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https://hackaday.com/2017/05/03/hands-on-hot-new-wemos-esp-32-breakout/ | Hands-On The Hot New WeMos ESP-32 Breakout | Elliot Williams | [
"Featured",
"Microcontrollers",
"News",
"Slider"
] | [
"development board",
"ESP32",
"lolin32",
"silicon bug",
"Wemos"
] | Just two weeks ago our favorite supplier of cheap ESP8266 boards, WeMos,
released the long-awaited LOLIN32 ESP-32 board
, and it’s almost a killer. Hackaday regular [deshipu] tipped us off, and we placed an order within minutes; if WeMos is making a dirt-cheap ESP32 development board, we’re on board! It came in the mai... | 39 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3551030",
"author": "Buddy Casino",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T17:19:01",
"content": "Anyone got a source for v1 silicon? This thread says a south european distributor called Astone has them:https://esp32.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=8409#p8409Doesn’t help me, but that means the first cont... | 1,760,374,844.298342 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/03/friday-hack-chat-chip-gracey-from-parallax/ | Friday Hack Chat: Chip Gracey From Parallax | Mike Szczys | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"Hack Chat",
"Hackaday Prize"
] | Learn the ins and outs of
multi-core microcontrollers as Chip Gracey leads this week’s Hack Chat
on Friday 5/5 at noon PDT. Chip founded Parallax and has now been working for more than a decade on the Propeller 2 design, a microcontroller which has 8 and 16 core options.
When it comes to embedded development, most peop... | 25 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550916",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T16:23:04",
"content": "Throw some QNX in there and have some fun.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3550965",
"author": "Drone",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T16:44:46",
... | 1,760,374,844.428706 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/03/tweezing-diodes/ | Tweezing Diodes | Brian Benchoff | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"test clips",
"tools",
"tweezers"
] | Surface mount diodes are simple enough — all you need to do is make sure you have the anode and cathode in the right order when you place them on the pad when you solder them. These SMD diodes come in industry-standard packages, but do you think there’s an industry-standard way of marking the cathode? Nope, not by a lo... | 37 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550858",
"author": "steaky",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T15:29:29",
"content": "You’d think that the polarity would be the same within the same supplier. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen two LEDs, both from Kingbright, with opposing markings.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"rep... | 1,760,374,844.063276 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/03/fail-of-the-week-new-hackerspace-burglarized-days-before-opening/ | Fail Of The Week: New Hackerspace Burglarized Days Before Opening | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Interest",
"Slider"
] | [] | Starting up a new hackerspace from the ground up is a daunting task. Before you even think about the fun stuff like tools and a space, you’ve got a ton of social engineering to do. Finding like-minded people with the drive and passion for seeing the project through is a major stumbling block where many projects falter.... | 161 | 40 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550784",
"author": "nuclear",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T14:06:58",
"content": "Hm. The details make it sound like an inside job.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3550789",
"author": "darkspr1te",
"timestamp": "... | 1,760,374,844.886721 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/03/your-next-desktop-qnx/ | Your Next Desktop… QNX? | Al Williams | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"operating systems",
"posix",
"qnx"
] | QNX has a long checkered history as an embedded operating system. QNX was always famous for being a real time operating system with a microkernel architecture. That is, kernel functions run as a set of coordinated tasks instead of as a single piece of code. A recent release of QNX 7 (see video, below) allows it to run ... | 57 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550608",
"author": "grim",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T11:12:08",
"content": "The i-opener web appliance ran a qnx gui",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3550614",
"author": "Stumbles",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T11:17:17",
... | 1,760,374,844.571012 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/03/hack-your-hike-with-this-arduino-puzzle-geocache/ | Hack Your Hike With This Arduino Puzzle Geocache | Dan Maloney | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"game",
"geocache",
"geocaching",
"hangman",
"hike",
"hiking",
"puzzle"
] | For those who love to hike, no excuse is needed to hit the woods. Other folks, though, need a little coaxing to get into the great outdoors, which is where geocaching comes in: hide something in the woods, post clues to its location online, and they will come. The puzzle is the attraction, and doubly so for
this geocac... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550515",
"author": "sam",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T08:36:38",
"content": "Awesome!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3550525",
"author": "DSLeecher",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T09:10:24",
"content": "GC58TFX – “Booom!!... | 1,760,374,844.211395 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/how-to-reverse-engineer-a-chip/ | How To Reverse Engineer A Chip | Al Williams | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"7400",
"decapsulation",
"reverse engineering"
] | Have you ever wondered how you could look at a chip and map out its schematic? [Robert Baruch] wants to show you
how he does it
and he does in a new video (see below). The video assumes you know how to expose the die because he’s made a video about that before.
This video focuses on using his Beaglebone-driven microsc... | 27 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550451",
"author": "Internet",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T05:04:02",
"content": "http://www.visual6502.org/In the summer of 2009, the Visual6502.org project shot and assembled high resolution photographs of a MOS 6502 revision D. The surface of the chip was photographed, then the met... | 1,760,374,844.362023 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/copper-foil-makes-music-with-a-little-help/ | Copper Foil Makes Music–With A Little Help | Al Williams | [
"ATtiny Hacks",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"attiny85",
"copper tape",
"synthesizer"
] | Craft stores are often the source of odd inspiration. In the stained glass section, we’ve seen the copper foil, and even used it to prototype some RF circuits on the tops of shoeboxes. However, we could never get a good method for connecting ICs to the relatively thick foil. [Bryan Cera] did it though. His
paperSynth
u... | 14 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550461",
"author": "anony",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T05:49:37",
"content": "why?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3550467",
"author": "Erik Johnson",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T06:01:46",
"content": "why ... | 1,760,374,844.47881 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/thermal-panorama-one-pixel-at-a-time/ | Thermal Panorama One Pixel At A Time | James Hobson | [
"hardware",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"atmega328",
"camera",
"Melexis",
"motor",
"panorama",
"rotary",
"sensor",
"Thermal",
"thermopile"
] | Inspiration can strike from the strangest places. Unearthing a forgotten Melexis MLX90614 thermopile from his ‘inbox,’ [Saulius Lukse] used it to build a
panoramic thermal camera
.
[Lukse] made use of an ATmega328 to control the thermal sensor, and used the project to test a pair of two rotary stage motors he designed... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550254",
"author": "CRImier",
"timestamp": "2017-05-03T01:13:17",
"content": "I do have one of these sensors. Ijust would actually have an use for a thermal camera, and so it seems just renting one would be much much cheaper than bulding this one. That said, it’s a hack!",
"par... | 1,760,374,844.11413 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/robotic-glockenspiel-and-hacked-hdds-make-music/ | Robotic Glockenspiel And Hacked HDD’s Make Music | Jack Laidlaw | [
"digital audio hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"digital music",
"hard drive speaker",
"mechanical music",
"robot",
"robot musician",
"robotic glockspiel",
"robotics"
] | [bd594] likes to make strange objects. This time it’s a
robotic glockenspiel and hacked HDD
‘s. [bd594] is no stranger to Hackaday either, as we have featured many of his past projects before including
the useless candle
or recreating the song
Funky town from Old Junk
.
His latest project is quite exciting. He has inco... | 12 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550122",
"author": "Frank Buss",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T20:27:36",
"content": "Nice work, but “Crazy Frog”? Come on, the original Axel F from Harold Faltermeyer is much better compared to the stupid frog cover:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz6MXal3ylY",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,374,844.164412 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/hackaday-prize-entry-eeg-seizure-detection/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Seizure Detection By EEG | Lewin Day | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"eeg",
"epilepsy",
"mindwave",
"neurosky",
"seizure",
"seizure alarm"
] | For those that suffer them, seizures are a dangerous thing. Outside the neurological effects, there is always the possibility of injury from the surrounding environment as well – consider the dangers of having a seizure near a busy road, or even simply a glass table. Some detection methods exist for seizure sufferers, ... | 13 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550133",
"author": "toby",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T20:44:32",
"content": "The headset already has bluetooth capability so why does one need an external bluetooth module and Arduino to talk to a cell phone? Why not just go from headset to cell phone and let the cell phone do the an... | 1,760,374,844.939404 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/scope-review-keysight-1000-x-series/ | Scope Review: Keysight 1000 X-Series | Adil Malik | [
"Featured",
"Reviews",
"Slider"
] | [
"1000-X",
"1000X",
"Keysight",
"oscilloscope",
"review",
"scope"
] | A few weeks ago
we published an article on the newly released Keysight 1000X,
an oscilloscope that marks
Keysight’s late but welcome entry
into the hacker-centric entry-level market. Understandably, this scope is causing a lot of excitement as it promises to bring some of the high-end pedigree of the well-known 2000X a... | 73 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "3550033",
"author": "Yann Guidon / YGDES",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T17:32:31",
"content": "s/viola/voilà/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3550037",
"author": "Adil Malik",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T17:36:18",
... | 1,760,374,845.062193 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/have-chainsaw-will-travel/ | Have Chainsaw, Will Travel | James Hobson | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"chainsaw",
"gear",
"motor",
"reduction",
"tricycle",
"welding"
] | What’s the worst thing that could happen if you strapped a chainsaw motor to a tricycle? Turns out the worst that happened to [ThisDustin] and his friends is that it turned out
hilariously awesome
.
This aptly-named ‘chainsawtrike’ isn’t much in the way of comfort, so a pair of foot pegs had to be welded onto the front... | 31 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3549969",
"author": "John Lightner",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T15:46:24",
"content": "Love the Flintstone brakes",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3549973",
"author": "dynamodan",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T15:48:21",
"co... | 1,760,374,845.126757 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/is-intels-management-engine-broken/ | Is Intel’s Management Engine Broken? | Brian Benchoff | [
"Current Events",
"Featured",
"News",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"intel",
"Intel Active Management Technology",
"Intel Management Engine",
"Intel ME",
"security"
] | Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states, “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” This law remains unassailable. However, recent claims have called into question a black box hidden deep inside every Intel chipset produced in the last decade.
