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https://hackaday.com/2017/11/26/tindies-cyber-monday-deals/ | Tindie’s Cyber Monday Deals | Brian Benchoff | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"black friday",
"cyber monday",
"sale",
"Tindie"
] | The holiday season is upon us, so you know what that means. It’s time to consume! Whether that means large quantities of carbohydrates or consumer electronics, ’tis the season to buy, buy, buy.
Hundreds of Tindie items are on sale right now
, and everyone will find something unique, cutting edge, and sold by the people... | 9 | 5 | [
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"comment_id": "4220582",
"author": "Gunplumber",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T16:51:58",
"content": "…This is an ad.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4220599",
"author": "limpkin",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T17:06:01",
"cont... | 1,760,374,583.175753 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/26/finally-a-fidget-spinner-we-can-love/ | Finally, A Fidget Spinner We Can Love | Al Williams | [
"ATtiny Hacks",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"Fidget Spinner",
"persistance of vision",
"POV",
"spinner"
] | We’ve been frankly mystified at the popularity of fidget spinners. After all, we can flip an ink pen around just fine. However, [MakersBox] just sold us on what he calls
the geek spinner
. The fact that the spinner is actually a PCB and has parts on it, would probably have been cool enough. However, the spinner also ha... | 20 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "4220531",
"author": "Ken N",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T16:05:57",
"content": "Yup. This is the first fidget spinner that has ever interested me. Uh, though I dunno if a 60 yr old has any business getting one…This (or a mass-produced surface-mount version) would be a killer advertisin... | 1,760,374,583.576282 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/26/making-an-arduino-shield-pcb-with-fritzing/ | Making An Arduino Shield PCB With Fritzing | Donald Papp | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"how-to"
] | [
"arduino shield",
"breadboard",
"fritzing",
"pcb",
"schematic"
] | [Allan Schwartz] decided to document his experience
using Fritzing to design, fabricate, and test a custom Arduino shield PCB
, and his step-by-step documentation makes the workflow very clear. Anyone who is curious or has been looking for an opportunity to get started will find [Allan]’s process useful to follow. The ... | 15 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4220365",
"author": "dmalhar",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T13:37:26",
"content": "Friends don’t let friends use fritzing…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4220393",
"author": "iasgjo",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T14:0... | 1,760,374,583.630828 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/26/mission-impossible-infiltrating-furby/ | Mission Impossible: Infiltrating Furby | Al Williams | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"ble",
"bluetooth LE",
"bluetooth low energy",
"furby",
"furby connect",
"hasbro"
] | Long before things “went viral” there was always a few “must have” toys each year that were in high demand. Cabbage Patch Kids, Transformers, or Teddy Ruxpin would cause virtual hysteria in parents trying to score a toy for a holiday gift. In 1998, that toy was a Furby — a sort of talking robot pet. You can still buy F... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4220241",
"author": "benoliver999",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T09:58:35",
"content": "I think you killed their site…!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4221280",
"author": "drwho8 (@drwho8)",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T22:43:5... | 1,760,374,583.524154 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/25/is-your-wireless-charger-working/ | Is Your Wireless Charger Working? | Jenny List | [
"hardware"
] | [
"induction",
"wireless charging",
"wireless charging hack"
] | It’s that time of year at which the Christmas lights are coming out of storage, isn’t it. Some modern seasonal rituals: untangling half a mile of fairy lights, and replacing a pile of CR2032 cells in LED candles.
[RobBest] had a solution to the latter, owning a set of nifty rechargeable LED candles that came with their... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "4220193",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T07:37:09",
"content": "There was a Had article on musical greeting card noise maker being the source of the flickering in some of these things.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment... | 1,760,374,583.270081 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/25/continuity-tester-uses-the-attiny85s-comparator/ | Continuity Tester Uses The ATtiny85’s Comparator | Anool Mahidharia | [
"ATtiny Hacks"
] | [
"Analog Comparator",
"attiny",
"attiny85",
"continuity tester",
"CR927",
"oshpark",
"short circuit",
"tester"
] | There’s an inside joke among cyclists – the number of bikes you need is “n+1”, where “n” is your current number of bikes. The same probably also applies to the number of tools and equipment a hacker needs on their workbench. Enough is never enough. Although [David Johnson-Davies] has a couple of multimeters lying aroun... | 11 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "4220123",
"author": "Piecutter",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T04:06:49",
"content": "I like it. Think I could use a couple of these laying about! but I think I’ll replace the tinned copper probe with a sewing needle. Handy for those fine pitch ZIF connector pads or penetrating insulatio... | 1,760,374,583.394825 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/25/stepper-driver-module-with-swappable-heatsinks/ | Stepper Driver Module With Swappable Heatsinks | John Baichtal | [
"hardware"
] | [
"driver",
"electronics",
"heatsink",
"stepper motor"
] | At first glance, [Dean Gouramanis]’s
stepper driver module for 3D printers
looks like just another RAMPS-compatible stepper board. Except, what could that gold-plated copper peg sticking out of the PCB possibly be? That would be [Dean]’s
PowerPeg Thermal Management System
that he built and entered in the Hackaday Prize... | 12 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4218935",
"author": "Galane",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T01:06:03",
"content": "I want to see someone test various extruded aluminum heat sinks as they are stock. Then glass bead blast them everywhere except on the thermal contact surface and test again to see if the bead blasting mak... | 1,760,374,583.437332 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/25/asciicam-make-ascii-art-with-your-phone/ | AsciiCam: Make ASCII Art With Your Phone | Adam Fabio | [
"Cellphone Hacks"
] | [
"ansi",
"art",
"ASCII",
"retro",
"retrocomputing"
] | We admit it, we have a nostalgic soft spot for ASCII Art. Pictures made form characters, printed on an old-fashioned line printer. They’ve been a hacker standby since the 1960’s. Times have moved on though. These days we’re all carrying supercomputers in our pockets. Why not use them to create more great ASCII art? Th... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4218788",
"author": "Nathan McCorkle",
"timestamp": "2017-11-25T21:03:38",
"content": "I’ve had this installed for years…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4218892",
"author": "jack324",
"timestamp": "2017-11-26T... | 1,760,374,583.481205 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/25/a-callout-parts-for-an-iron-lung/ | A Callout: Parts For An Iron Lung | Lewin Day | [
"Medical Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"iron lung",
"polio"
] | Polio was a disease that devastated the United States in the 1950s, but with concerted efforts towards vaccination, is now on the verge of eradication. With the disease a distant memory for most, it’s easy to miss the fact that there are still those suffering the effects of the disease decades after its initial strike.... | 143 | 34 | [
{
"comment_id": "4218671",
"author": "12L14",
"timestamp": "2017-11-25T18:21:03",
"content": "“is now on the verge of eradication” – unfortunately not for long…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4218672",
"author": "packrat",
"timestamp": ... | 1,760,374,583.79781 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/25/low-end-parts-make-tesla-coil-with-a-high-end-look/ | Low-End Parts Make Tesla Coil With A High-End Look | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"bug zappper",
"coil",
"high voltage",
"spark gap",
"tesla coil",
"transformer",
"tuned circuit"
] | We all know the saying: cheap, fast, or good — pick any two. That rule seems to apply across the spectrum of hackerdom, from software projects to hardware builds. But
this DIY Tesla coil build
might just manage to deliver on all three.
Cheap? [Jay Bowles]’ Tesla coil is based on a handheld bug zapper that you can find ... | 23 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "4218567",
"author": "2ftg",
"timestamp": "2017-11-25T15:41:23",
"content": "Electrical tape and “MUSEUM QUALITY”?Hah. But still a neat build.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4218570",
"author": "Tomo",
"timestamp": "2017... | 1,760,374,583.234344 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/25/fixing-linux-audio-one-chipset-at-a-time/ | Fixing Linux Audio One Chipset At A Time | Christian Trapp | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"alsa",
"linux",
"sound card"
] | Linux audio may be confusing for the uninitiated. As a system that has evolved and spawned at least two independent branches over time it tends to produce results that surprise or irritate the user. On the other hand it is open source software and thus can be fixed if you know what you do.
Over at
reddit
[rener2] was a... | 34 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "4218473",
"author": "not_to_worry",
"timestamp": "2017-11-25T12:20:47",
"content": "i’ve had a Wolfson Audio Card attached to my Pi for over 2 years now. but 24-bit/192kHz lossless audio sounds the same as 16-bit/320kbit/44kHz compressed to me...and unrelatedly, whatever happened to... | 1,760,374,583.943473 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/25/tensorflow-tutorial-uses-python/ | Tensorflow Tutorial Uses Python | Al Williams | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"deep neural networks",
"machine learning",
"neural network",
"python",
"tensorflow"
] | Around the Hackaday secret bunker, we’ve been talking quite a bit about machine learning and neural networks. There’s been a lot of renewed interest in the topic recently because of the success of TensorFlow. If you are adept at Python and remember your high school algebra, you might enjoy [Oliver Holloway’s] tutorial ... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "4218490",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-11-25T13:11:58",
"content": "“Around the Hackaday secret bunker, we’ve been talking quite a bit about machine learning and neural networks. ”Maybe do an article on how ML and NN has improved your jobs around HaD.",
"parent_id": ... | 1,760,374,584.007711 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/24/junkyard-crossbow-aims-to-be-a-car-killer/ | Junkyard Crossbow Aims To Be A Car Killer | Dan Maloney | [
"Weapons Hacks"
] | [
"casting",
"composite",
"compound bow",
"crossbow",
"laminated",
"spring",
"trigger"
] | [James], aka [Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle], is not your typical Hackaday poster boy. Most of his builds have a “Junkyard Wars” vibe, and he’d clearly be a good man to have around in a zombie apocalypse. Especially if the undead start driving tanks around, for which purpose
his current anti-tank compound crossbow
is ap... | 25 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "4218294",
"author": "shnio",
"timestamp": "2017-11-25T07:13:34",
"content": "Fun fact: even toy crossbows are banned in Poland thanks to our amazing ‘weapons and ammunition act’ (‘ustawa o broni i amunicji’). This thing would easily get you 10 years in jail.",
"parent_id": null,... | 1,760,374,584.155425 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/24/students-build-electromagnetic-egg-drop-stand/ | Students Build Electromagnetic Egg Drop Stand | Al Williams | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"education",
"egg drop",
"electromagnet",
"school",
"student project",
"students",
"teaching channel"
] | The Egg Drop is a classic way to get students into engineering, fabrication, and experimentation. It’s a challenge to build a container to protect a raw egg from cracking when dropped from various heights.
