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https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/keep-an-eye-on-the-sky-with-rduinoscope/ | Keep An Eye On The Sky With RDuinoScope | Will Sweatman | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"Arduino DUE",
"space",
"stars",
"telescope"
] | We’ve all enjoyed looking up at a clear night sky and marveled at the majesty of the stars. Some of us have even pointed telescopes at particular celestial objects to get a closer view. Anyone who’s ever looked at anything beyond Jupiter knows the hassle involved. It is most unfortunate that the planet we reside on ha... | 7 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3523589",
"author": "Adam",
"timestamp": "2017-04-12T09:53:43",
"content": "I’ve ordered the parts to build this (including the telescope)!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3523664",
"author": "Biomed",
"timestamp": "2017... | 1,760,374,870.80873 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/13/google-calendar-interface-for-your-internet-of-lawns/ | Google Calendar Interface For Your Internet Of Lawns | Dan Maloney | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"google calendar",
"internet of lawn",
"internet of sprinklers",
"lawn sprinkler",
"sprinkler",
"water the lawn",
"watering"
] | If you live somewhere where summers are hot and dry, you can instantly tell which homes don’t have automatic sprinklers installed. Or they may have them installed, but like the blinking “12:00” on that VCR of yore, the owners may not have mastered the art of programming the controller. To be fair, the UI on most reside... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3524697",
"author": "Dave Davidson",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T12:28:15",
"content": "Please Make it STOP!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3524778",
"author": "ScriptGiddy",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T15:36:26",
... | 1,760,374,870.914807 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/13/defeat-the-markup-iphone-built-by-cruising-shenzhen/ | Defeat The Markup: Iphone Built By Cruising Shenzhen | Adil Malik | [
"hardware",
"iphone hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"apple",
"china",
"diy iphone",
"iphone",
"shenzhen"
] | [Scotty Allen] from Strange Parts, has just concluded a three month journey of what clearly is one of the
most interesting Shenzhen market projects
we have seen in a while. We have all heard amazing tales, pertaining the versatility of these Chinese markets and the multitude of parts, tools and expertise available at y... | 46 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "3524615",
"author": "SlurmMcKenzie",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T08:55:27",
"content": "Even if he did manage to assemble the logic board himself, wouldn’t the software be an even bigger problem ?Maybe he could get the bootloader and iOS into the memory, and maybe it would even boot up... | 1,760,374,871.000556 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/12/4-4-ghz-frequency-synthesis-made-easy/ | 4.4 GHz Frequency Synthesis Made Easy | Al Williams | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"adf4351",
"frequency synthesis",
"radio frequency",
"RF"
] | How hard is it to create a synthesizer to generate frequencies between 35 MHz to 4.4 GHz? [OpenTechLab] noticed a rash of boards based on the ADF4351 that could do just that priced at under $30. He decided to get one and
try it out
and you can find his video results below.
At that price point, he didn’t expect much fro... | 19 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3524594",
"author": "Salil Tembe",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T08:09:49",
"content": "The MAX2870 can go all the way up to 6GHz and has a very identical pin out.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3524633",
"author": "???? ????",
... | 1,760,374,870.872089 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/12/detect-cars-running-stop-signs-and-squirrels-running-across-the-roof/ | Detect Cars Running Stop Signs (and Squirrels Running Across The Roof) | Rich Hawkes | [
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"cars",
"opencv",
"raspberry pi",
"Raspberry pi camera",
"running stop signs",
"stop signs"
] | In order to avoid the traffic and delays on a major thoroughfare, cars take the road behind [Devin Gaffney]’s house, but he noticed a lot of cars didn’t bother to stop at the stop sign. He had a Raspberry Pi and a camera, so he set them up to
detect the violating cars
.