Yesterday, on the Semiaccurate blog, [Charlie ... | 78 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "3549914",
"author": "Joshua Terrell",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T14:23:45",
"content": "Yes.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3549921",
"author": "not a space lizard",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T14:30:39",
"content": "Why... | 1,760,374,845.255135 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/want-gesture-tracking-all-you-have-to-do-is-lift-your-finger/ | Want Gesture-Tracking? All You Have To Do Is Lift Your Finger. | James Hobson | [
"Android Hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"dlp",
"finger",
"light sensor",
"MKR1000",
"motion",
"projector",
"tracking"
] | Watching Tony Stark wave his hands to manipulate projected constructs is an ever-approaching reality — at least in terms of gesture-tracking. Lift — a prototype built by a team from UC Irvine and FX Palo Alto Laboratory — is able to
track up to ten fingers with 1.7 mm accuracy
!
Lift’s gesture-tracking is achieved by u... | 12 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3549827",
"author": "Alex S.",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T12:52:20",
"content": "What is the benefit of this over something like Leap 3D motion control system, which can track motion to around 0.01mm accuracy?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"... | 1,760,374,845.482133 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/02/restoring-a-japanese-oscilloscope/ | Restoring A Japanese Oscilloscope | Al Williams | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"Kikusui",
"oscilloscope",
"tube",
"valve",
"vintage"
] | Oscilloscopes have come a long way. Today’s scope is more likely to look like a tablet than an old tube-based instrument. Still, there’s something about looking into a glowing green tube, especially if you’ve done the work to resurrect that old hollow state device. [NFM] picked up a Kikusui OP-31C–a vintage Japanese sc... | 5 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3549554",
"author": "cyberteque",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T08:31:17",
"content": "that looks a t it working, along with lot like an old EICO scope I had, the 1S2 rectifier tube had failed, we gave up trying to get it going, along with a few others with the same fault.",
"parent_... | 1,760,374,845.521035 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/stm32-analog-converter-phase-noise/ | STM32 Analog Converter Phase Noise | Al Williams | [
"ARM",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"adc",
"analog digital converter",
"arm",
"narrowband rf",
"phase noise",
"PLL",
"stm32"
] | [Avian] has been using STM32 ARM processors to sample RF for a variety of applications. At first, he was receiving relatively wide TV signals. Recently, though, he’s started dealing with very narrow signals and he found that
his samples had a lot of spread in the frequency domain that he didn’t expect
.
What followed w... | 13 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3549485",
"author": "Marcus",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T08:09:20",
"content": "Hey, small correction (by the way, how to reach out to the editors for those? Do it here? Feels a bit like spam. But there’s no email address to do it directly?):He was not first receiving relatively wideT... | 1,760,374,845.574847 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/honey-when-did-we-get-an-indoor-pool/ | Honey, When Did We Get An Indoor Pool? | Jamie Navarro | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"flood",
"plumbing",
"smart home"
] | Is it too much to ask for a home to have a little ‘smart’
built-in
? If you’ve ever woken up (or come home) to your dwelling being flooded, you’ll know how terrible it feels, how long it can take to recover from, and how stressful it can be. Yeah, it’s happened to us before, so we really feel for [David Schneider]. He ... | 47 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "3549339",
"author": "Guyfromhe",
"timestamp": "2017-05-02T02:09:34",
"content": "I hade trouble with a stuck check valve and rain, but never from my pipes/appliances… I’ve since added water monitoring with simple wires and screws connected to a raspi… Tested with a cup of water, wor... | 1,760,374,845.712082 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/adding-a-debugger-to-a-teensy-3-53-6/ | Adding A Debugger To A Teensy 3.5/3.6 | Inderpreet Singh | [
"ARM",
"Slider"
] | [
"debugger",
"j-link",
"jtag",
"Teensy"
] | The Teensy is a powerful ARM-based development board with loads of features that can do fun stuff with USB as well. Like many dev boards, it uses a less powerful processor as an interface. Teensy designer [Paul Stoffregen] added a debug header to allow direct SWD JTAG access to the main chip, but the interface microcon... | 23 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3549273",
"author": "Clovis Fritzen",
"timestamp": "2017-05-01T23:39:06",
"content": "I have not been following PJRC since Teensy LC (great product, by the way!), but it is hard to believe that debugging is not one of the very first things to be added to such a product family; speci... | 1,760,374,845.631781 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/the-raspberry-pi-becomes-a-scsi-device/ | The Raspberry Pi Becomes A SCSI Device | Brian Benchoff | [
"classic hacks",
"Raspberry Pi",
"Slider"
] | [
"cdrom",
"ide",
"raspberry pi",
"Raspi",
"scsi",
"X68000"
] | SCSI devices were found in hundreds of different models of computers from the 80s, from SUN boxes to cute little Macs. These hard drives and CDROMs are slowly dying, and with that goes an entire generation of technology down the drain. Currently, the best method of preserving these computers with SCSI drives is the SCS... | 90 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "3549154",
"author": "Larry Vrooman",
"timestamp": "2017-05-01T20:30:33",
"content": "We can probably blame Adaptec for the slow decline of this wonderful interface. They tried to dominate the market, like IBM, bought out competitors and kept prices high.",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,374,845.95343 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/hackaday-prize-entry-hacker-calculus/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Hacker Calculus | Jenny List | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"calculus",
"Hackaday Prize",
"Isaac Newton",
"newton"
] | Mathematics, as it is taught in schools, sometimes falls short in its mission to educate the pupils. This is the view of [Joan Horvath] and [Rich Cameron], particularly with respect to the teaching of calculus, which they feel has become a purely algebraic discipline that leaves many students in the cold when it comes ... | 42 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3549060",
"author": "Greg A",
"timestamp": "2017-05-01T18:53:25",
"content": "meh, your basic calculus for non-majors class always uses geometric examples — calculating the slope of a line, or the area under a curve. newton’s specific approach is impenetrably awful for education. ... | 1,760,374,846.032915 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/a-brief-history-of-radioactivity/ | A Brief History Of Radioactivity | Manuel Rodriguez-Achach | [
"Curated",
"History",
"Original Art"
] | [
"nuclear",
"radiation",
"radioactivity",
"radioisotope",
"radium girls"
] | More than one hundred years ago, Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium emitted penetrating rays similar to those used by Wilhelm Röntgen to take the first X-ray image (of his wife’s hand), starting a new era of far-reaching applications. There are of course many dangers that come with the use of radioactivity, but th... | 58 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548999",
"author": "nsayer",
"timestamp": "2017-05-01T17:11:22",
"content": "It’s a terrible shame that we seemingly haven’t learned the correct lessons from TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima. We don’t need to stop using nuclear power. We need to stop doing so with ridiculously dangerou... | 1,760,374,846.229785 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/iut-iot/ | IuT ! IoT | Mike Szczys | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Original Art",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"connected devices",
"IuT ! IoT"
] | Let’s build the Internet of
USEFUL
Things, not just the Internet of Things.
IuT ! IoT
That’s what we’ll be doing over the next five weeks. The second challenge of the
2017 Hackaday Prize
begins today. We’re looking for the best ideas we can find for useful connected devices. Twenty entries will recieve $1,000 and move ... | 48 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548976",
"author": "Yeah",
"timestamp": "2017-05-01T16:36:43",
"content": "Make it sohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHevGGYuAsw",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3548983",
"author": "davi jordan",
"timestamp": "2017-05-0... | 1,760,374,846.118666 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/another-california-water-crisis/ | Another California Water Crisis | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Current Events",
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"Slider"
] | [
"cavitation",
"infrastructure",
"Oroville Dam",
"spillway"
] | It’s no secret that a vast amount of American infrastructure is in great need of upgrades, repairs or replacements. The repairs that are desperately needed will come, and they will come in one of two ways. Either proactive repairs can be made when problems are first discovered, or repairs can be made at considerably gr... | 69 | 20 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548917",
"author": "tom",
"timestamp": "2017-05-01T14:25:38",
"content": "That’s a lot of water.In the main pic, it looks like the water is climbing quite high up the walls of the spillway in the in-tact section. Why is it doing that? You may have to zoom in to see it.",
"paren... | 1,760,374,846.352704 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/new-part-day-the-239-pi-clone/ | New Part Day: The $239 Pi Clone | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"arm",
"HiKey 960",
"New Part Day",
"raspberry pi"
] | Linaro has announced a new
ARM-based single board computer
.
The HiKey 960, built in collaboration with 96Boards, gives the user 4 ARM Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.4GHz, 4 ARM Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8 GHz, a Mali GPU (ugh), 32GB of Flash storage, 3GB of LPDDR4, HDMI 1.2, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB 3.0 type A, PCIe on... | 72 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548824",
"author": "localhost",
"timestamp": "2017-05-01T11:32:33",
"content": "Assertion: “sbc->price” out of range (in function checkNewSBC(thing_t * sbc) called from parseHaDPosts(void))Application halted, see just_buy_another_pi.log for details.",
"parent_id": null,
"de... | 1,760,374,846.508926 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/01/portable-bluetooth-speaker-reacts-to-sound/ | Portable Bluetooth Speaker Reacts To Sound | Adam Fabio | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"neopixel",
"portable",
"speaker"
] | [IanMeyer123] should be working on his senior design project. Instead, he’s
created a sound-reactive Bluetooth speaker
that may not earn him an A grade but will at least keep the team entertained.