Here’s a way to add some extra hardware to use when testing each entry. It’s an
electromagnetic drop stand
built b... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "4218148",
"author": "Nathan McCorkle",
"timestamp": "2017-11-25T03:12:09",
"content": "I watched the video, the second switch seems unused and unneeded.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4218158",
"author": "Piecutter",
... | 1,760,374,584.050023 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/24/this-diy-turntable-just-got-freaky-fresh/ | This DIY Turntable Just Got Freaky Fresh | Lauren Faris | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"Arduino Uno",
"diy",
"laser cut",
"lazy susan",
"lcd screen",
"stepper motor",
"turntable"
] | Photography turntables are made for both the precise and lazy. Whether you are concerned about the precision of consistent angles during a photo shoot or you simply do not want to stand there rotating a plate after every picture — yes, it does get old — a lazy susan style automatic photography turntable is the ticket.
... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "4218367",
"author": "sauliuslukse",
"timestamp": "2017-11-25T08:23:31",
"content": "Congratulations! Nice setup. If you would require better positioning, precision and zero backlash, feel free to try rotary stage used in setup to shoot 360* thermal images:http://kurokesu.com/main/20... | 1,760,374,584.199558 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/24/a-few-caps-for-a-faster-multimeter/ | A Few Caps For A Faster Multimeter | Inderpreet Singh | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [] | We just love it when someone takes apart a bench instrument. There is something about voiding a warranty and then making modifications that hits the spot and in
a series of simple modifications
, [Jack Zimmermann] dives into the guts if an Aneng AN8008.
The multimeter in question, the AN8008, is a low-cost true-RMS ins... | 19 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "4217962",
"author": "davedarko",
"timestamp": "2017-11-24T21:08:29",
"content": "ohh, score – have one of them :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4217992",
"author": "DNA",
"timestamp": "2017-11-24T21:35:48",
... | 1,760,374,584.101765 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/24/modder-puts-computer-inside-a-power-supply/ | Modder Puts Computer Inside A Power Supply | Anool Mahidharia | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"ATX case",
"atx power supply",
"atx psu",
"ATX-EPS",
"case modding",
"EVGA GTX 1060",
"Gaming Computer",
"gpu",
"graphics card",
"GTX 1060",
"Intel i5 6500T",
"mini-itx",
"modding",
"Small Form Factor"
] | When building a custom computer rig, most people put the SMPS power supply inside the computer case. [James] a.k.a [Aibohphobia] a.k.a [fearofpalindromes] turned it inside out, and built the
STX160.0 – a full-fledged gaming computer stuffed inside a ATX power supply enclosure
. While Small Form Factor (SFF) computers a... | 15 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "4217810",
"author": "Will Lyon",
"timestamp": "2017-11-24T18:52:32",
"content": "Not that impressive, he’s using low power CPU and SFF GPU. Try that with a 7900k and 1080ti.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4217867",
"a... | 1,760,374,584.634839 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/24/retrotechtacular-how-to-repair-a-steam-locomotive/ | Retrotechtacular: How To Repair A Steam Locomotive | Jenny List | [
"Retrotechtacular",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"locomotive",
"railroad",
"railway",
"steam locomotive"
] | Steam locomotives, as a technological product of the 19th century, are not what you would imagine as fragile machines. The engineering involved is not inconsequential, there is little about them that is in any way flimsy. They need to be made in this way, because the huge energy transfer required to move a typical trai... | 41 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "4217516",
"author": "mime",
"timestamp": "2017-11-24T15:50:59",
"content": "I love these videos – the tools seem much cruder than todays’ and there doesn’t seem to be as much health and safety. One guy standing underneath holding a glowing rivet inches from his face (no goggles) whi... | 1,760,374,584.579954 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/24/a-giant-magellan-telescope-needs-giant-mirrors/ | A Giant Magellan Telescope Needs Giant Mirrors | Gerrit Coetzee | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"giant",
"giant engineering",
"James",
"Magellan",
"mirror",
"mirror making",
"space",
"space is cool",
"telescope",
"telescope mirror",
"webb"
] | The Giant Magellan Telescope doesn’t seem so giant in the renderings, until you
see how the mirrors are made
.
The telescope will require seven total mirrors each 27 feet (8.4 meters) in diameter for a total combined diameter of 24.5 meters. Half of an Olympic size pool’s length. A little over four times the diameter o... | 47 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "4217334",
"author": "mac012345",
"timestamp": "2017-11-24T13:16:49",
"content": "micron? nope, it’s nanometer class precision required here!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4217616",
"author": "Paul",
"timestam... | 1,760,374,584.421788 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/24/racing-simulator-built-from-scrapheap-finds/ | Racing Simulator Built From Scrapheap Finds | Tom Nardi | [
"hardware",
"Virtual Reality",
"Xbox Hacks"
] | [
"junk",
"racing",
"salvaged",
"video games",
"xbox"
] | Paradise means something different for everyone, it could be a sitting by a fire on a rainy night or lying on a sun-kissed beach. But for us, and makers like [liltreat4you], it’s a well stocked scrap pile out behind the house. After buying a racing wheel and pedals for his Xbox, he took a trip out to his little slice o... | 13 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "4217054",
"author": "neotechni",
"timestamp": "2017-11-24T09:19:33",
"content": "I’m not into racing games, but damn that looks impressive. I’d love something like this for my Steel Battalion Behemoth controller.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,374,584.68293 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/23/precision-voltage-reference-source/ | Precision Voltage Reference Source | Anool Mahidharia | [
"hardware"
] | [
"AD584",
"calibrator",
"TO-99",
"voltage reference"
] | [barbouri] found a few old (vintage?) parts from the early ’80’s while rummaging through his parts bin, and quickly spun out a small PCB to build
a 10.000 V reference using these old ICs
. Throwing together a small number of parts, he was able to build a source which might be good enough to use as a reference for anoth... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4217070",
"author": "problemchild68",
"timestamp": "2017-11-24T09:28:44",
"content": "I have a few of these and the L versions are indeed much more stable if you can find them but one thing to note here is that if you are been such a volt nut the REF is rarely bang on 2.5/5/7.5/10 s... | 1,760,374,584.732842 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/23/bringing-matlab-to-a-vacuum-near-you/ | Bringing MATLAB To A Vacuum Near You | Al Williams | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"irobot",
"irobot create",
"irobot create 2",
"matlab",
"raspberry pi",
"Raspberry pi camera",
"robot",
"roomba",
"vac"
] | The essence of hacking is modifying something to do a different function. Many of us learned as kids, though, that turning the family TV into an oscilloscope often got you into trouble.
These days, TVs are flat and don’t have high voltage inside, but there’s always the family robot, often known as a Roomba. Besides pro... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4216664",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2017-11-24T03:16:21",
"content": "Physics experiments in a vacuum with Matlab. Cool.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4216919",
"author": "HAT",
"timestamp": "2017-... | 1,760,374,584.778149 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/23/dumb-box-make-it-really-smart/ | Dumb Box? Make It Really Smart! | Donald Papp | [
"how-to",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"drop-in",
"humidity",
"hx711",
"IoT",
"Load sensor",
"really smart box",
"Really Useful Box",
"sigfox",
"Smart box",
"temperature",
"weight",
"wireless"
] | [Stephen Harrison]’s
Really Smart Box
is a great concept, it’s simultaneously a simple idea while at the same time being super clever. The Really Smart Box isn’t really a box; it’s a drop-in platform that can be made any size, intended to turn any dumb storage box into one that helps manage and track levels and usage o... | 6 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "4216554",
"author": "silver",
"timestamp": "2017-11-24T01:29:48",
"content": "son of a b—….. I just spent the last two days building this with postal scales and a raspi zero w for measuring the weight of kegs in a kegerator.So how does this one handle zeroing? Mine zeros on boot, wh... | 1,760,374,584.819677 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/23/swarm-of-servos-plays-this-robotic-glockenspiel/ | Swarm Of Servos Plays This Robotic Glockenspiel | Dan Maloney | [
"Musical Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"glockenspiel",
"midi",
"servo"
] | It’s the happiest sounding instrument in the marching band, and it’s got the best name to boot. It’s the glockenspiel, and if
this robotic glockenspiel
has anything to say about it, the days of human glockenspielists are numbered.
In its present prototype form, [Averton Engineering]’s “Spielatron” looks a little like s... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "4216276",
"author": "bty",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T21:23:11",
"content": "it’s pretty much stuck on playing slow rhythm with the hardcoded delays; next up delay the incoming midi stream and do some planning for the strokes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []... | 1,760,374,584.917806 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/23/glue-gun-teardown-reveals-microcontroller-mystery/ | Glue Gun Teardown Reveals Microcontroller Mystery | John Baichtal | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"ATtiny24",
"glue gun",
"teardown"
] | [electrobob] got a Bosch GluePen cordless hot glue gun. The thing has some nice features — it heats up in fifteen seconds, and charges via USB, and is generally handy for those small and quick jobs that hot glue guns were made to perform. At first glance it seems like a huge improvement over the plug-in varieties, whic... | 64 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "4216020",
"author": "awjlogan",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T18:09:33",
"content": "Attiny24 has a built in temperature sensor, probably that’s being used.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4216024",
"author": "awjlogan",
... | 1,760,374,585.018009 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/23/hackaday-store-discounts-to-satiate-the-shopping-urge/ | Hackaday Store Discounts To Satiate The Shopping Urge | Mike Szczys | [
"Hackaday Store"
] | [
"black friday",
"cyber monday",
"sale"
] | Score
everything in the Hackaday store for 50% off
right now.
