to see my comment help inspire this post. I’ve been following Matthias and he never fails to be fun and informative.", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment...	1,760,374,197.75697
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/just-a-taste-of-the-talks-at-supercon/	Just A Taste Of The Talks At Supercon	Mike Szczys	[ "cons", "Hackaday Columns" ]	[ "2018 Hackaday Superconference", "talks", "workshops" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…atured.png?w=800	The Hackaday Superconference is taking on a life of its own. Speaker selection is done and invitations are on the way out. Below is a taste of the confirmed talks in store for you this November in Pasadena. This is the Ultimate Hardware Conference and you need to be there! We’ll continue to announce speakers and worksh...	6	3	[ { "comment_id": "5186223", "author": "Ostracus", "timestamp": "2018-10-01T16:45:08", "content": "“The Hackaday Superconference is taking on a life of its own. ”Who says one needs biology to create life? :-p", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5186...	1,760,374,197.708776
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/a-better-battery-arduino/	A Better Battery Arduino	Kerry Scharfglass	[ "Arduino Hacks", "hardware" ]	[ "aa battery", "aarduino", "arduino", "arm", "arm cortex m0", "Crowd Supply", "hoperf", "RFM69CW", "wireless", "Wireless sensor" ]	https://hackaday.com/wp-…987759.jpg?w=800	We’ve seen [Johan]’s AA-battery-sized Arduino/battery crossover before, but soon (we hope!) there will be a new version with more MIPS in the same unique form factor! The original Aarduino adhered to classic Arduino part choices and was designed to run as the third “cell” in a 3 cell battery holder to relay temperature...	5	3	[ { "comment_id": "5186526", "author": "ikozar56", "timestamp": "2018-10-01T18:02:25", "content": "Hey, just a typo: it’s not “Aarduino” but “Aaduino” ;)", "parent_id": null, "depth": 1, "replies": [ { "comment_id": "5209799", "author": "Mike", "timestamp": "2...	1,760,374,197.637677

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