[Ian] started with the amp and power. The amp is a 15 watt, 12 volt model based on the popular TDA7297 chip. Power comes fr... | 11 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548802",
"author": "cappie2000",
"timestamp": "2017-05-01T10:31:20",
"content": "it could be just me, but the speaker sounded really shitty…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3548813",
"author": "notarealemail",
... | 1,760,374,846.402074 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/30/printing-bed-off-kilter-blu-tack-to-the-rescue/ | Printing Bed Off-Kilter? Blu-Tack To The Rescue! | James Hobson | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d",
"bed",
"Blu-Tack",
"blue",
"delta",
"level",
"printer",
"printing",
"Tack"
] | For all their applications, 3D printers can be finicky machines. From extruder problems, misaligned or missing layers, to finding an overnight print turned into a tangled mess, and that’s all assuming your printer bed is perfectly leveled. [Ricardo de Azambuja’s] new linear delta printer was frustrating him. No matter ... | 9 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548713",
"author": "Saabman",
"timestamp": "2017-05-01T06:46:24",
"content": "Reminds me of my first mounting system for the bed of my printer.Rubber feet were attached to the frame and the glass bed stuck on to the feet with hot melt glue.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,846.607992 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/30/little-ebay-tesla-coil-gets-an-upgrade/ | Little EBay Tesla Coil Gets An Upgrade | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"arc",
"coil winder",
"high voltage",
"plasma",
"Slayer",
"tank circuit",
"tesla coil"
] | Like so many of the projects we feature, this one started with a cheap eBay module purchase. In this case, it was a little Tesla coil that made decent sized arcs but wasn’t quite good enough. The result was
a super-sized solid state Tesla coil
with better results and room to grow.
As [GreatScott!] discovered, the littl... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548697",
"author": "PWalsh",
"timestamp": "2017-05-01T06:00:25",
"content": "I’m just now in the middle of designing a dielectric heater, which is essentially a tesla coil.A 6-turn primary to a 1200-turn secondary is 1:200 ratio, and if he uses 12 volts that makes 2400 volts at the... | 1,760,374,846.66078 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/30/hackaday-links-april-30-2017/ | Hackaday Links: April 30, 2017 | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"beaglebone",
"FliteFest",
"flitetest",
"Hacker News is trash",
"Monoprice",
"Octavo Systems",
"Pocketbone",
"SEFF",
"stipplegen",
"Trump"
] | This last week was
SEFF
, a week of electric-powered remote-controlled aircraft above 1700 feet of Bermuda grass in the middle of Georgia. [Damon Atwood] has been bringing his 16-foot-wingspan Emmaselle to SEFF for a few years now, and this year we’re getting
a great video of the flight
. This is, or was at one time, t... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548562",
"author": "chibill",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T23:50:00",
"content": "How can using trump as a verb cause problem… What type of world do we live in now.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3548579",
"author": "notareale... | 1,760,374,846.559958 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/30/hackaday-prize-entry-high-speed-sampling-for-the-raspberry-pi/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: High Speed Sampling For The Raspberry Pi | Jenny List | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"adc",
"Hackaday Prize",
"raspberry pi",
"raspberry pi adc"
] | The Raspberry Pi has become a firm favorite in our community for its array of GPIOs and other interfaces, as well as its affordable computing power. Unfortunately though despite those many pins, there is a glaring omission in its interfacing capabilities. It lacks an analogue-to-digital converter, so analog inputs have... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548412",
"author": "halherta",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T20:30:42",
"content": "There’s a really cool writeup (Daniel Pelikan) on interfacing a CA3306 ADC to a raspberry Pi and writing an actual linux device driver for it in the 24th Edition of the MagPihttps://www.raspberrypi.org/m... | 1,760,374,846.993648 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/30/vintage-vending-machine-makes-the-perfect-gift/ | Vintage Vending Machine Makes The Perfect Gift | Inderpreet Singh | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"repair",
"vending machine"
] | Nothing says ‘I Love You’ like an old vending machine, and if it is a
restored and working vintage Vendo V-80 cola dispenser
then you have yourself a winner. [Jan Cumps] from Belgium was assigned the repair of the device in question by a friend. He started off with just a working refrigerator and no electronics. In a s... | 10 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548228",
"author": "Dennis M.",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T17:20:33",
"content": "I want a Nuka Cola vending machine",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3548231",
"author": "notarealemail",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T... | 1,760,374,846.76707 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/30/ti-994a-weather-station/ | TI 99/4A Weather Station | Al Williams | [
"classic hacks",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"retrocomputing",
"TI-99/4A",
"tms9900",
"weather station",
"xbee"
] | If you still have a drawer full of slap bracelets from the 1990s because, you know, they might come back, then you’ll appreciate [Vorticon’s] latest project. Sure, we see lots of weather stations, but
this one
is controlled by a TI 99/4A computer. This home computer from the 1980s was actually ahead of its time with a ... | 21 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548135",
"author": "Erik Christiansen",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T14:29:32",
"content": "At the time, it was a ripper, and the big 64 pin DIP was impressive. The TMS9900 instruction set also included a register-programmable single-instruction 16 bit rotate, using a barrel-shifter. T... | 1,760,374,846.821122 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/30/u-s-air-force-is-going-to-get-hacked/ | U.S Air Force Is Going To Get Hacked | Jack Laidlaw | [
"contests"
] | [
"Air Force",
"bug bounty",
"computer hacking",
"D.O.D",
"penetration testing",
"US Government"
] | [HackerOne] has announced that US Dept of Defense (DoD) has decided to run their biggest bug bounty program ever,
Hack the Air force
.
You may remember last year there was the
Hack the Pentagon
bug bounty program, Well this year on the coattails of last year’s success the DoD has decided to run an even bigger program t... | 24 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3548012",
"author": "LOL",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T11:13:26",
"content": "Or join the cheese of the month club, I am sure our tax revenue can buy an IT expert’s time.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Cheese_market_Basel.jpg",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,... | 1,760,374,847.108069 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/30/afroman-makes-a-uhf-oscillator-from-a-potato/ | Afroman Makes A UHF Oscillator From A Potato | Jenny List | [
"Parts"
] | [
"74 logic",
"7404",
"afroman",
"potato semi",
"ring oscillator"
] | If you have ever worked with simple logic gates, there is a good chance that at some point you will have built a ring oscillator from a chain of inverters. With the addition of a resistor and a capacitor, you can easily make a square wave oscillator up into the megahertz range with standard logic chips.
[Afroman] recei... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3547928",
"author": "RÖB",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T08:17:43",
"content": "Before anyone jumps in and complains about the title, I want to say I love some of the imaginative titles I see here.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3... | 1,760,374,847.047136 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/29/the-mother-of-all-belt-grinders/ | The Mother Of All Belt Grinders | Adam Fabio | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"belt grinder",
"grinder",
"knife",
"metalworking",
"welding"
] | It seems like everyone is building belt grinders these days. You might think [Jeremy Schmidt] is just hoping on the bandwagon, but you’d be wrong. He took a full two years to design the perfect belt grinder for his needs.
Now he’s built his perfect beast
, and we must say, it’s quite impressive!
[Jeremy] had seen grind... | 33 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "3547850",
"author": "Internet",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T05:21:49",
"content": "VFD on a belt grinder. Nice.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3547870",
"author": "notarealemail",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T06:11:00",
"c... | 1,760,374,847.324472 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/29/a-led-strip-clock-as-linear-as-time/ | A LED Strip Clock As Linear As Time | James Hobson | [
"ATtiny Hacks",
"clock hacks"
] | [
"ds1307",
"eagle",
"KiCAD",
"led",
"strip",
"ws2812"
] | We love custom clocks here at Hackaday, and are always thrilled to see each inventive means of time-keeping. In a seldom-seen take on the familiar device, the [Bastel Brothers]’s
LED Strip Clock’s
sleek profile finds itself in good company.
The clock is a two-metre strip of 60 LEDs; every minute past the current hour c... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3547772",
"author": "echodelta",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T03:09:24",
"content": "When is cocktail hour?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3547786",
"author": "CMH62",
"timestamp": "2017-04-30T03:32:19",
"... | 1,760,374,847.377538 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/29/linger-keeps-you-around-after-youve-gone/ | Linger Keeps You Around After You’ve Gone | Elliot Williams | [
"Cellphone Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"invasive",
"privacy",
"probe requests",
"raspberry pi",
"retail",
"ssid"
] | We’re not sure if this is art, anti-snooping guerilla warfare, or just a cheeky hack, but we do know that we like it! [Jasper van Loenen]’s
Linger
keeps the SSIDs that your cell phone (for example) spits out whenever it’s not connected to a WiFi network, and replays them after you’re gone.