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, a time when people migrate back home to spend time with families, fill themselves with Turkey and cranberry sauce, and are inevitably dragged out to the big box stores in search for that one great deal to satisfy t... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4215900",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.1",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T16:47:00",
"content": "Whoa, must be some subtle subliminal stuff going on, can’t tell what the article is about but feel the urge to buy things.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"c... | 1,760,374,584.875854 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/23/building-a-skyrim-quest-marker/ | Building A Skyrim Quest Marker | John Baichtal | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"Adafruit trinket",
"costume",
"halloween",
"prop",
"skyrim",
"tip120"
] | I’m working on a Skyrim quest marker. You probably know what this is even if you never have played the game. When a character or location in the game relates to a quest, an arrow floats over it so you don’t miss it. If it’s a book, the book has the arrow floating over it. If it’s a person, it floats over that character... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4215787",
"author": "iuogean",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T15:13:15",
"content": "“When a character or location in the game relates to a quest, an arrow floats over it so you don’t miss it.”Not in Gothic 2: NoTR. And this is one of the reasons why it’s so much fun to play.",
"paren... | 1,760,374,585.063071 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/23/smarter-phones-in-your-hacks-with-tensorflow-lite/ | Smarter Phones In Your Hacks With TensorFlow Lite | Steven Dufresne | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"dsp",
"gpu",
"machine learning",
"neural network",
"tensorflow"
] | One way to run a compute-intensive neural network on a hack has been to put a decent laptop onboard. But wouldn’t it be great if you could go smaller and cheaper by using a phone instead? If your neural network was written using Google’s TensorFlow framework then you’ve had the option of using TensorFlow Mobile, but it... | 11 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "4215543",
"author": "jcwren",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T12:06:30",
"content": "Assuming the I/O bandwidth is fast enough, there’s always the Google IOIO for… I/O.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4215629",
"author": "Red... | 1,760,374,585.349354 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/23/learn-about-blockchains-by-building-one/ | Learn About Blockchains By Building One | Jenny List | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"blockchain",
"example code",
"python"
] | What do we curious Hackaday scribes do when we want to learn about something? First port of call: search the web.
When that something is blockchain technology and we’re looking for an explanation that expands our cursory overview into a more fundamental understanding of the basic principles, there is a problem. It seem... | 27 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "4215399",
"author": "Siddharth Singh",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T09:45:33",
"content": "Genesis CommentA50912250843FA904EC97722697B38C6EE3D552578F4A8817596E72FB1C2A29B",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4215832",
"author":... | 1,760,374,585.410267 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/functioning-technic-slj900-bridge-builder/ | Functioning Technic SLJ900 Bridge Builder | John Baichtal | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"bridge",
"construction",
"lego",
"lego technic"
] | There is definitely a passion for detail and accuracy among LEGO builders who re-create recognizable real-world elements such as specific car models and famous buildings. However, Technic builders take it to a level the regular AFOLs cannot: Not only must their model look like the original, it has to function the same ... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4215188",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T06:02:45",
"content": "Beats the Lincoln Logs of our day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4215246",
"author": "Galane",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T07:26:32",
"co... | 1,760,374,585.296949 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/teardown-of-a-cheap-glue-gun/ | Teardown Of A Cheap Glue Gun | Jenny List | [
"Teardown"
] | [
"glue gun",
"PTC",
"teardown"
] | A hot glue gun is one of those standard tools of the hardware hacker’s bench, called upon to provide adhesion between an astonishing range of materials, and to provide a handy filler and strain relief in the form of blobs of polymer glue. We’ve all got one, but how many of us have taken a look inside it?
[Andrew Lorime... | 25 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "4215033",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T03:18:10",
"content": "No it isn’t!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4215339",
"author": "Alphatek",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T08:16:45",
"content... | 1,760,374,585.708603 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/digital-panel-meter-tear-down/ | Digital Panel Meter Tear Down | Al Williams | [
"Teardown"
] | [
"ac volt meter",
"ac voltage meter",
"digital panel meter",
"meter"
] | [Big Clive] had some 22mm digital AC voltmeters, made to put in a panel. There was a time when this would have been a significant pain, since it required you to make a large square hole. Of course, in a world of CNC and 3D printers that isn’t as big a deal as it used to be, but the ones [Clive] has are nice because hav... | 18 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "4214957",
"author": "DainBramage",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T02:12:33",
"content": "Read the rest of the sentence…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4214977",
"author": "Internet",
"timestamp": "2017-11-23T02:21:5... | 1,760,374,585.505221 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/trinket-chills-your-drinks/ | Trinket Chills Your Drinks | Rich Hawkes | [
"hardware"
] | [
"Adafruit trinket",
"arm cortex m0",
"CurcuitPython",
"Drinkibot",
"peltier cooler",
"peristaltic pump",
"python",
"trinket m0"
] | Who wants warm drinks? Well, coffee drinkers, we guess. Other than them, who wants warm drinks? Tea drinkers, sure. How about room temperature drinks? No one, that’s who. It’s silly to buy a refrigerator to cool down a single drink, so what option are you left with? Ice cubes? They’ll dilute your drink. Ice packs and a... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4214472",
"author": "Art Mezins",
"timestamp": "2017-11-22T21:07:52",
"content": "There are “frozen” whiskey stones or stainless steel cubes which don’t dilute drinks, but I admit Peltier’s have geek sheek.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"c... | 1,760,374,585.454137 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/a-passion-for-the-best-is-in-mechanical-keyboards/ | A Passion For The Best Is In Mechanical Keyboards | Brian Benchoff | [
"cons",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Superconference",
"Ariane Nazemi",
"Dark Matter Keyboard",
"keyboard",
"mechanical keyboard"
] | There is an entire subculture of people fascinated by computer keyboards. While the majority of the population is content with whatever keyboard came with their computer or is supplied by their employer — usually the bottom basement squishy membrane keyboards — there are a small group of keyboard enthusiasts diving int... | 21 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "4214417",
"author": "Andrew Samuel Wells",
"timestamp": "2017-11-22T20:30:44",
"content": "This layout reminds me a lot of the Atreus keyboard. I built one earlier this year, and while I enjoyed the construction phase of the project, as well as my conversations with metalliqaz over ... | 1,760,374,585.565413 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/radio-apocalypse-the-gwen-system/ | Radio Apocalypse: The GWEN System | Dan Maloney | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Original Art",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"emp",
"ground wave",
"ionosphere",
"LF",
"low frequency",
"network",
"propagation"
] | Recent developments on the world political stage have brought the destructive potential of electromagnetic pulses (EMP) to the fore, and people seem to have internalized the threat posed by a single thermonuclear weapon. It’s common knowledge that one bomb deployed at a high enough altitude can cause a rapid and powerf... | 42 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "4214236",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-11-22T18:15:33",
"content": "“By that time, GWEN’s technology was certainly looking a little long in the tooth anyway, with the rise of the Internet and the proliferation of satellite communications.”Fiber optics between key facilit... | 1,760,374,585.789991 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/fail-of-the-week-cheap-chips-cause-chaos/ | Fail Of The Week: Cheap Chips Cause Chaos | Dan Maloney | [
"Fail of the Week"
] | [
"ad633",
"AliExpress",
"Bangood",
"counterfeit parts",
"ebay",
"fake",
"false",
"faux",
"parts"
] | We all know the old saw: if it’s too good to be true, it probably is. But nowhere does this rule seem to break down as regularly as when we order parts. Banggood, AliExpress, and eBay are flooded with parts ready to be magically transported across the globe to our doorsteps, all at prices that seem to defy the laws of ... | 87 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "4214130",
"author": "Rick Sanchez (@rock_on_yo)",
"timestamp": "2017-11-22T16:36:16",
"content": "I’ve had a lot of fake LM317 regulators that didn’t behave correctly and then went dead short at 24V. Serials were all CCOXC with fairly legit looking ST marks but they are dangerous co... | 1,760,374,585.912239 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/skin-effect-in-the-game/ | Skin (Effect) In The Game | Al Williams | [
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"ac",
"hackaday 101",
"radio",
"RF",
"skin effect"
] | We love to pretend like our components are perfect. Resistors don’t have capacitance or inductance. Wires conduct electricity perfectly. The reality, though, is far from this. It is easy to realize that wire will have some small resistance. For the kind of wire lengths you usually encounter, ignoring it is acceptable. ... | 70 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "4214059",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.1",
"timestamp": "2017-11-22T15:20:51",
"content": "Hey I wonder if anyone has thought of that, we’re not really in an expanding universe, we’re the atoms near the center of a giant wire, maybe it’s a toroid, looped back, randomly vortexing across not... | 1,760,374,586.019229 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/hacking-a-k40-laser-cutter/ | Hacking A K40 Laser Cutter | Jenny List | [
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"K40",
"laser",
"laser cutter"
] | The distinctive blue-and-white enclosure of the Chinese-made K40 laser cutter has become a common sight in workshops and hackerspaces, as they represent the cheapest route to a working cutter that can be found. It’s fair to say though that they are not a particularly good or safe machine when shipped, and [Archie Roque... | 26 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "4213886",
"author": "Arthur Wolf",
"timestamp": "2017-11-22T12:05:08",
"content": "If you like this, you’ll very likely want to take a look at the other guides here : http://smoothieware.org/laser-cutter-guide#machine-specific-guides , several of which are for K40s",
"parent_id"... | 1,760,374,586.076577 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/roll-your-own-rotary-tool/ | Roll Your Own Rotary Tool | Kristina Panos | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"18650",
"collet",
"diy tool",
"dremel",
"rotary tool"
] | Rotary tools are great little handheld powerhouses that fill the void between manual tools and larger shop machines. They’re also kind of expensive for what they are, which is essentially a power circuit, a switch, and a high-RPM motor with a tool coupling on the shaft. If your tooling needs are few and you have the re... | 37 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "4213779",
"author": "Daniel",
"timestamp": "2017-11-22T09:26:55",
"content": "okaz, let’s see…no low discharge / overcharging protection on the LiPo batteries, Motor wired with wrong polarity (doesn’t really matter), no bearing to take the load of the motor…yes, I can see why this i... | 1,760,374,586.188787 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/reanimating-boney-the-robot-dog/ | Reanimating Boney The Robot Dog | John Baichtal | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"dog",
"robot",
"servo",
"skeleton"
] | [Divconstructors] cashed in after Halloween and picked up a skeleton dog prop from the Home Depot, for the simple and logical purpose of
turning it into a robot
.