His setup is pretty standard – Raspberry Pi and c... | 40 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3524375",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T02:37:46",
"content": "Is there a button for, “accident at intersection”?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3525134",
"author": "DGaff",
"timestamp": "2017... | 1,760,374,871.409878 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/12/can-you-build-an-e-ink-display-from-scratch/ | Can You Build An E-ink Display From Scratch? | Adil Malik | [
"hardware"
] | [
"conductive ink",
"diy display",
"e-ink",
"how-to"
] | Modern displays are fascinating little things. In particular, the E-Ink displays employed in modern E-books achieve mesmerising paper like contrast with excellent standby power consumption. Many of us at some point have had a go at experimenting with DIY displays, but been discouraged by the miniature scales involved.... | 25 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3524070",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.2",
"timestamp": "2017-04-12T23:12:37",
"content": "Finally a hack :DNice work.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3524076",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.2",
"timestamp": "2017-04-12T23:29... | 1,760,374,871.164368 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/12/every-tornado-siren-in-dallas-hacked/ | Every Tornado Siren In Dallas Hacked | Jack Laidlaw | [
"News",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"air raid siren",
"dallas",
"infrastructure",
"security breach",
"tornado",
"tornado siren"
] | Someone had some fun with the Dallas early warning tornado siren system on Friday, April 8th. All 156
tornado sirens were hacked
to go off just before midnight until they were manually turned off individually, reports The Washington Post. Thousands of residents flooded 911 call centers asking if they were under attack,... | 52 | 18 | [
{
"comment_id": "3523936",
"author": "Somun",
"timestamp": "2017-04-12T20:08:43",
"content": "They should have done this on April 1st.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3523943",
"author": "bob",
"timestamp": "2017-04-12T20:18:52... | 1,760,374,871.494886 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/12/hackaday-prize-entry-real-hard-drives-in-the-raspberry-pi/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Real Hard Drives In The Raspberry Pi | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"hard drive",
"ide",
"pata",
"raspberry pi"
] | ‘Boy, I wish the Raspberry Pi had a SATA port’. This is the plea that echoes through the Internet, and for once, the Internet is not wrong. A SATA port — or any connector to a big, dumb spinny disk — would be a great addition to the Raspberry Pi ecosystem.
[AlanH]’s entry to the Hackaday Prize
is the exact opposite of ... | 61 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "3523891",
"author": "localhost",
"timestamp": "2017-04-12T18:51:40",
"content": "I just got trolled by the clickbait title and thought this thing could turn my old DVD drives into something more useful without any USB adapter. I wanted to interface them to a microcontroller but I ca... | 1,760,374,871.101805 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/10-orange-pi-2g-iot-released-to-compete-with-pi-zero-w/ | $10 Orange Pi 2G-IoT Released To Compete With Pi Zero W | Jack Laidlaw | [
"ARM",
"News",
"Slider"
] | [
"AliExpress",
"New Part Day",
"Orange Pi",
"Orange Pi 2G-IoT",
"Orange Pi Zero",
"single board computer"
] | A new single-board computer by Orange Pi has popped up for sale on AliExpress. The
Orange Pi 2G-IoT
is designed to compete with the Raspberry Pi Zero, and if specs are anything to go by they have done a nice job.
There are a lot of options for extra small single board computers these days and there’s a growing list at ... | 76 | 24 | [
{
"comment_id": "3523442",
"author": "???? ????",
"timestamp": "2017-04-12T02:18:04",
"content": "This runs Armbian, then what is the problem?https://www.armbian.com",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3523453",
"author": "jonsmirl",
... | 1,760,374,871.336222 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/hackaday-prize-entry-experiments-with-wheeled-legs/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Experiments With Wheeled Legs | Anool Mahidharia | [
"Robots Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"ghost in the shell",
"robot",
"servo",
"walking robot",
"wheeled robot"
] | If you’ve been keeping tabs on recent developments in robotics, you surely remember Handle — the awesome walking, wheeled robot from Boston Dynamics. There’s a good reason why such a combination is a good choice of locomotion for robots. Rolling on wheels is a good way to cover smooth terrain with high efficiency. But ... | 14 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3523370",
"author": "Paul Ash",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T23:03:06",
"content": "its a tachikoma baby!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3523531",
"author": "Phrewfuf",
"timestamp": "2017-04-12T07:17:40",
... | 1,760,374,871.218405 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/making-metal-dominoes/ | Making Metal Dominoes | James Hobson | [
"cnc hacks",
"how-to"
] | [
"aluminium",
"ball",
"brass",
"cnc",
"diy",
"domino",
"marker",
"paint"
] | Nearly as versatile as a deck of playing cards, dominoes are a great addition to any rainy-day repertoire of game sets. [Apollo] from the Youtube channel [carbide3d] has manufactured for themselves a custom set of
domino tiles replete with brass pips
.