Some retail stores and other ... | 40 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3547679",
"author": "Leithoa",
"timestamp": "2017-04-29T23:07:52",
"content": ">>>Did you know that you were buying into this when you enabled “location services”? Did the tracking firms ask you if that was ok? Of course not. What are you going to do about it?They did ask, most peop... | 1,760,374,847.615215 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/29/hackaday-prize-an-autonomous-beach-art-robot/ | Hackaday Prize: An Autonomous Beach Art Robot | Dan Maloney | [
"Robots Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"art",
"beach",
"comb",
"pattern",
"rake",
"sand"
] | Some people find it hard to look at a huge, flat expanse of floor or ground and not see a canvas. From the outfield grass of a baseball park to some poor farmer’s wheat field, trampling, trimming or painting patterns can present an irresistible temptation. But the larger the canvas the more challenging the composition ... | 28 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3547549",
"author": "John Rockefeller",
"timestamp": "2017-04-29T20:23:19",
"content": "Those turns could use some improvement. Pretty neat project.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3549421",
"author": "Pierrock",
... | 1,760,374,847.437767 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/29/the-connected-calculator-with-esp8266/ | The Connected Calculator With ESP8266 | Inderpreet Singh | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"calculator hack",
"casio",
"ESP8266"
] | Calculator hacks have been around for a while now and we have seen the most action around the Texas Instruments TI-83 and TI-84. When [johnkimdinh] found a way to
add an ESP8266 to a scientific calculator
(
machine translation
) and this time around it’s a Kenko FX-82M calculator which appears eerily similar to the Cas... | 12 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3547415",
"author": "Jack Laidlaw",
"timestamp": "2017-04-29T17:09:58",
"content": "Cool Hack, I wonder if this could be upgraded a bit and connected to something like Wolfram Alpha and if so is there a similar open source alternative to Wolfram?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth"... | 1,760,374,847.490773 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/29/simple-range-testing-for-lora-modules/ | Simple Range Testing For LoRa Modules | Lewin Day | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"gps",
"LoRa",
"radio",
"range",
"range test"
] | WiFi and Bluetooth have their use cases, but both have certain demands on things like battery life and authentication that make them unsuitable for a lot of low-power use cases. They’re also quite limited in range. There are other standards out there more suitable for low-power and wide area work, and thankfully, LoRa ... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3547257",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2017-04-29T14:44:34",
"content": "4 miles, not bad. Which data rate and which modulation was being used?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3547315",
"author": "Truth",
... | 1,760,374,847.539892 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/retrotechtacular-farming-implements-in-1932/ | Retrotechtacular: Farming Implements In 1932 | Kristina Panos | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Retrotechtacular"
] | [
"agriculture",
"farm machinery",
"farming",
"john deere",
"public domain",
"textbook"
] | Few people would deny that farming is hard work. It always has been, and it probably always will be no matter how fancy the equipment gets. In 1932, farming was especially grueling. There was widespread drought throughout the United States, which gave rise to dust bowl conditions. As if those two things weren’t bad eno... | 28 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546475",
"author": "Rick",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T17:08:42",
"content": "if only producers of food were as “over”valued as tech bros making yet another smartphone app with the same functions as other apps, or a “disruptive” ad slinging social media platform.Not sure if any societ... | 1,760,374,847.684351 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/72-hours-to-design-your-concept/ | 72 Hours To Design Your Concept | Mike Szczys | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"Design Your Concept"
] | The first challenge of the
2017 Hackaday Prize
closes on this coming Monday morning. You have about 72 hours hours to submit your entry.
The challenge,
called
Design Your Concept,
is really about a plan. Seeing a project through depends greatly on your ability to foresee where the pain points are. Will you get half way... | 11 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546468",
"author": "Drone",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T17:01:52",
"content": "Once again, I’m suffering from Hackaday Prize Fatigue (HaDPF) syndrome :-(But IMO it’s better this year compared with previous IMO. It feels like there are more posts in-between the HaD Prize flood stuff. A... | 1,760,374,847.730021 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/im-a-tricorder-not-a-doctor-jim/ | I’m A Tricorder, Not A Doctor, Jim! | James Hobson | [
"Medical Hacks"
] | [
"artificial",
"Diagnose",
"Disease",
"doctor",
"Intelligence",
"medicine",
"star",
"trek",
"tricorder"
] | Machine learning and automated technologies are poised to disrupt employment in many industries — looking at you autonomous vehicles — and medicine is not immune to this encroachment. The Qualcomm Tricorder competition run by the X-Prize foundation has just wrapped, naming [Final Frontier Medical Devices]’s DxtER the c... | 14 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546354",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T15:03:03",
"content": "Star Trek has inspired a lot of people. Terminator, not so much.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3546378",
"author": "Noirwhal",
"... | 1,760,374,847.780881 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hands-on-with-the-pinebook/ | Hands On With The Pinebook | Alasdair Allan | [
"ARM",
"Featured",
"Slider",
"Teardown"
] | [
"64-bit ARM",
"Allwinner",
"Allwinner A64",
"ARM Laptop",
"laptop",
"Pine",
"Pine64",
"Pinebook",
"teardown"
] | The Pine A64 was a 64-bit Quad-Core Single Board Computer which was
kickstarted at the tail end of 2015
for delivery in the middle of 2016. Costing just $15, and hailed as a “Raspberry Pi killer,” the board raised $1.7 million from 36,000 backers. It shipped to its backers to almost universally
poor reviews
.
Now they’... | 101 | 28 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546307",
"author": "ScriptGiddy",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T14:25:03",
"content": "I’m in. the price is right and ive been looking for a cheap small ARM laptop for a while thats well documented and has a few OS options. Its not perfect…but at $89 its well worth the risk. for the rec... | 1,760,374,847.983909 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/low-cost-drift-buoy-plies-the-atlantic-for-nearly-a-year/ | Low-cost Drift Buoy Plies The Atlantic For Nearly A Year | Dan Maloney | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"accelerometer",
"ais",
"Arduino Trinket",
"buoy",
"drift",
"gps",
"hydrology",
"iridium",
"sensing",
"telemetry"
] | Put a message in a bottle and toss it in the ocean, and if you’re very lucky, years later you might get a response. Drop
a floating Arduino-fied buoy
into the ocean and if you’ve engineered it well, it may send data back to you for even longer.
At least that’s what [Wayne] has learned since his MDBuoyProject went live ... | 34 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546141",
"author": "tomás zerolo",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T11:16:54",
"content": "Meh.TFA is one of those pages which turn up blank when Javascript is disabled. From time to time I actually look into such a page’s source… and I’m happy each time that I *do* disable Javascript.Lots... | 1,760,374,848.255507 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/air-powered-wheelchair-goes-like-the-wind/ | Air-Powered Wheelchair Goes Like The Wind | Lewin Day | [
"Medical Hacks"
] | [
"air",
"air power",
"compressed air",
"WheelChair"
] | Electric wheelchairs are responsible for giving back independence to a great many people the world over. They do have their limitations, however, including long recharge times and a general aversion to large amounts of water. Being weatherproof is one thing, but taking one to a waterpark is another thing entirely. Fear... | 53 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "3545931",
"author": "alizardx",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T08:32:09",
"content": "The motors from air-drive power tools might be suitable for experimental purposes,and buying them at Harbor Freight (lots of types, speeds, power levels, hoses, connectors) lowers the cost of entry.",
... | 1,760,374,848.181657 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/hackaday-prize-bring-a-hack-at-make-munich-next-week/ | Hackaday Prize Bring-a-Hack At Make Munich Next Week! | Elliot Williams | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"Bring A Hack",
"free beer",
"make munich",
"the hackaday prize"
] | Attention Europe! Next weekend, May 6th and 7th, is
Make Munich
. Hackaday wants to help you warm up with a Bring-a-Hack party on Friday, May 5th from 20:30 and on at the
Munich local branch
of the Chaos Computer Club.
Immediately following build-up for exhibitors at Make Munich, head on over to Schleißheimer Str. 41 (... | 10 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3545826",
"author": "Gentleman Nerd",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T07:31:34",
"content": "“is entirely volunteer-run” not entirely true, Martin is our CEO and full time employee and we have another half time employee – rest is volunteers and we’re very grateful!",
"parent_id": null,... | 1,760,374,848.306477 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/29/logs-for-a-toilet/ | Logs For A Toilet | Brian Benchoff | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"digiStump",
"internet of things",
"terlet",
"toilet"
] | The Internet of Things, as originally envisioned in papers dating to the early to mid-90s, is a magical concept. Wearable devices would report your location, health stats, and physiological information to a private server. Cameras in your shower would tell your doctor if that mole is getting bigger. Your car would moni... | 47 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "3547137",
"author": "sneakypoo",
"timestamp": "2017-04-29T11:10:19",
"content": "Any time I see that classic 8266 shape I get PTSD like symptoms. That module is the bane of my existence, I’ve never gotten the bloody thing to work across two computers, about 5 different types of modu... | 1,760,374,848.948179 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/29/teensy-and-3d-printer-make-beautiful-music-together/ | Teensy And 3D Printer Make Beautiful Music Together | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"ARM",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"polyphonic",
"Teensy",
"Teensy Audio library"
] | [Otermrelik] wanted to experiment with the Teensy audio library and adapter. That, combined with his 3D printer, led to a very cool looking build of the
teensypolysynth
. The device looks like a little mini soundboard with sliders and 3D printed knobs. You can see (and hear) it in the video below.