The first step was to cut apart the various body parts, followed by adding bearings to the joints and bolting in a metal chassis fabricated from 1/8″ aluminu... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4213707",
"author": "Vinalon",
"timestamp": "2017-11-22T07:33:36",
"content": "Hm. Buying random props to turn into nightmare robots. There’s an idea.Well, I’m off to the goodwill.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4214110",
... | 1,760,374,586.122159 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/a-look-at-chinese-value-engineering/ | A Look At Chinese Value Engineering | Anool Mahidharia | [
"Teardown"
] | [
"Christmas Light",
"COB",
"led",
"LED string",
"scr"
] | Seventy cents doesn’t buy you a lot these days. Maybe some sweets or candies at most. How about a string of LEDs that you can use to decorate your home during the festive season? [Amaldev] was curious to know what was, or wasn’t, inside these blinky LED strings which made them so cheap. He’s done a
Christmas LED Light ... | 63 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "4213572",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.1",
"timestamp": "2017-11-22T03:03:25",
"content": "Ummm yeah, I get about $3 worth of parts, or at least at what us peons would have to pay per discrete.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4213581",... | 1,760,374,586.331279 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/bolt-together-belt-grinder-for-the-no-weld-shop/ | Bolt-Together Belt Grinder For The No-Weld Shop | Dan Maloney | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"abrasive",
"belt",
"grinder",
"grinding",
"Machine tool",
"metal shop",
"metalworking"
] | Belt grinding offers a lot of advantages for the metalworker, and since belt grinders are pretty simple machines, shop-built tools are not an uncommon project.
A bolt-together belt grinder
makes this tool even more accessible to the home gamer.
With no access to a welder but with a basic milling machine and an ample sc... | 19 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "4213477",
"author": "Hut",
"timestamp": "2017-11-22T00:32:00",
"content": "Great page on DIY belt grinders:https://www.cnccookbook.com/knife-making-belt-grinders-2×72/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4213503",
"author": "RW ... | 1,760,374,586.237456 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/flip-dot-display-brought-out-of-retirement-by-new-drivers/ | Flip-Dot Display Brought Out Of Retirement By New Drivers | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks",
"Teardown"
] | [
"display",
"electromagnet",
"electromechanical",
"flip dot display",
"matrix",
"pixel",
"rs-485",
"sign"
] | LED matrix displays and flat-screen monitors have largely supplanted old-school electromechanical models for public signage. We think that’s a shame, but it’s also a boon for the tinkerer, as old displays can be had for a song these days in the online markets.
Such was the case for [John Whittington] and his flip-dot d... | 16 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "4213341",
"author": "Yann Guidon / YGDES",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T21:04:41",
"content": "Just for the record :https://hackaday.io/project/18541-dot-flippers:-)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4213378",
"author": "Olsen",
... | 1,760,374,586.377067 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/anouk-wipprecht-robotic-dresses-and-human-interfaces/ | Anouk Wipprecht: Robotic Dresses And Human Interfaces | Elliot Williams | [
"cons",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Superconference",
"anouk wipprecht",
"clothing",
"cocktail",
"dress",
"eeg",
"talk",
"wearable"
] | Anouk Wipprecht
‘s hackerly interests are hard to summarize, so bear with us. She works primarily on technological dresses, making fashion with themes inspired by nature, but making it interactive. If that sounds a little bit vague, consider that she’s made over 40 pieces of clothing, from a spider dress that attacks w... | 11 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4213240",
"author": "Adrian",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T19:42:51",
"content": "I enjoyed this talk, especially seeing the process from conception through prototyping to final implementation. It’s a bit unfortunate that the short video clips were more concerned about visual effect tha... | 1,760,374,586.427907 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/joan-feynman-found-her-place-in-the-sun/ | Joan Feynman Found Her Place In The Sun | Kristina Panos | [
"Biography",
"Hackaday Columns",
"History",
"Original Art",
"Slider",
"Solar Hacks"
] | [
"aurora",
"aurora borealis",
"coronal mass ejections",
"Joan Feynman",
"jpl",
"magnetosphere",
"nasa",
"Richard Feynman",
"solar wind",
"sunspots"
] | Google ‘Joan Feynman’ and you can feel the search behemoth consider asking for clarification. Did you mean:
Richard
Feynman? Image search is even more biased toward Richard. After maybe seven pictures of Joan, there’s an endless scroll of Richard alone, Richard playing the bongos, Richard with Arline, the love of his l... | 45 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "4213088",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T18:10:10",
"content": "WoW!I don’t recall Richard ever mentioning her in his books.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4213115",
"author": "jturner",
"timestamp"... | 1,760,374,586.679769 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/19/gorgeous-engineering-inside-wheels-of-robotic-trail-buddy/ | Gorgeous Engineering Inside Wheels Of A Robotic Trail Buddy | Donald Papp | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"autonomous",
"brushless motor",
"electronic speed control",
"esc",
"exploration",
"gears",
"outdoor",
"planetary gear",
"planetary gears",
"robot",
"robotic",
"rover"
] | Robots are great in general, and [taylor] is currently working on something a bit unusual:
a 3D printed explorer robot to autonomously follow outdoor trails
, named Rover. Rover is still under development, and [taylor] recently completed the drive system and body designs, all shared via OnShape.
Rover has 3D printed 4.... | 23 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "4209788",
"author": "porscheworks",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T10:30:14",
"content": "Does anybody knows why this solution, placing of independent motors on each wheel isn’t used for full sized electric cars? It’s much easier to control motors than build differential gearbox ….",
... | 1,760,374,586.59626 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/19/turn-command-lines-into-web-apps/ | Turn Command Lines Into Web Apps | Al Williams | [
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"github",
"jobson",
"linux",
"webapp"
] | Even if you like using a graphical user interface, you can probably agree that writing a graphical program is usually harder than writing an old-fashioned text-based program. Putting that GUI into an online format means even more to think about. [Adam Kewley] has the answer to that problem:
Jobson
. As you can see in t... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "4209197",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.1",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T03:07:02",
"content": "Nice, you cobble some dirty c code to make your science project talk to your pi or whatevs, then cobble that to it, so you can webserve it to your phone…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,586.726377 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/19/hackaday-links-november-19-2017/ | Hackaday Links: November 19, 2017 | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"3D hubs",
"broadcom",
"mergers and acquisitions",
"NVIDIA",
"Nvidia TX1",
"qualcomm",
"retrocomputing",
"techshop",
"ultralight"
] | [Peter]’s homebuilt ultralight is actually flying now
and not in ground effect, much to the chagrin of YouTube commenters.
[Peter Sripol] built a Part 103 ultralight
(no license required, any moron can jump in one and fly) in his basement out of foam board from Lowes. Now, he’s actually doing flight testing, and he man... | 26 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "4209021",
"author": "drwho8 (@drwho8)",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T00:25:21",
"content": "You are quite correct there Brian. The Ultralight aircraft arena resembles the early, read after 1903 to 1918 time period for regular aircraft. Theoretically anyone who believes he understands th... | 1,760,374,586.786088 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/19/homemade-test-jig-is-cheaper-than-outsourcing/ | Homemade Test Jig Is Cheaper Than Outsourcing | Tom Nardi | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"dxf",
"eagle",
"gerber",
"hardware testing",
"jig",
"overseas Manufacturing"
] | In the past, [Sjaak] has had his testing and programming jigs made for him in Shenzhen, but realized they weren’t that great of a value. They weren’t terribly expensive in the grand scheme of things, but they didn’t include any wiring, so he was still spending his own time and money. His quest to develop his own in-hou... | 15 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4208894",
"author": "Jac Goudsmit",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T21:59:25",
"content": "Most test jigs I’ve seen are made of pogo pins mounted on a blank circuit board that’s identical to the pcb under test. That way you don’t have to design a new pcb for the jig.",
"parent_id": nul... | 1,760,374,586.838304 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/19/tips-for-basic-machining-on-a-drill-press/ | Tips For Basic Machining On A Drill Press | Tom Nardi | [
"hardware",
"how-to"
] | [
"cross slide vice",
"drill press",
"machining",
"tips"
] | It’s safe to say most Hackaday readers would love to have a mill at home, or a nice lathe, but such equipment isn’t always practical for the hobbyist. The expense and amount of room they take up is a hard sell unless you’re building things on them regularly, so we’re often forced to improvise. In his latest video,
[Eri... | 77 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "4208675",
"author": "Kyle",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T18:23:57",
"content": "I was always told never to do that to a drill press. It will ruin the bearings",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4208722",
"author": "Ben",
... | 1,760,374,586.95144 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/19/real-life-electronic-neurons/ | Real-Life Electronic Neurons | Brian Benchoff | [
"Crowd Funding",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"beam",
"Crowd Funding",
"crowdfunding",
"hackaday.io",
"kickstarter"
] | All the kids down at Stanford are talking about neural nets. Whether this is due to the actual utility of neural nets or because all those kids were born after AI’s last death in the mid-80s is anyone’s guess, but there is one significant drawback to this tiny subset of machine intelligence: it’s a complete abstraction... | 25 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "4208509",
"author": "zakqwy",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T15:06:53",
"content": "not a hack",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4208533",
"author": "Nope",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T15:32:33",
"content": "Not a... | 1,760,374,588.866361 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/19/play-a-claw-machine-from-your-armchair/ | Play A Claw Machine From Your Armchair | Jenny List | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"claw machine",
"live stream",
"raspberry pi"
] | Have you ever been seduced by a claw machine in an arcade, only to have your hopes of a cuddly toy dashed as it fails to hang onto your choice? Then you’re in luck, because now you can play to your heart’s content online. [Ryan Walmsley] wants you to control
his Raspberry Pi-driven claw machine
.
Hardware-wise he’s rep... | 18 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "4208415",
"author": "Tore Lund",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T12:46:58",
"content": "Nice, on his webpage it looks like he is scrambling to put the machine back together, because of us. Thank you.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4... | 1,760,374,588.917926 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/python-keeps-a-gecko-happy/ | Python Keeps A Gecko Happy: Terrarium Automation With Raspberry Pi | Sven Gregori | [
"green hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"aquarium",
"automation",
"greenhouse",
"python",
"raspberry",
"terrarium"
] | For better or worse, pets often serve as inspiration and test subjects for hardware hacks: smarten up that hamster wheel, tweet the squirrel hunting adventures from a dog’s point of view, or automate and remote control a reptile enclosure. [TheYOSH], a gecko breeder from the Netherlands, chose the latter and wrote
Terr... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4213036",
"author": "The-Bent",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T16:40:00",
"content": "I found this a few months ago and set it up. It does work well but sometimes has issues on startup that prevent the program from working. I had to stop using it in favor of some simple scripts because i ... | 1,760,374,588.995428 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/hackers-vs-mold-building-a-humidistat-fan/ | Hackers Vs. Mold: Building A Humidistat Fan | Sean Boyce | [
"green hacks",
"Hackaday Columns",
"home hacks"
] | [
"air quality",
"automatic ventilation",
"dht11",
"ESP8266",
"fan controller",
"humidistat",
"mold",
"smart fan",
"ventilation",
"Wemos",
"wemos mini d1"
] | Having a mold problem in your home is terrible, especially if you have an allergy to it. It can be toxic, aggravate asthma, and damage your possessions. But let’s be honest, before you even get to those listed issues, having mold where you live feels disgusting.
You can clean it with the regular use of unpleasant chemi... | 29 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "4212969",
"author": "Maes",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T15:32:02",
"content": "Pretty clever fix! Another approach might have been to use two DHT11s on longer wires; one indoors and one outdoors, to make sure the fan doesn’t turn on when the humidity outdoors is higher than the one ind... | 1,760,374,588.804764 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/mad-eye-for-the-wifi/ | Mad Eye For The WiFi | Lewin Day | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"ESP8266",
"harry potter",
"mad eye",
"mad eye moody",
"wifi"
] | In the Harry Potter universe, Professor Moody was, perhaps unfairly, given the nickname Mad Eye for the prosthetic eye he wore. His eye remains a challenge for technically-minded cosplayers aiming to recreate the look and feel of this unique piece of headgear.
[cyborgworkshop] had already mastered the basic eye, but wa... | 12 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "4212980",
"author": "Olsen",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T15:45:13",
"content": "What if the eyes targeted people’s phones with wifi, and looked at them. I don’t know how hard that’d be, it might work if you have a mesh network of “eyes” that triangulate (I hope I used it correctly) wif... | 1,760,374,589.037553 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/21/prototyping-making-a-board-for-and-coding-an-arm-neural-net-robot/ | Prototyping, Making A Board For, And Coding An ARM Neural Net Robot | Steven Dufresne | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"ai",
"ann",
"ardiuno",
"Atmel SAM",
"KiCAD",
"machine learning",
"neural network"
] | [Sean Hodgins]’s calls his three-part video series an
Arduino Neural Network Robot
but we’d rather call it an enjoyable series on prototyping, designing a board with surface mount parts, assembling it, and oh yeah, putting a neural network on it, all the while offering plenty of useful tips.
In part one, prototype and ... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "4212437",
"author": "MacSimski",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T12:27:08",
"content": "interesting. I always start with the power lines on a board.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
}
] | 1,760,374,588.953757 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/20/home-brew-augmented-reality/ | Home Brew Augmented Reality | Will Sweatman | [
"Virtual Reality"
] | [
"augmented reality",
"opencv",
"python",
"virtual reality"
] | In July of 2016 a game was released that quickly spread to every corner of the planet. Pokemon Go was an Augmented Reality game that used a smart phone’s GPS location and camera to place virtual creatures into the person’s real location. The game was praised for its creativity and was one of the most popular and profit... | 10 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "4211332",
"author": "floz",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T06:42:34",
"content": ":D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4211392",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T06:58:57",
"content": "I’m sure quite a few have... | 1,760,374,589.339875 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/20/esp8266-home-monitor-is-stylishly-simplistic/ | ESP8266 Home Monitor Is Stylishly Simplistic | Tom Nardi | [
"green hacks",
"hardware",
"home hacks"
] | [
"3d printed",
"dht22",
"environmental monitoring",
"ESP8266",
"mqtt",
"NodeMCU",
"openhab"
] | It’s often said that “Less is More”, and we think that the chic ESP8266 environmental monitor posted by Thingiverse user [bkpsu] definitely fits the bill. Dubbed
“Kube”, the device is a 3D printed white cube with an OLED display in the center
, which [bkpsu] says was designed specifically for the approval of his wife. ... | 18 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4211217",
"author": "scott t",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T04:14:49",
"content": "I’ve got one of those in my chicken coop, just not as nice looking.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4211286",
"author": "Vedran Alajbegović",
... | 1,760,374,589.197216 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/20/distributed-air-quality-monitoring-via-taxi-fleet/ | Distributed Air Quality Monitoring Via Taxi Fleet | Kristina Panos | [
"Lifehacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"air quality",
"Android Things",
"cloud applications",
"ftdi",
"gps",
"pollution",
"Raspberry Pi 3",
"taxi",
"weather"
] | When [James] moved to Lima, Peru, he brought his jogging habit with him. His morning jaunts to the coast involve crossing a few busy streets that are often occupied by old, smoke-belching diesel trucks. [James] noticed that his throat would tickle a bit when he got back home. A recent study linking air pollution to dem... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "4210983",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-11-21T00:59:03",
"content": "Citizen science is fun. For a real challenge wire birds up to tell you what the air environment is.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4211104",
... | 1,760,374,589.090331 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/problems-that-plagued-an-edible-marble-machine/ | Problems That Plagued An Edible Marble Machine | Donald Papp | [
"cooking hacks",
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"cake",
"competition",
"edible",
"gingerbread",
"Laser cutting",
"marble machine",
"sugar gum",
"sugar paste"
] | Prolific creator [Martin Raynsford] recently created a plus-sized
edible version of his laser-cut Marble Machine
for a Cake International exhibit and competition; it seemed simple to do at first but had quite a few gotchas waiting, and required some clever problem-solving.