The Teensy audio libr... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546938",
"author": "codifies",
"timestamp": "2017-04-29T08:42:15",
"content": "no see – when I read the title I thought cool making music with a 3d printer (ie like a bunch of floppy drives making music)but I gotta say what a neat looking (and sounding) project…",
"parent_id": ... | 1,760,374,848.430309 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/a-do-not-disturb-digital-assistant/ | A ‘Do Not Disturb’ Digital Assistant | James Hobson | [
"Misc Hacks",
"Software Development"
] | [
"Assistant",
"Booking",
"development",
"Interruption",
"meeting",
"schedule",
"software",
"work"
] | Flow requires a certain amount of focus, and when that concentration is broken by pesky colleagues, work can suffer, on top of time wasted attempting to re-engage with the task at hand. The Technical Lead in [
Estera Dezelak
]’s office got fed up with being interrupted, and needed his own
personal assistant
to ward off... | 25 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546871",
"author": "BrightBlueJim",
"timestamp": "2017-04-29T05:25:47",
"content": "So the hack is using this meeting room scheduling product that you’re promoting, for his own office? Instead of a meeting room? That’s crazy!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies"... | 1,760,374,848.381419 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/an-alien-themed-cuckoo-clock/ | An Alien-Themed…Cuckoo Clock? | Jenny List | [
"clock hacks"
] | [
"alien",
"clock",
"cuckoo clock",
"movie prop"
] | If you are a follower of the sci-fi horror film genre then it is likely that you will be familiar with the
Alien
series of movies. Images of Sigourney Weaver bearing a significant amount of firepower, or of John Hurt’s chest being rent asunder by an emerging creature will be brought to mind, it’s one of those franchise... | 17 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546791",
"author": "imayoda",
"timestamp": "2017-04-29T02:04:29",
"content": "omg! ahahhaha",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3546801",
"author": "scott t",
"timestamp": "2017-04-29T02:21:48",
"content":... | 1,760,374,851.425843 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/manual-lcd-makes-information-display-tedious-educational/ | Manual LCD Makes Information Display Tedious, Educational | Bob Baddeley | [
"how-to",
"Parts"
] | [
"character based LCD",
"character lcd",
"hd44780",
"hitachhd44780",
"lcd",
"lcd controller",
"lcd display"
] | The HD44780 is one of the first chips we learned about as a kid, and chances are good you’ve used one in your project at some point, and almost certain that you’ve interacted with one in your life. The character LCD is ubiquitous, easy to interface, and very robust. They come in sizes from 8 x 1 to 20 x 4 and even larg... | 28 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546717",
"author": "Redhatter (VK4MSL)",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T23:48:20",
"content": "Two words: Switch Bounce!!!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3546731",
"author": "Bobby Housley",
"timestamp": "2017-04-2... | 1,760,374,850.9919 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/a-home-made-air-pump-from-pvc-pipe/ | A Home Made Air Pump From PVC Pipe | Jenny List | [
"Tech Hacks"
] | [
"piston pump",
"pump",
"pvc-pipe"
] | If you need a supply of low pressure air – let’s say enough pressure to ensure a constant supply but not enough to describe as “Compressed air” with a straight face – what do you do? Many people will reach for an aquarium pump, after all that represents a readily available and relatively inexpensive source of bubbles.
... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546617",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T20:30:48",
"content": "i am wondering if any piston slap will result in friction that will fuse the piston with the cylinder.Neat hack!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3546630"... | 1,760,374,850.681079 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/28/hackaday-prize-entry-a-double-action-keyboard/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: A Double Action Keyboard | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"cherry mx",
"cherry switches",
"mechanical keyboard"
] | Mechanical keyboards are the
in
thing right now and building your own is at least two extra levels of nerd cred.
This project
, entered in the Hackaday Prize, is a DIY keyboard unlike you’ve ever seen. It is a fundamental shift in the ideas of how a computer keyboard can work. It’s a double action keyboard. Press a key... | 31 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3546550",
"author": "oodain",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T18:35:23",
"content": "this would be awesome for capitalization",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3546583",
"author": "ModeratelyMotiviated",
"timestamp": "2... | 1,760,374,850.747454 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/sous-vide-arduino-isnt-lost-in-translation/ | Sous Vide Arduino Isn’t Lost In Translation | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"cooking",
"cusine",
"danish",
"epicurian",
"gastronomy",
"sous-vide"
] | If your idea of a six-course meal is a small order of chicken nuggets, you might have missed the rise of sous vide among cooks. The idea is you seal food in a plastic pouch and then cook it in a water bath that is held at a precise temperature. That temperature is much lower than you usually use, so the cook times are ... | 27 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3545397",
"author": "Internet",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T05:13:12",
"content": "Interesting mix of working machine yet and the time spent to fabricate an enclosure yet still using a breadboard. Unclear why a PID wasn’t used exactly? They are so cheap these days.What kind of risks ar... | 1,760,374,850.811207 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/the-deal-with-trash-plastic-all-you-need-is-bugs/ | To Deal With Plastic Trash, All You Need Is Bugs | Dan Maloney | [
"chemistry hacks",
"green hacks"
] | [
"bioremediation",
"caterpillar",
"Galleria mellonella",
"grocery bag",
"larvae",
"moth",
"PE",
"PETE",
"plastic",
"polyethylene",
"polyethylene terephthalate",
"wax moth"
] | Outlawed now in some places, or only available to tote your purchases at a ridiculous premium, the billions of “T-shirt” bags used every year present a serious waste management problem. Whether blowing across the landscape like synthetic tumbleweeds, floating in the ocean as ersatz jellyfish, or clogging up municipal w... | 24 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3545280",
"author": "Leithoa",
"timestamp": "2017-04-28T03:07:42",
"content": "This is certainly a stepping stone but not entirely helpful in it’s current state.If we have the ability and will to collect every stray bag to feed to caterpillars it makes more sense to blend them with ... | 1,760,374,851.311132 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/stealing-cars-for-20-bucks/ | Stealing Cars For 20 Bucks | Pedro Umbelino | [
"car hacks",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"car",
"car hack",
"keyfob",
"keyless",
"passive keyless entry",
"security"
] | [Yingtao Zeng], [Qing Yang], and [Jun Li], a.k.a. the [UnicornTeam], developed the cheapest way so far to hack a passive keyless entry system, as found on some cars: around $22 in parts, give or take a buck. But that’s not all, they manage to increase the previous known effective range of this type of attack from 100 m... | 85 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "3545152",
"author": "BrightBlueJim",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T23:55:54",
"content": "“A suggested fix from the researchers is to decrease this 27 ms timeout. If it is short enough, at least the distance for these types of attacks is reduced.”Not likely to work. Radio waves cover a ... | 1,760,374,850.930427 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/help-wanted-open-source-oscilloscope-on-rigol-hardware/ | Help Wanted: Open Source Oscilloscope On Rigol Hardware | Al Williams | [
"ARM",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"open source",
"reverse engineering",
"rigol"
] | We’ve often heard (and said) if you can’t hack it, you don’t own it. We noticed that [tmbinc] has issued a call for help on his latest project: developing
new firmware and an FPGA configuration
for the Rigol DS1054Z and similar scopes. It isn’t close to completion, but it isn’t a pipe dream either. [tmbinc] has success... | 40 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3544882",
"author": "Dr.Tune",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T20:13:09",
"content": "I came here thinking “that sounds like a ridiculously overambitious idea that’ll never get anywhere” … and then I saw tmbinc is behind it. – I take it all back!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,374,851.065175 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/assistive-technology-pioneer-patrick-joyce-has-passed-away/ | Assistive Technology Pioneer Patrick Joyce Has Passed Away | Mike Szczys | [
"News"
] | [
"assistive technolgy",
"ele",
"eyedrivomatic",
"Patrick Joyce",
"WheelChair"
] | We are once again saddened to report the loss of another great hacker.
Patrick Joyce has passed away
after a decade-long struggle with ALS/MND. Patrick was the team captain of
Eyedriveomatic
, the Grand Prize winning hardware from the 2015 Hackaday Prize. The loss of Patrick comes quickly after receiving word on Monday... | 22 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3544794",
"author": "Jack Laidlaw",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T19:30:49",
"content": "So sorry to hear this and shocked at the passing of both Steve & Patrick in such a short space of time. True game changers, condolence’s to both families I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that y... | 1,760,374,851.370992 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/hackaday-prize-entry-an-automated-still/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: An Automated Still | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"alcohol",
"alcohol still",
"Still"
] | We’ve seen plenty of Arduinofied home brewing setups, and kegerators are a fairly standard project for the types of people we hang out with. What we haven’t seen a lot of are home stills. There are unfortunate reasons for this. First off, distilling alcohol is illegal in a few parts of the world if you don’t have a lic... | 27 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3544924",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T20:41:42",
"content": "But, but! Brass is a known carcinogen in the State of California!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3545042",
"author": "Chris J",
"time... | 1,760,374,851.124917 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/fundamentals-of-fingerprint-scanning/ | Fundamentals Of Fingerprint Scanning | Al Williams | [
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"fingerprint",
"sensor",
"smartphone"
] | Like most (if not all) Hackaday readers, I like to know how the technology I use works. I’m always amazed, for example, how many otherwise smart people have no idea how the cellphone network works other than “it’s a radio.” So now that I have two phones with fingerprint scanners on them, I decided I needed to know more... | 28 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3544670",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T17:50:42",
"content": "So, I’m guessing the fingerprint sensor on my Samsung is ultrasonic.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3544672",
"author": "notarealemail",
"timest... | 1,760,374,851.496422 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/friday-hack-chat-the-hackaday-prize/ | Friday Hack Chat: The Hackaday Prize | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"Hack Chat",
"Hackaday Prize"
] | Did you know Hackaday is hosting a fantastic contest to build hardware and software? It’s true!
The Hackaday Prize
will award hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hackaday community members for building the coolest hardware designed to make a difference in the world.
The Hackaday Prize has many ways to enter, focusing o... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,374,852.569242 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/cheap-and-easy-emergency-butane-stove/ | Cheap And Easy Emergency Butane Stove | Manuel Rodriguez-Achach | [
"classic hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"butane stove",
"fuel",
"stove",
"survival"
] | Homemade stoves are a very popular hack, you can find a zillion videos on YouTube, mostly on alcohol stoves, and they work great. Less common are butane fueled stoves, but [Thomas Kim] has uploaded a video on a super easy and cheap
butane stove
.