Gears are three layers, stacked and cemented w... | 12 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "4206887",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2017-11-18T15:25:42",
"content": "gumballs instead of marbles would perhaps be a nice alternative (considering you can’t eat marbles but you can eat gumbals…) Very creative cake-idea, I’m sure the creator get’s full points for originality.Ver... | 1,760,374,589.143841 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/becoming-your-own-isp-just-for-fun/ | Becoming Your Own ISP, Just For Fun | Lewin Day | [
"internet hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"bgp",
"border gateway protocol",
"cisco",
"internet",
"ip",
"ipv4",
"IPv6",
"isp",
"networking",
"router",
"routing"
] | When moving into a new house, it’s important to arrange for the connection of basic utilities. Electricity, water, and gas are simple enough, and then it’s generally fairly easy to set up a connection to an ISP for your internet connection. A router plugs into a phone line, or maybe a fiber connection and lovely packet... | 46 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "4206780",
"author": "John",
"timestamp": "2017-11-18T13:44:53",
"content": "Much noodle baking later and I understand maybe 1% of that. It was however interesting and leaves me with a question.As an “ordinary” internet user is it a sensible question to ask an ISP how many BGP router... | 1,760,374,589.677989 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/upgraded-hotel-room-coffee/ | Upgraded Hotel Room Coffee | Brian McEvoy | [
"Lifehacks"
] | [
"coffee",
"cold press",
"filter",
"healthy",
"on-the-go"
] | The secret of cold-brew coffee is out. Department stores are selling gimmicks to make it at home or you can make it with a mason jar in good old-fashioned DIY style. This method is for the on-the-go hacker who may not have even the most spartan of equipment to
brew a cold cup of Joe
. Many hotel rooms are outfitted wit... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4206518",
"author": "eureka",
"timestamp": "2017-11-18T09:31:32",
"content": "The linked to article is barely readable. Is this a google-translate or something?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4206667",
"author": "Tors... | 1,760,374,589.720347 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/raspberry-pi-compute-module-3-in-a-gameboy-original/ | Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 In A GameBoy Original | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks"
] | [
"Compute Module 3",
"gameboy",
"gaming",
"nintendo",
"Pi 3",
"raspberry pi",
"retro",
"retropie"
] | [Kite] has been making custom PCBs for GameBoys for a long time. Long enough, in fact, that other people have used his work to build even more feature-rich GameBoy platforms. Unfortunately some of their work had stagnated, so [Kite] picked it up and completed a new project:
a GameBoy that uses a Raspberry Pi running on... | 5 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4206250",
"author": "terrapin",
"timestamp": "2017-11-18T06:40:30",
"content": "“We featured the original build by [inches] before, but [Kite] has taken it over since then.”Inches CEMU build was an add on board to Kites original SAIO board that used the pi zero, this board (Kites ci... | 1,760,374,589.757801 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/new-part-day-a-fake-sun/ | New Part Day: A Fake Sun | Anool Mahidharia | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Parts"
] | [
"500W LED",
"COB",
"high CRI",
"led",
"LED lighting"
] | LED technology has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years, with what was once considered unachievable being common place now. Two of the main parameters of interest, total input power and conversion efficiency have been steadily increasing over the years. An efficacy of 120 lumens/watt is fairly common nowadays, ... | 49 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "4206016",
"author": "Internet",
"timestamp": "2017-11-18T03:49:28",
"content": "Something tells me that the $500 retail price will clearly not likely remain that high for long. My bigger question though is how does cooling have to be handled when you put that much power in such a sm... | 1,760,374,590.110021 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/your-next-wearable-may-not-need-electricity/ | Your Next Wearable May Not Need Electricity | Kristina Panos | [
"News",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"conductive thread",
"f'n magnets",
"ferromagnetic",
"magentometer",
"magnetic storage",
"passive",
"secret message"
] | What if you could unlock a door with your shirtsleeve, or code a secret message into your tie? This could soon be a thing, because
researchers at the University of Washington have created a fabric that can store data without any electronics whatsoever
. The fabric can be washed, dried, and even ironed without losing d... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "4205635",
"author": "Zalo",
"timestamp": "2017-11-18T00:05:33",
"content": "Yeah, so RFID or NFC can do this cheaply and more easily. Just saying.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4205678",
"author": "JackDanson",
"timest... | 1,760,374,589.978628 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/mindstorms-forkliftbots-gonna-take-your-job/ | Mindstorms Forkliftbots Gonna Take Your Job | John Baichtal | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"forklift",
"lego mindstorms",
"Mindstorms EV3",
"robot",
"warehouse"
] | With every advance in robotics, we get closer to being able to order stuff from Amazon and have no human being participate in its delivery. Key step in this dream: warehouse robots, smart forklifts able to control and inventory and entire warehouse full of pallets, without the meat community getting involved. [Thomas R... | 21 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "4205369",
"author": "k-ww",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T21:19:19",
"content": "perfect timing – I just saw this about forklift accidents:https://www.impomag.com/blog/2017/11/these-10-forklift-accident-videos-show-why-training-so-crucial?et_cid=6178483&et_rid=45561501&location=top&et_ci... | 1,760,374,590.166402 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/20/acetone-smoothing-results-in-working-motor/ | Acetone Smoothing Results In Working Motor | Brian Benchoff | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"air",
"air power",
"drone",
"rc"
] | Here’s something only ’90s kids will remember. In 1998, the Air Hogs Sky Shark, a free-flying model airplane powered by compressed air was released. This plane featured foam stabilizers, wings, a molded fuselage that served as a reservoir, and a novel engine powered by compressed air. The complete Sky Shark setup inclu... | 20 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "4210340",
"author": "Tom Nardi",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T21:07:51",
"content": "Now just need to couple this with a 3D printed compressed air tank, and we’ll be in business:https://hackaday.com/2016/06/02/3d-printing-compressed-air-tanks/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,589.935513 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/20/can-commodity-rc-controllers-stay-relevant/ | Can Commodity RC Controllers Stay Relevant? | John Baichtal | [
"drone hacks",
"Featured",
"Interest"
] | [
"beep menus",
"custom firmware",
"drone controller",
"drones",
"RC transmitter",
"taranis 9x",
"turnigy",
"turnigy 9x",
"tx"
] | Visualize some radio controlled airplane fanatic of yesteryear, with the requisite giant controller hanging from a strap, neck craned to see the buzzing dot silhouetted against the sky. It’s kind of a stereotype, isn’t it? Those big transmitters were heavy, expensive, and hard to modify, but that was just part of the c... | 42 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "4210267",
"author": "Vije (@VijeMiller)",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T19:36:36",
"content": "Controlling a device – with your thumbs and fingers?! That has gone way of the record – sure it has a richer analog feel – but we prefer the 120 disc change for automation – much like our robot... | 1,760,374,590.251018 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/20/an-interview-with-alex-williams-grand-prize-winner/ | An Interview With Alex Williams, Grand Prize Winner | Mike Szczys | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Robots Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"Alex Williams",
"autonomous underwater vehicle",
"auv",
"bouyancy",
"bouyancy engine",
"glider",
"grand prize",
"ocean research",
"ocean sensors",
"Open Source Underwater Glider",
"rov"
] | Alex Williams pulled off an incredible engineering project. He developed an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) which uses a buoyancy engine rather than propellers as its propulsion mechanism and made the entire project Open Source and Open Hardware.
The design aims to make extended duration missions a possibility by u... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4210224",
"author": "steve",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T18:28:57",
"content": "Send him to MIT!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4210321",
"author": "zakqwy",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T20:46:35",
"content": "Profile link... | 1,760,374,590.02927 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/20/dual-port-ram-nes-cartridge/ | The King Of All Game Genies In An Arduino | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"ATMega2560",
"memory",
"nes",
"nintendo",
"rom"
] | While Nintendo is making a killing on nostalgic old consoles, there is a small but dedicated group of hackers still working with the original equipment. Since the original NES was rolled out in the 80s, though, there are a few shortcomings with the technology. Now, though, we have Arduinos, cheap memory, and interestin... | 16 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "4210137",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.1",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T16:45:24",
"content": "Reference for the kids who have NF clue what a Game Genie is…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4210248"... | 1,760,374,590.299182 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/20/the-database-of-the-time-lords/ | The Database Of The Time Lords | Brian Benchoff | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Interest",
"Linux Hacks",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"how computers track timezones",
"time zones",
"tz",
"tzdata",
"tz_database",
"zoneinfo"
] | Time zones have been a necessity since humans could travel faster than a horse, but with computers, interconnected over a vast hive of information, a larger problem has emerged. How do you keep track of time zones? Moreover, how do you keep track of time zones throughout history?
Quick question. If it’s noon in Boston,... | 71 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "4210084",
"author": "Steven13",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T15:19:14",
"content": "Tom Scott gives a detailed and amusing description of the difficulties of time zones.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,374,590.657124 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/20/simple-jig-gives-plastic-homes-to-orphaned-projects/ | Simple Jig Gives Plastic Homes To Orphaned Projects | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"acrylic",
"bending",
"case",
"enclosure",
"lexan",
"nichrome",
"plastic",
"Thermal"
] | Look around your bench and chances are pretty good that there’s a PCB or scrap of perfboard or even a breadboard sitting there, wires and LEDs sprouting off it, doing something useful and interesting. Taking it to the next level with a snazzy enclosure just seems too hard sometimes, especially if you don’t have access ... | 26 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "4209919",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T12:12:38",
"content": "There’s something particularly satisfying about one of the first things being made on a machine is upgraded parts for the machine itself. Gives me them reprap feels.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,590.354883 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/20/fatpiboy-respin-game-boy-with-a-pop-out-controller/ | FatPiBoy: Respin Game Boy With A Pop-Out Controller | Tom Nardi | [
"handhelds hacks",
"Nintendo Game Boy Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"3d printed",
"8bitdo Zero",
"nexus 7",
"PiGGRL",
"rasberry pi"
] | Have you ever found yourself wishing you had a clone of the Game Boy, except it was actually twice as wide, and instead of holding it in your hands you pop a tiny separate controller out of the middle and play it that way? No? Well, neither have we.
But that didn’t stop [Christian Reinbacher] from designing and buildin... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "4210033",
"author": "Dave Davidson",
"timestamp": "2017-11-20T13:56:10",
"content": "Nice reuse of some partsThe 8bitdo controllers have bad battery supplied last sometimes from few weeks or a year and no longer holds a charge.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,374,590.398567 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/19/3d-printed-cookie-molds-for-the-best-speculoos/ | 3D Printed Cookie Molds For The Best Speculoos | Christian Trapp | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"cooking hacks"
] | [
"3d printing techniques",
"cookies",
"food",
"kitchen hacks"
] | Experiencing nostalgia for the outstanding Belgian cuisine [Adam], currently stuck in Ohio, found himself in craving some home-made speculoos. For the uninitiated, speculoos is what those brown cookies usually served with coffee on planes dream of becoming one day.
To add some extra regional flavour, [Adam] decided to
... | 12 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4208279",
"author": "LOL",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T09:50:11",
"content": "Thing bigger, go Navy:http://www.krem.com/img/resize/content.krem.com/photo/2017/11/16/penis%20pic%202_1510877949684_11722469_ver1.0.JPG?preset=mb_large",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies":... | 1,760,374,590.784978 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/brits-make-a-vote-put-some-cash-a-hackerspaces-way/ | Brits: Make A Vote, Put Cash A Hackerspace’s Way | Jenny List | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackerspaces",
"News"
] | [
"funding",
"grant",
"hackerspaces",
"hackspace",
"makerspace"
] | Those of you who have been involved in the running of a hackerspace or makerspace will know the never-ending struggle to maintain financial solvency, and the quest for sources of income to move your organisation forward. It’s certainly a topic upon which Hackaday’s crew have some experience, more than one of us has hel... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "4208225",
"author": "TinkerAbbyT",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T08:21:38",
"content": "Influencing a foreign election arent we? :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4208236",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T08:... | 1,760,374,590.830217 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/huge-74181-is-a-classic-alu-you-can-actually-understand/ | Huge 74181 Is A Classic ALU You Can Actually Understand | Jenny List | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"74181",
"ALU",
"cpu",
"ttl"
] | You can no longer buy a brand-new 74181, they’ve been out of production for years. All is not lost though, for [Dave’s Dev Lab] have
created a facsimile of one on a printed circuit board
, using modern single-gate 74-series chips.
Why on earth would you want an oversized replica of an outdated logic chip from nearly fi... | 22 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "4208140",
"author": "richfiles",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T06:24:58",
"content": "I love these types of builds! I’ve aways been a learn by seeing/learn by doing type. I can’t just read about it and immediately get it. This is exactly the type of stuff that flip on those light bulbs f... | 1,760,374,591.002188 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/ds212-oscilloscope-review-open-source-and-great-for-hacking/ | DS212 Oscilloscope Review: Open Source And Great For Hacking | Al Williams | [
"ARM",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"arm",
"ds212",
"dual channel",
"oscilloscope",
"scope",
"stm32"
] | We’ve seen plenty of oscilloscopes that look like repurposed cell phones. Usually, though, they only have one channel. The DS212, has two channels and a signal generator! [Marco] gives
his review
and a quick tear down in the video below.
The scope isn’t going to replace a big bench instrument, but for a portable scope ... | 37 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "4207937",
"author": "Digital Corpus",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T03:16:57",
"content": "The big[est] brother is the DS203, which has 8 MHz, 2 analog, 2 digital, and one waveform channel. There is some automotive applications that are very applicable for that one since 1 MHz might be a... | 1,760,374,590.943096 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/drill-the-wet-side-wet-and-the-dry-side-dry/ | Drill The Wet Side Wet And The Dry Side Dry | Dan Maloney | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"drill",
"drill press",
"fabrication",
"mag base drill",
"metalwork",
"miter saw"
] | Working mostly in metal as he does, [Tuomas Soikkeli] has invested in some nice tools. So when his sweet magnetic-base drill was in need of a new home, he built
this two-in-one drilling station
to maximize shop space and add some versatility to boot.
For the non-metalworkers out there, a mag-base drill is basically a p... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "4208468",
"author": "brian",
"timestamp": "2017-11-19T14:14:09",
"content": "Why there is no comments here after 24h ? Maybe if some guy strap some shit to electric dc motor there will be more?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": ... | 1,760,374,590.869906 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/3d-printed-wifi-reflectors-custom-designed-for-the-building/ | 3D Printed WiFi Reflectors Custom Designed For The Building | Pedro Umbelino | [
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"antenna",
"wifi",
"wiprint"
] | Are you a wizard at antenna design? Chances are you’ve never even given it a try, but this tool could change that. Most home-made WiFi signal boosting antenna plans around the Internet share one feature: they are directional antennas or reflectors. But
WiPrint is a tool for designing custom WiFi reflectors
that map to ... | 35 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "4207443",
"author": "jacobchrist",
"timestamp": "2017-11-18T21:11:57",
"content": "Will Aluminum foil work as good as Tin foil?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4207458",
"author": "codifies",
"timestamp": "2017... | 1,760,374,591.126891 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/18/mister-upgrades-vintage-computer-recreations/ | MiSTer Upgrades Vintage Computer Recreations | Al Williams | [
"classic hacks",
"FPGA"
] | [
"Altera",
"classic computer",
"fpga",
"vintage computer"
] | The MiST project provides an FPGA-based platform for recreating vintage computers. We recently saw an upgraded board —
MiSTer
— with a similar goal but with increased capability. You can see a video of the board acting like an Apple ][ playing Pac Man, below.
The board isn’t emulating the target computer. Rather, it us... | 26 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "4207201",
"author": "Olsen",
"timestamp": "2017-11-18T18:37:04",
"content": "FPGAs are so cool, It’s a shame I’ve been decensitized to them. This being due to overuse. My blood only rushes for dedicated hardware now.What a shame. :-(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"rep... | 1,760,374,591.06252 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/hacking-the-ikea-tradfri-light-bulb/ | Hacking The IKEA Trådfri Light Bulb | John Baichtal | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"ikea",
"tradfri"
] | [BasilFX] wanted to
shoehorn custom firmware onto his IKEA Trådfri light bulb
. The product consists of a GU10-size light bulb with a LED driver as well as IKEA’s custom ZigBee module controlling it all. A diffuser, enclosure shell, and Edison-screw base give the whole thing the same form factor as a standard A-series ... | 13 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4205359",
"author": "bugcannon",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T21:11:54",
"content": "256 Kb, how much is that in fahrenheit bits?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4206615",
"author": "Lennart",
"timestamp": "2017-11... | 1,760,374,591.241746 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/modernizing-a-170-year-old-antique-grandfather-clock/ | Modernizing A 170 Year Old Antique Grandfather Clock | Anool Mahidharia | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"clock hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"clock",
"ds1307",
"DS3231",
"grandfather clock",
"Moon Phase",
"stepper motor",
"uno"
] | Frankly, we let out a yelp of despair when we read this in the tip line “
Antique Grandfather clock with Arduino insides
“! But before you too roll your eyes, groan, or post snark, do check out [David Henshaw]’s amazing blog post on how he spent almost eight months working on the conversion.
Before you jump to any conc... | 28 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "4205222",
"author": "therafman",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T19:48:40",
"content": "He used Meccano parts and gears! That’s awesome for a hack!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4205266",
"author": "mikeselectricstuff",
"time... | 1,760,374,591.189558 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/what-actually-happens-at-a-hardware-hacking-con/ | What Actually Happens At A Hardware Hacking Con | Brian Benchoff | [
"cons",
"Featured",
"Slider"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Superconference",
"3d printer",
"badge",
"badge emulator",
"badge hacking",
"badgelife",
"contest",
"film festival",
"SLA printer"
] | The Hackaday Superconference
was last weekend, and it was the greatest hardware con on the planet. What can you build out of a conference badge? If you answered “a resin-based 3D printer” you would have won a prize. If you decided to put your badge in a conference water bottle and make a stun gun you’d receive adoratio... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4205157",
"author": "Michael",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T19:09:30",
"content": "I worked with Jacob on the printer and we sourced a visible light curing resin, UV not needed.https://photocentricgroup.com/usa/product/daylight-hard-resin-2/?v=7516fd43adaa",
"parent_id": null,
"... | 1,760,374,591.58929 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/diy-capacitive-rotational-encoder-on-the-cheap-with-fr4/ | DIY Capacitive Rotational Encoder On The Cheap With FR4 | Donald Papp | [
"hardware",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"555",
"capacitive sensing",
"capacitor",
"dielectric",
"diy",
"DIY capacitor",
"fr4",
"FR4 construction",
"high speed",
"pcb",
"rotary encoder",
"sensor"
] | Rotary encoders are critical to many applications, even at the hobbyist level. While considering his own rotary encoding needs for upcoming projects, it occurred to [Jan Mrázek] to try making his own
DIY capacitive rotary encoder
. If successful, such an encoder could be cheap and very fast; it could also in part be ma... | 15 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "4204923",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T17:24:11",
"content": "Kind of like the linear sensor in some calipers.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4205001",
"author": "CRJEEA",
"timestamp": "2017-... | 1,760,374,591.487871 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/goodbye-techshop/ | Goodbye, TechShop | DJ Harrigan | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"News",
"Slider"
] | [
"business",
"makerspace",
"techshop"
] | The CEO of TechShop, [Dan Woods], has hit the legal E-stop and declared Chapter-7 bankruptcy for the business. All ten US locations were shuttered on Wednesday with absolutely no advance warning. You can read
the full statement from [Dan] here
.
We are deeply saddened to hear of TechShop’s closing, and while it wasn’t ... | 112 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "4204601",
"author": "Darren",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T15:07:53",
"content": "A lot of people have been saying this is what RadioShack should have done, imagine what an enormous failure that would have been when you see how this venture run by someone who knew what they are doing ha... | 1,760,374,592.144862 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/is-intels-management-engine-broken-yet/ | Is Intel’s Management Engine Broken Yet? | Pedro Umbelino | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"exploit",
"IME",
"jtag",
"security",
"USB DCI"
] | Our own [Brian Benchoff] asked this same question just six months ago in a similar headline. At that time, the answer was no. Or kind of no. Some exploits existed but with some preconditions that limited the impact of the bugs found in Intel Management Engine (IME). But 2017 is an unforgiving year for the blue teams, a... | 50 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "4204174",
"author": "steelman",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T12:11:54",
"content": "What if Intel fsckd ME on purpose? Today everyone has their chips, everyone needs them, everyone wants to be secure. But for Intel this is not enough to make enough profit. Oh, no there is a security bug... | 1,760,374,591.740669 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/17/cheap-flamethrower-is-predictably-worrying/ | Cheap Flamethrower Is Predictably Worrying | Tom Nardi | [
"hardware",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"butane",
"flamethrower",
"openscad",
"Solenoid valve"
] | We’d never criticize somebody for coming up with a creative way to save a few bucks. In truth, pickings would be pretty slim around here if we deleted every project or hack where cost savings was a prime motivator. That being said, there’s still some things you should probably spend a few extra dollars on. You know, th... | 36 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "4203883",
"author": "John Doe",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T09:26:58",
"content": "> What’s noticeably lacking of course is any method to keep the flame from potentially traveling back up through the valve and into the butane can.Wouldn’t that require oxygen in the butane can?",
"p... | 1,760,374,591.811792 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/16/the-hacker-village-of-supercon/ | The Hacker Village Of Supercon | Mike Szczys | [
"cons",
"Current Events",
"Featured"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Superconference",
"Hackaday Supercon",
"Supercon"
] | I’m utterly exhausted and still in a state of awe. The Hackaday Superconference has grown in so many ways, but one thing remains the same: the spirit of the Hacker Village — an intangible feeling that grows up around all who attend — is bliss to take part in.