Like many other DIY stoves, the body is a soda aluminum can. After sealin... | 25 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3544529",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T15:40:44",
"content": "I could see this in a MacGyverish/end-of-the-world scenario.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3544545",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp... | 1,760,374,852.266945 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/osm-pronounced-awesome/ | OSM (Pronounced Awesome) Hardware Makes DNA In Space | Michael Uttmark | [
"chemistry hacks",
"Featured",
"Interest"
] | [
"bacteria",
"bacteria growth",
"dna",
"Oligonucleotide Synthesizer",
"OSM",
"PCR",
"polymerase chain reaction",
"space",
"space travel",
"synthetic biology"
] | OSM stands for Oligonucleotide Synthesizer designed for use in Microgravity, meaning that it’s a device that makes arbitrary DNA strands (of moderate length) in
space
. Cool eh? I’ve been working on this project for the last eight months with a wonderful team of fellow hackers as part of the Stanford Student Space Init... | 21 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3544474",
"author": "jarek319",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T14:08:26",
"content": "does it ever give you pause, that your project is treading dangerously close to Seed Theory territoryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,374,852.727649 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/how-to-use-siri-to-control-your-pc/ | Siri Controls Your PC Through Python And Gmail | Lewin Day | [
"iphone hacks"
] | [
"iphone",
"python",
"siri",
"voice",
"voice control",
"voice recognition"
] | Voice-based assistants are becoming more common on devices these days. Siri is known for being particularly good at responding to natural language and snarky responses. In comparison, Google’s Assistant is only capable of the most obvious commands, and this writer isn’t even sure Microsoft’s Cortana can understand Engl... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3544334",
"author": "codifies",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T11:48:14",
"content": "Oh no it doesn’t 2* corporations I *least* want in charge of my PC!https://xkcd.com/1807/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3544509",
"author": "l... | 1,760,374,852.401013 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/27/sexiest-tiny-metal-core-xy-3d-printer/ | Sexiest Tiny Metal Core-XY 3D Printer | Elliot Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printer",
"aluminum",
"CoreXY",
"watercooled"
] | That’s a lot of qualifications, but we’re pretty sure that you can’t accuse us of hyperbole in the title:
this is one of the tightest little 3D printer builds we’ve ever seen
. Add in the slightly esoteric
CoreXY
kinematics and the thick aluminum frame, and it’s a speed demon in addition to being a looker.
[René] had b... | 36 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3543865",
"author": "Arthur Wolf",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T08:14:11",
"content": "And of course it runs the Smoothie firmware :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3543942",
"author": "Nick",
"timestamp": "2017-0... | 1,760,374,852.116839 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/a-modern-day-pdp-11-front-end/ | A Modern Day PDP-11 Front End | Jenny List | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"beaglebone",
"DEC",
"DEC PDP-11",
"pdp-11"
] | Hands up if you feel your spiritual home is in front of a terminal with a “DIGITAL” logo on it. It’s a name that has long ago been subsumed into first Compaq and then by extension HP, but it’s one with a lot of history when it comes to computing.
From the start of the electronic computing age, there were the computers... | 26 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3543762",
"author": "Galane",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T05:38:58",
"content": "Gotta love the names of the companies that took their names directly from the product they made. Digital Equipment Corporation made digital equipment. VLSI made Very Large Scale Integration chipsets for IB... | 1,760,374,852.039313 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/fpgas-in-c-with-cynth/ | FPGAs In C With Cynth | Al Williams | [
"FPGA"
] | [
"c++",
"fpga",
"verilog"
] | Programming an FPGA with Verilog looks a lot like programming. But it isn’t, at least not in the traditional sense. There have been several systems that aim to take C code and convert it into a hardware description language. One of these,
cynth
, is simple to use and available on GitHub. You will need to install scala ... | 30 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3543661",
"author": "Absolutelyautomation",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T02:30:27",
"content": "I remember looong time ago with some Altera synthesizing tools, they way you program (specially asignations) could produce different internal resource allocations ( latches, gates, metal vias... | 1,760,374,852.467075 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/get-up-close-to-your-soldering-with-a-pi-zero-microscope/ | Get Up Close To Your Soldering With A Pi Zero Microscope | Dan Maloney | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"caliper",
"inspection",
"microcope",
"pi zero",
"PiCam",
"raspberry pi",
"soldering"
] | Do your Mark 1 Eyeballs no longer hold their own when it comes to fine work close up? Soldering can be a literal pain under such conditions, and even for the Elf-eyed among us, dealing with pads at a 0.4-mm pitch is probably best tackled with a little optical assistance. When the times comes for a little help, consider... | 57 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "3542680",
"author": "yetihehe",
"timestamp": "2017-04-26T08:11:03",
"content": "Nice, but when will someone invent something for shaking hands? I have no problem with seeing 0402 but keeping them in place and not nudging with my hands is another matter. I’ve seen manual pick and pla... | 1,760,374,852.20694 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/old-part-day-voltage-controlled-filters/ | Old Part Day: Voltage Controlled Filters | Brian Benchoff | [
"hardware",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"filter",
"VCF",
"vintage ICs"
] | For thirty years, the classic synths of the late 70s and early 80s could not be reproduced. Part of the reason for this is market forces — the synth heads of the 80s didn’t want last year’s gear. The other part for the impossibility to build new versions of these synths was the lack of parts. Synths such as the Prophet... | 57 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "3542583",
"author": "Bru",
"timestamp": "2017-04-26T05:29:11",
"content": "“and releasing it makes sense to spin up a new production line”Do you mean realising it?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3542656",
"author": "B... | 1,760,374,852.357456 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/look-at-me-with-your-special-animatronic-eyes/ | Look At Me With Your Special Animatronic Eyes | Adam Fabio | [
"classic hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"animatronic",
"arduino",
"eyes",
"robot"
] | Animatronics for movies is often about making something that works and is reliable in the short term. It doesn’t have to be pretty, it doesn’t have to last forever. [Corporate Sellout] shows us the minimalist approach to building
animatronics with this pair of special eyes
. These eyes move in both the pan and tilt. ... | 25 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3542522",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2017-04-26T02:29:26",
"content": "That’s actually really close to how the ligaments are attached in real eye balls, Impressive!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3542530",
"author": "... | 1,760,374,852.526857 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/error-lp0-on-%f0%9f%94%a5/ | Error: LP0 On ???? | Brian Benchoff | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"Covox",
"covox speech thing",
"LPT0",
"parallel port",
"r2r",
"resistor"
] | You don’t need fancy ICs and DACs to build a sound card for a PC. As [serdef]’s build over on hackaday.io shows, all you really need
is a bunch of resistors
. [serdef] built a clone of a sound card released for PC in the 80s, but with a few improvements. This mess of resistors features the best 8-bit sound you can get ... | 63 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3542400",
"author": "Steven Gann",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T23:08:25",
"content": "Very cool, and a creative solution indeed.Though I’ll bet with a few 555s, op-amps, and logic gates, you could do multi-channel FM synthesis just as cheaply. I’ve been working on a homebrew microcompu... | 1,760,374,852.919613 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/heavy-metal-detectors/ | Heavy Metal Detectors | Inderpreet Singh | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"metal detector",
"music",
"Teensy"
] | Helsinki has a strong underground Heavy Metal scene, so what better way to show it off than to have listeners literally unearth the local sounds themselves with
converted metal detectors that play, naturally, Metal
? [Steve Maher] built these modified detectors and handed them to a bunch of participants who went on exp... | 14 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3542193",
"author": "timgray1",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T20:34:37",
"content": "Doesnt work, I tried it on my Black Sabbath and my Megadeath albums and it never went off.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3542348",
"aut... | 1,760,374,853.562176 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/hackaday-prize-entry-brightenmacher/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Brightenmacher | Jenny List | [
"LED Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"flashlight",
"Hackaday Prize",
"led",
"led flashlight"
] | We have all at some point have made a flashlight. It used to be a staple of childhood electronics, the screw-in bulb in a holder, and a cycle lamp battery. If you were a particularly accomplished youthful hacker you might even have fitted a proper switch, otherwise, you probably made do with a bent paperclip and a draw... | 19 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541899",
"author": "Yann Guidon / YGDES",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T18:54:45",
"content": "In case someone missed it:https://hackaday.io/project/11527-lampounette",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3542110",
"author": "Pe... | 1,760,374,853.078828 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/ask-hackaday-what-about-the-diffusers/ | Ask Hackaday: What About The Diffusers? | Elliot Williams | [
"Ask Hackaday",
"LED Hacks",
"Skills",
"Slider"
] | [
"acrylic",
"art",
"diffuser",
"diffusor",
"led",
"reflection",
"RGB LED",
"style",
"ws2812"
] | Blinky LED projects: we just can’t get enough of them. But anyone who’s stared a WS2812 straight in the face knows that the secret sauce that takes a good LED project and makes it great is the diffuser. Without a diffuser, colors don’t blend and LEDs are just tiny, blinding points of light. The ideal diffuser scrambles... | 82 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541792",
"author": "Maxwell",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T17:09:20",
"content": "I’ve had a lot of success with sheets of notebook paper being projected upon from about an inch or so away. Basically free too.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"com... | 1,760,374,853.511565 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/wherein-the-mechanical-keyboard-community-discovers-motorized-linear-potentiometers/ | Wherein The Mechanical Keyboard Community Discovers Motorized Linear Potentiometers | Brian Benchoff | [
"Peripherals Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"interface",
"keyboard",
"linear pot",
"mechanical keyboard",
"potentiometer"
] | Deep in the bowels of the Digikey and Mouser databases, you’ll find the coolest component ever. Motorized linear potentiometers are a rare, exotic, and just plain neat input device most commonly found on gigantic audio mixing boards and other equipment that costs as much as a car. They’re slider potentiometers with a t... | 79 | 29 | [
{
"comment_id": "3543543",
"author": "Mr Knowitall",
"timestamp": "2017-04-26T23:12:03",
"content": "A little trivia for you snot-nosed kids out there – we used rotary motorized pots in analog computers.This linear one has a lot of potential for pranks, though….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth":... | 1,760,374,853.364598 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/replicating-a-victorian-era-console/ | Replicating A Victorian Era Console | Adam Fabio | [
"classic hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"cement",
"conservation",
"molding",
"restoration",
"rtv",
"rubber"
] | [Dt99jay] lives in a historic Victorian-era district in the UK. Most homes in the area have ornate exterior window dressings with stone consoles holding up heavy stone hood molding.
The window hood molding turned out to be wood — most likely the result of damage repaired after the blitzkrieg bombings of WWII. The 1940... | 27 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3543405",
"author": "philosiraptor117",
"timestamp": "2017-04-26T20:15:23",
"content": "this article’s title was a HUGE troll for me lol",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3543423",
"author": "Brian McEvoy",
"time... | 1,760,374,853.141822 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/hackaday-prize-entry-hid-dial/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: HID Dial | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"stm8",
"usb",
"usb hid"
] | Microsoft has introduced a few interesting bits of hardware recently, and the most drool worthy by far is the Microsoft Surface Dial. What is this magical input device that will revolutionize creative work on a computer? Basically, it’s a Griffin PowerMate — a rotary encoder and button — an interface that really hasn’t... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3543345",
"author": "philosiraptor117",
"timestamp": "2017-04-26T18:48:23",
"content": "i use thishttps://www.amazon.com/Griffin-PowerMate-Multi-Media-Bluetooth-Connectivity/dp/B00IRDRL4K/ref=pd_sim_147_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00IRDRL4K&pd_rd_r=2MQTYW0ZDR6HN6Z7V6HF&pd_rd_w=4iYvw&p... | 1,760,374,853.18722 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/making-a-solar-cell-tester-with-mecrisp-stellaris-forth/ | Making A Solar-Cell Tester With Mecrisp-Stellaris Forth | Elliot Williams | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"forth",
"mecrisp-stellaris"
] | In the last two articles on Forth, I’ve
ranted about how it’s beautiful but strange
, and then gotten you set up on a basic system and
blinked some LEDs
. And while I’ve pointed you at the multitasker, we haven’t made much real use of it yet. Getting started on a Forth system like this is about half the battle. Working... | 14 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3543327",
"author": "jonmayo",
"timestamp": "2017-04-26T18:25:17",
"content": "It’s very easy to find yourself without source when doing a typical FORTH workflow. But that’s not such a big deal as the de-compilation of FORTH is often built-in and very easy.",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,374,853.251168 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/hack-your-own-samsung-tv-with-the-cias-weeping-angel-exploit/ | Hack Your Own Samsung TV With The CIA’s Weeping Angel Exploit | Jack Laidlaw | [
"Security Hacks",
"Slider",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"audio bug",
"cia",
"iot security",
"listening device",
"samsung",
"smart tv",
"smart tv hack",
"surveillance",
"WikiLeaks"
] | [Wikileaks] has just published the CIA’s engineering notes for
Weeping Angel Samsung TV Exploit
. This dump includes information for field agents on how to exploit the Samsung’s F-series TVs, turning them into remotely controlled spy microphones that can send audio back to their HQ.
An attacker needs physical access to... | 57 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "3543130",
"author": "Clay",
"timestamp": "2017-04-26T15:44:20",
"content": ">firmware version 1118+ eliminates the USB installation methodSo they say, but can we be certain? Proprietary firmware makes it difficult to know such things. Perhaps the key sequence was merely changed, a... | 1,760,374,853.651838 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/juicero-a-lesson-on-when-to-engineer-less/ | Juicero: A Lesson On When To Engineer Less | Brian Benchoff | [
"Business",
"Featured",
"News",
"Slider",
"Teardown"
] | [
"Ben Einstein",
"bolt",
"Bolt.io",
"drm",
"engineering",
"Juicero"
] | Ben Einstein, a product designer and founder at Bolt, a hardware-based VC, recently got his hands on a Juicero press. This desktop juice press that only works with proprietary pouches filled with chopped fruits and vegetables is currently bandied in the tech press as evidence Silicon Valley has gone mad, there is no fu... | 174 | 43 | [
{
"comment_id": "3542968",
"author": "Rodney McKay",
"timestamp": "2017-04-26T14:08:07",
"content": "Or, just skip the juice —https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/26/people-think-juice-is-good-for-them-theyre-wrong/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,374,853.997647 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/26/vr-mechs-missing-link-the-phone-in-your-pocket/ | VR Mech’s Missing Link: The Phone In Your Pocket | Donald Papp | [
"iphone hacks",
"Virtual Reality"
] | [
"diy",
"howto",
"mech",
"mechwarrior",
"motion sickness",
"Oculus",
"Orientation API",
"simulator",
"unity",
"vr",
"websockets"
] | In the process of making a
homemade Mech Combat game
that features robot-like piloted tanks capable of turning the cockpit independent of the direction of movement, [Florian] realized that while the concept was intuitive to humans, implementing it in a VR game had challenges. In short, when the body perceives movement ... | 10 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3542791",
"author": "Doug Leppard",
"timestamp": "2017-04-26T11:15:12",
"content": "I use my Galaxy S6 with VR goggles to fly my quad copter (Phantom 3 Pro) in VR or First Person Video FPV.That setup with the Litchi app allows my goggles with the S6 control the quad’s camera.",
... | 1,760,374,854.0431 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/around-the-globe-on-world-create-day/ | Around The Globe On World Create Day | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"BlenderLab",
"hong kong",
"Lille",
"MakerBay",
"Nest I/O",
"nyc",
"pakistan"
] | Last weekend was great for science and technology. While thousands of people took to the streets to protest anti-intellectualism, a few members of the Hackaday community dug their heels in, turned on the soldering iron, and actually did something about it. This was World Create Day, a community effort to come together ... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "3542051",
"author": "tedmeyers",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T19:48:42",
"content": "” great for science and technology. While thousands of people took to the streets” Yeah. cause everyone knows that scientific progress is made through angry mobs bullying any skeptics into submission.",... | 1,760,374,854.09591 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/an-analog-charge-pump-fabrication-time-attack-compromises-a-processor/ | An Analog Charge Pump Fabrication-Time Attack Compromises A Processor | Jenny List | [
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"attack",
"fabrication time attack",
"hardware trojan",
"trojan"
] | We will all be used to malicious software, computers and operating systems compromised by viruses, worms, or Trojans. It has become a fact of life, and a whole industry of virus checking software exists to help users defend against it.
Underlying our concerns about malicious software is an assumption that the hardware ... | 47 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541690",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T15:35:03",
"content": "This is just one more reason why we need make IC fabrication tools that are inexpensive, so that you can make your own chips if you want. I know it’s a slow, complex and high precision process but I’m not... | 1,760,374,854.180107 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/different-differentials-the-pitfalls-of-the-easy-swap/ | Different Differentials & The Pitfalls Of The Easy Swap | Lewin Day | [
"car hacks",
"Featured"
] | [
"car",
"differential",
"limited slip differential",
"lsd",
"miata",
"modification",
"mx-5"
] | I dig cars, and I do car stuff. I started fairly late in life, though, and I’m only just starting to get into the whole modification thing. Now, as far as automobiles go, you can pretty much do anything you set your mind to – engine swaps, drivetrain conversions, you name it – it’s been done. But such jobs require a hi... | 70 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541649",
"author": "komradebob",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T14:26:57",
"content": "You bend a brake pad by having one end not move because it is hung up on the caliper, the slides, or just not quite in the right place.Now that you know to look and make sure the pads are properly seat... | 1,760,374,854.333182 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/papa-loves-mamba-slithering-robot-is-reconfigurable/ | Papa Loves Mamba: Slithering Robot Is Reconfigurable | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"ouroboros",
"robot",
"snake"
] | It makes sense considering evolution, but nature comes up with lots of different ways to do things. Consider moving. Land animals walk on four feet or two, some jump, and some use peristalsis or otherwise slither. Oddly, though, mother nature never developed the wheel (although the mother-of-pearl moth’s caterpillar wi... | 6 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541587",
"author": "glen",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T12:35:18",
"content": "i’ll just leave this here ;-)http://www.popsci.com/3d-view-biological-wheels-that-let-bacteria-move",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3541606",
"autho... | 1,760,374,854.219499 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/25/model-sputnik-finds-its-voice-after-decades-of-silence/ | Model Sputnik Finds Its Voice After Decades Of Silence | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"audio",
"germanium",
"lfo",
"model",
"oscillator",
"sputnik",
"wien bridge"
] | As we approach the 60th anniversary of the human race becoming a spacefaring species, Sputnik nostalgia will no doubt be on the rise. And rightly so — even though Sputnik was remarkably primitive compared to today’s satellites, its 1957 launch was an inflection point in history and a huge achievement for humanity.
The ... | 18 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541424",
"author": "Jon H",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T08:40:40",
"content": "Public Service Broadcasting!Also possibly of particular interest, their song “Spitfire”, which uses audio samples from a 1940s movie about the creation of the Spitfire fighter plane.",
"parent_id": null... | 1,760,374,854.385813 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/24/esp32s-freedom-output-lets-you-do-anything/ | ESP32’s Freedom Output Lets You Do Anything | Elliot Williams | [
"Slider",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"ESP32",
"monitor mode",
"packet injection",
"reverse engineering",
"wifi"
] | The ESP32 is Espressif’s new wonder-chip, and one of the most interesting aspects of its development has been the almost entirely open-source development strategy that they’re taking. But the “almost” in almost entirely open is important — there are still some binary blobs in the system, and some of them are exactly wh... | 39 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541307",
"author": "bty",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T05:07:48",
"content": "impressive, I’d better stock up..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3541312",
"author": "Tucson Tom",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T05:16:22",
"cont... | 1,760,374,854.509131 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/24/hackaday-prize-entry-mcxy-mini-laser-cut-aluminum-3d-printer/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: MCXY – Mini Laser Cut Aluminum 3D Printer | Jenny List | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"3d printer",
"Hackaday Prize",
"laser cut"
] | With the easy availability of cheap and 3D printers from the usual Chinese websites, you might think that there could be little room for another home-made 3D printer project. fortunately, the community of 3D printer making enthusiasts doesn’t see it that way.