There’s really no substitute for having been there in person... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4203125",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2017-11-16T16:06:41",
"content": "I could be there next year, I’ll need a sugar daddy to pay my airfare, lodging, and fees, though…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4204053",
"au... | 1,760,374,592.383693 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/16/your-drone-is-cool-but-its-no-jet-fighter/ | Your Drone Is Cool, But It’s No Jet Fighter | Jenny List | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"aircraft",
"Gas turbine",
"jet",
"jet aircraft",
"model aircraft"
] | There are some communities with whom our happy band of hardware hackers share a lot in common, but with whom we don’t often associate. The more workshop-orientated end of the car modification or railway modeler scenes, for instance, or the model aircraft fraternity. Many of these communities exist more for the activity... | 45 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "4202913",
"author": "eccentricelectron",
"timestamp": "2017-11-16T12:25:27",
"content": "The electric fan-based VSTOL models are pretty awesome too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4202940",
"author": "El33t",
"timestamp... | 1,760,374,592.222136 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/16/hacking-an-industrial-42-multitouch-pc/ | Hacking An Industrial 42″ Multitouch PC | Steven Dufresne | [
"Multitouch Hacks"
] | [
"multitouch",
"touch screen"
] | We’re slowly moving in the direction where everyone will have a touch screen desk like in the 1982 TRON movie or in the 1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation series with its ubiquitous touchscreen starship controls. [FFcossag] lucked into that future when a local company offered him
an industrial 42″ multitouch PC
that t... | 51 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "4202824",
"author": "Lord Nothing",
"timestamp": "2017-11-16T10:25:11",
"content": "you can have my keyboard when you pry it out of my cold dead hands.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "4202905",
"author": "ytrewq",
... | 1,760,374,592.00057 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/15/surprise-your-loved-one-with-a-heart-keychain/ | Surprise Your Loved One With A Heart Keychain | Will Sweatman | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"0603",
"keychain",
"Microchip PIC"
] | Sometimes the simplest projects can be the most impressive. Most of the time our simple projects are not as neat and elegant as our more time consuming ones. Sometimes they don’t even leave the breadboard! When [Sasa Karanovic] first envisioned his key-chain idea, he knew it would be simple. But he made up for the lack... | 20 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "4202674",
"author": "sam",
"timestamp": "2017-11-16T06:36:48",
"content": "The smallest discrete component I’ve worked with while hand soldering would be a 0201 resistor while the smallest pitch would be a 0.4mm DFN. Components that have a line of pins are dealt with by tacking one ... | 1,760,374,592.281318 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/15/iot-garage-door-opener-from-scrap/ | IoT Garage Door Opener From Scrap | Will Sweatman | [
"ARM",
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"automatic garage door opener",
"C.H.I.P.",
"IoT"
] | [Hans Nielsen] has a couple roommates, and his garage has become a catch-all for various items. And like any good hacker’s garage, it boasts an IoT controlled garage door opener. It had a problem though, it used a Particle Photon – a popular IoT board that required internet access and a web server to operate. So [Hans]... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4202606",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2017-11-16T04:30:07",
"content": "So much work for one button press. Anyone sniffing on WiFi will be curious. I hope the web interface has moving target buttons to press a code to actually open the door.",
"parent_id": null,
"de... | 1,760,374,592.328091 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/15/nodeconf-eu-hackable-badge/ | NodeConf EU Hackable Badge | Anool Mahidharia | [
"hardware",
"Tech Hacks"
] | [
"badge",
"bluetooth",
"Espruino",
"javascript",
"NodeConfEU",
"Nodejs"
] | During conferences, a name-tag is one of the first things people look at when bumping in to others – mentally trying to keep track of faces and names. But gone are the days when your name tag was a post-it stuck on your arm. Over the years, conference badges have become increasingly interesting and complex. Hackable el... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "4202438",
"author": "wethepeople_ask ? (@wethepplbriaght)",
"timestamp": "2017-11-16T00:41:25",
"content": "Why is it called ‘Grand Challenge’, again ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4202514",
"author": "Ren",
"timestam... | 1,760,374,592.454699 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/15/bluetooth-photo-booth-gets-vetting-at-wedding/ | Bluetooth Photo Booth Gets Vetting At Wedding | Kristina Panos | [
"Playstation Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"camera gimbal",
"neural style",
"neural style transfer",
"photo booth",
"playstation controller"
] | With just two weeks to go before his friends’ wedding,
[gistnoesis] built a well-featured robotic photo booth
. Using a Bluetooth PS3 controller, guests could move the camera around, take a picture, style it in one of several ways (or not), and print it out with a single button press.
The camera is mounted on a DIY 2-a... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "4203043",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2017-11-16T14:39:01",
"content": "“vetting at wedding”I see what you did there…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4203790",
"author": "exit151",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T06:53:52",
... | 1,760,374,592.416843 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/16/mega-game-watch-true-multiplayer-game/ | Mega Game & Watch: True Multiplayer Game | Steven Dufresne | [
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"game",
"game and watch",
"nintendo",
"nostalgia",
"video game"
] | Today we’re used to handheld game consoles like the Nintendo Switch, that let you roam around in 3D worlds which include not only 3D players but more terrain than many people walk around in real life in a week. But back in the early 1980s Nintendo’s handheld offering was the Game & Watch, which used a segmented LCD dis... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4203771",
"author": "Saabman",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T06:24:13",
"content": "That’s awesome.One Christmas my siblings and I were treated to a game and watch game each from our uncle and aunty and my sister got Octopus- unfortunately it met an early demise after tumbling down a fli... | 1,760,374,592.728132 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/16/sensing-soil-moisture-youre-doing-it-wrong/ | Sensing Soil Moisture: You’re Doing It Wrong! | Brian McEvoy | [
"green hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"aeroponic",
"aquaponic",
"arduino",
"garden",
"gardening",
"horticulture",
"measurement",
"microcontroller",
"moisture",
"pic",
"soil"
] | If you compulsively search online for inexpensive microcontroller add-ons, you will see soil moisture measurement kits. [aka]
built a greenhouse
with a host of hacked hardware including lights and automatic watering. What caught our attention among all these was Step 5 in
their instructions
where [aka] explains why the... | 105 | 37 | [
{
"comment_id": "4203675",
"author": "malfist",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T03:17:10",
"content": "Wouldn’t running the sensor only occasionally to check (i.e., one second every couple of hours) also be a way to prevent the electrolysis oxidation?I find it hard to believe that these devices that a lot ... | 1,760,374,592.918419 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/16/servo-controlled-eyeball-makes-a-muggle-moody/ | Servo-Controlled Eyeball Makes A Muggle Moody | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"cosplay",
"costume",
"eye",
"eyeball",
"Moody",
"orbit",
"Potter",
"prosthetic",
"servo",
"steampunk"
] | Even when you bear a passing resemblance to the paranoid Auror of the Harry Potter universe, you still really need that
wonky and wandering prosthetic eye
to really sell that Mad-Eye Moody cosplay, and this one is pretty impressive.
Of course, there’s more to the [daronjay]’s prosthetic peeper than an eBay doll’s eye. ... | 11 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "4203584",
"author": "Olsen",
"timestamp": "2017-11-17T01:18:54",
"content": "Wow! great results! when I first read the title, I worried about speed of the eye, but he implemented it in such a way so the eye moves quickly! How have other people made their robotics move quickly and sm... | 1,760,374,592.959713 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/16/get-you-an-e-textiles-sensor-that-can-do-both/ | Get You An E-Textiles Sensor That Can Do Both | Kristina Panos | [
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"capacitive sensor",
"conductive thread",
"Cypress PSOC",
"e-textiles",
"male header",
"pressure sensor"
] | [Admar] is a software developer who was introduced to e-textiles in 2011. The bug firmly took hold, and these days he gives e-textile workshops at Eindhoven University of Technology. Here, students learn to build a single e-textile sensor that detects both presence and pressure.
The workshop presentations are available... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "4203456",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2017-11-16T22:20:28",
"content": "So, I guess its sensitivity to human skin would not make it good for clothing.More for furniture or something else…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "420... | 1,760,374,592.789792 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/16/more-homemade-pcb-tinning/ | More Homemade PCB Tinning | Al Williams | [
"chemistry hacks"
] | [
"pcb",
"Printed Circuit Board",
"tin plating",
"tinning"
] | [Marko] styles himself as a crazy chemist. His video showing
a fast tin plating solution
for PCBs (YouTube, see below) doesn’t seem so crazy. We will admit, though, it uses some things that you might have to search for.
The formula calls for stannous chloride — you could probably make this by dissolving tin in hydrochl... | 15 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "4203314",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2017-11-16T19:38:02",
"content": "Stan’s twin brother flouride used to be in our toothpaste. Hmm I wonder why he’s gone.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "4203323",
"author": "Bil... | 1,760,374,593.336375 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/16/radio-apocalypse-the-emergency-broadcast-system/ | Radio Apocalypse: The Emergency Broadcast System | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"History",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"conelrad",
"EAS",
"EBS",
"emergency alert system",
"Emergency Broadcast System",
"fcc",
"public alert system"
] | Some sounds are capable of evoking instant terror. It might be the shriek of a mountain lion, or a sudden clap of thunder. Whatever your trigger sound, it instantly stimulates something deep in the lizard brain that says: get ready, danger is at hand.
For my part, you can’t get much scarier than
the instantly recogniza... | 43 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "4203235",
"author": "dtremit",
"timestamp": "2017-11-16T18:10:30",
"content": "Child of the ’80s here, and it actually never occurred to me that these *weren’t* designed for weather emergencies and the like.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"... | 1,760,374,593.185002 |
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