[Bobricius] has
a rather nice 3D printer design in the works... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541269",
"author": "--A",
"timestamp": "2017-04-25T03:22:28",
"content": "The article title says laser, but the body says CNC cut aluminum.The documentation is quiet on the matter – or I failed to spot any such… But some cuts appear to have square corners suggesting laser, so maybe... | 1,760,374,854.4337 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/24/steve-evans-passes-away-leaves-an-inspiring-legacy/ | Steve Evans Passes Away, Leaves An Inspiring Legacy | Mike Szczys | [
"News"
] | [
"eye control",
"eyedrivomatic",
"eyegaze",
"gaze tracking",
"open hardware",
"open source software",
"Steve Evans",
"WheelChair"
] | It is with great sadness that Hackaday learns of the passing of Steve Evans. He was
one of the creators of Eyedrivomatic
, the eye-controlled wheelchair project which was awarded the Grand Prize during the 2015 Hackaday Prize.
News of Steve’s passing was shared by his teammate Cody Barnes in
a project update on Monday
... | 28 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541146",
"author": "eyetrackingforhumanity",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T23:06:57",
"content": ":(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3543773",
"author": "eyetrackingforhumanity",
"timestamp": "2017-04-27T05:51:59",... | 1,760,374,854.572083 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/24/pogoplug-hacking-a-step-by-step-guide-to-owning-the-device/ | PogoPlug Hacking: A Step By Step Guide To Owning The Device | Jack Laidlaw | [
"hardware",
"how-to"
] | [
"arm",
"Embedded Linux",
"hardware",
"hardware hacking",
"pogoplug",
"serial communications",
"serial hacking"
] | [Films By Kris Hardware] has started quite an interesting YouTube series on
hacking and owning a PogoPlug
Mobile v4. While this has been done many times in the past, he gives a great step by step tutorial. The series so far is quite impressive, going into great detail on how to gain root access to the device through se... | 29 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541106",
"author": "Jack Laidlaw",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T21:59:28",
"content": "This is mobile v4 but prob applies to quite a few others too. and not just PogoPlugs quite a few Linux box devices have serial and work around the same principle.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth... | 1,760,374,854.638402 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/24/behold-the-many-builds-of-world-create-day/ | Behold The Many Builds Of World Create Day | Mike Szczys | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"appalachian forge works",
"Baltimore",
"LearnOBots",
"Madison",
"pakistan",
"The Bodgery",
"World Create Day"
] | World Create Day was huge this year. Over 70 different groups on six continents got together on Saturday to work on projects as a global Hackaday community.
LearnOBots Labs in Islamabad, Pakistan
Perhaps the best documented World Create Day so far comes from our friends in Pakistan.
LearnOBots hosted a day-long extrava... | 6 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3541093",
"author": "drwho8 (@drwho8)",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T21:32:10",
"content": "Commercially available 18650s? They’ve been available for a while now. Follow Brian B. to the next Hack NYC meeting… I’ll be there.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,374,854.753914 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/24/life-on-contract-hacking-your-taxes/ | Life On Contract: Hacking Your Taxes | Bob Baddeley | [
"Business",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Lifehacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"consulting",
"contract",
"life on contract",
"tax"
] | You’re a contractor and people are paying you to work in your pajamas. It’s a life of luxury, but when tax time comes, you are in a world of hurt and you wonder why you even do it. Taxes are tricky, but there are some tools you can use to make it less painful on your pocketbook. With planning and diligence, you can sig... | 37 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3540659",
"author": "Biomed",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T18:28:29",
"content": "",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3540662",
"author": "Biomed",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T18:29:01",
"content": "Bleh…. APP... | 1,760,374,855.027585 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/24/official-launch-of-the-asus-tinker-board/ | Official Launch Of The Asus Tinker Board | Jenny List | [
"computer hacks"
] | [
"Asus",
"Asus Tinker",
"asus tinker board",
"single board computer"
] | Earlier this year, a new single board computer was announced, and subsequently made its way onto the market.
The Tinker Board
was a little different from the rest of the crop of Raspberry Pi lookalikes, it didn’t come from a no-name company or a crowdfunding site, instead it came from a trusted name, Asus. As a result,... | 57 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "3540224",
"author": "djsmiley2k",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T15:43:02",
"content": "You seem to have utterly missed the point of the raspi…Amazon.co.uk listing: £54.99 Delivery at no extra cost for Prime members DetailsRaspi 3B: Price:\t£31.99 Delivery at no additional cost for Prime ... | 1,760,374,855.318795 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/24/neural-networks-youve-got-it-so-easy/ | Neural Networks: You’ve Got It So Easy | Steven Dufresne | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Slider",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"deep learning",
"gpu",
"machine learning",
"neural network",
"tensorflow"
] | Neural networks are all the rage right now with increasing numbers of hackers, students, researchers, and businesses getting involved. The last resurgence was in the 80s and 90s, when there was little or no World Wide Web and few neural network tools. The current resurgence started around 2006. From a hacker’s perspect... | 25 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "3540115",
"author": "Michael Engel",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T14:17:40",
"content": "Well, the Raspi already has a GPU, of course. So it’s no wonder someone (ab?)used it for running a NN:https://petewarden.com/2014/06/09/deep-learning-on-the-raspberry-pi/(unfortunately, no source co... | 1,760,374,855.224997 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/24/white-hat-botnet-infects-then-secures-iot-devices/ | White-hat Botnet Infects, Then Secures IoT Devices | Jack Laidlaw | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"botnet",
"Hajime",
"IoT",
"IoT botnet",
"iot security",
"mirai",
"network security",
"p2p",
"p2p networks",
"symantec",
"white hat hacking",
"worm"
] | [Symantec] Reports Hajime seems to be a
white hat worm
that spreads over telnet in order to secure IoT devices instead of actually doing anything malicious.
[Brian Benchoff] wrote a great article about the
Hajime Worm
just as the story broke when first discovered back in October last year. At the time, it looked like t... | 32 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3539980",
"author": "joeyMC",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T11:33:13",
"content": "I found it hard to focus on this article. All i could think of was how nice it would be to have gummy worms right now",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id":... | 1,760,374,855.386815 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/24/laser-surgery-expanding-the-bed-of-a-cheap-chinese-laser-cutter/ | Laser Surgery: Expanding The Bed Of A Cheap Chinese Laser Cutter | Dan Maloney | [
"Laser Hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"80/20 aluminum extrusions",
"co2 laser",
"engraver",
"exhaust",
"gantry",
"high voltage",
"K40",
"laser cutter",
"mirrors",
"z-axis"
] | Don’t you just hate it when you spend less than $400 on a 40-watt laser cutter and it turns out to have a work area the size of a sheet of copy paper? [Kostas Filosofou] sure did, but rather than stick with that limited work envelope, he
modified his cheap K40 laser cutter so it has almost five times the original space... | 29 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3539741",
"author": "0xfred",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T08:42:22",
"content": "That’s nicely done. I might just have to do that with mine.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6700434",
"author": "mr yo",
"timestamp"... | 1,760,374,855.452391 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/23/arbitrary-code-execution-is-in-another-castle/ | Arbitrary Code Execution Is In Another Castle! | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"arbitrary code execution",
"exploit",
"mario 3",
"nintendo",
"speed run",
"super mario",
"video game"
] | When one buys a computer, it should be expected that the owner can run any code on it that they want. Often this isn’t the case, though, as most modern devices are sold with locked bootloaders or worse. Older technology is a little bit easier to handle, however, but arbitrary code execution on something like an origina... | 13 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "3539368",
"author": "Mr. Kennsen",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T06:11:12",
"content": "I am curious where this will go. This video was posted quite some time back. And there are other games with similar glitches (some are even intended). Since the software on theses systems can be consi... | 1,760,374,855.575576 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/23/esp32s-dev-framework-reaches-2-0/ | ESP32’s Dev Framework Reaches 2.0 | Elliot Williams | [
"Microcontrollers",
"News",
"Slider"
] | [
"bug bounty",
"esp-idf",
"ESP32",
"release"
] | We’ve been watching the development of the ESP32 chip for the last year, but honestly we’ve been a little bit cautious to throw all of our friendly ESP8266s away just yet. Earlier this month,
Espressif released version 2.0 of their IoT Development Framework
(ESP-IDF), and if you haven’t been following along, you’ve mis... | 22 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3539011",
"author": "Spencer",
"timestamp": "2017-04-24T04:14:50",
"content": "Oh this is excellent! I wrote a MQTT library a few months ago but never got TLS working on it. I wonder if my old code will still compile…I think I’ll have to investigate the new developments once the sch... | 1,760,374,855.519846 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/23/hackaday-links-april-23-2017/ | Hackaday Links: April 23, 2017 | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"power point",
"Powerpoint",
"starcraft",
"system76",
"trademark",
"X-Carve"
] | ‘Member StarCraft? Ooooh, I ‘member StarCraft.
The original game and the Brood War expansion are now free
. A new patch fixes most of the problems of getting a 20-year-old game working and vastly improves playing over LAN (‘member when you could play video games over a LAN?)
And you thought you were going to have free ... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3538364",
"author": "Galane",
"timestamp": "2017-04-23T23:11:16",
"content": "The new download of the old Starcraft is a web install. You get to spend a bunch of time watching it download a couple of gigabytes.If you don’t care about online play and want an offline setup, search for... | 1,760,374,855.617715 |
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