Cutting the bar stock to the appropriate size, [Apollo] ran a few t... | 14 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3523327",
"author": "boring hobson",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T21:37:40",
"content": "Utterly boring video wrapped in an totally non-informative and equally boring article. It´s not yet the day [Hobson] will write an article we´ll learn something from…",
"parent_id": null,
"d... | 1,760,374,871.950541 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/world-create-day-get-together-and-hack-on-april-22nd/ | World Create Day: Get Together And Hack On April 22nd | Mike Szczys | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"#WorldCreateDay",
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"World Create Day"
] | Venture away from your workbench and see what others have been building this year. It’s time for Hackaday
World Create Day
when hackers all over the world get together to work on projects.
On April 22nd, join the creative minds in your area for a few hours of build time. It’s an opportunity to inspire and be inspired b... | 4 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "3523226",
"author": "Ian Lee, Sr. (@ianlee74)",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T18:41:49",
"content": "This sounds like a great event and I would love for my group, NashMicro, to host one. However, its not going to happen with 11 days notice. We usually have our scheduled filled several mo... | 1,760,374,871.676418 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/ask-hackaday-how-does-this-air-particle-sensor-work/ | Ask Hackaday: How Does This Air Particle Sensor Work? | Brian Benchoff | [
"Ask Hackaday",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"Ask Hackaday",
"dust sensor",
"maxim",
"particle",
"particle sensor",
"sensor",
"tricorder"
] | The hardware coming out of [Dr. Peter Jansen]’s lab is the craziest stuff you can imagine. He’s built a CT scanner out of plywood, and an MRI machine out of many, many turns of enamel wire. Perhaps his best-known build is his Tricorder – a real, all-sensing device with permission from the estate of [Gene Roddenberry] t... | 18 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3523018",
"author": "machinehum",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T17:07:28",
"content": "Why on earth would you design something with a maxim part, fuck those guys. Good luck getting qtd less than 5k",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "352... | 1,760,374,871.90388 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/a-huge-infra-red-touch-board/ | A Huge Infra-Red Touch Board | Jenny List | [
"LED Hacks",
"Multitouch Hacks"
] | [
"ir",
"IR touch",
"pointing device",
"touch surface"
] | We’re all used to touch pads on our laptops, and to touch screens. It’s an expectation now that a new device with a screen will be touch-enabled.
For very large surfaces though, touch is still something of an expensive luxury. If you’re a hardware hacker, unless you are lucky enough to score an exceptional cast-off, th... | 29 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3522903",
"author": "Bob",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T16:07:59",
"content": "Hewlett-Packard’s HP-150 personal computer did this back in the 1980s. It was a good idea that wasn’t 100% IBM PC compatible, so of course it failed.Microcomputers were so much more creative pre-IBM. I miss t... | 1,760,374,871.849187 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/trademarking-makerspace-again/ | Trademarking Makerspace (Again) | Brian Benchoff | [
"News"
] | [
"intellectual property",
"ip",
"make",
"makerspace",
"trademark"
] | A British company
has filed a trademark application
for the word ‘MakerSpace’. While we’ve seen companies attempt to latch on to popular Maker phrases before, Gratnells Limited, the company in question, is a manufacturer of
plastic containers, carts, and other various storage solutions
. These products apparently provi... | 31 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3522732",
"author": "limroh",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T15:22:30",
"content": "“Swift and efficient German bureaucracy prevailed, …”I’m missing some sarcasm/irony tags here ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3522854",
"author... | 1,760,374,872.026276 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/introduction-to-tensorflow/ | Introduction To TensorFlow | Steven Dufresne | [
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Skills",
"Slider",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"machine learning",
"neural network",
"raspberry pi",
"Raspberry Pi 3",
"tensorboard",
"tensorflow"
] | I had great fun writing neural network software in the 90s, and I have been anxious to try creating some using
TensorFlow
.
Google’s machine intelligence framework is the new hotness right now. And when TensorFlow
became installable on the Raspberry Pi
, working with it became very easy to do. In a short time I made a ... | 26 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3522518",
"author": "r4m0n",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T14:18:37",
"content": "TensorFlow is integrating Keras as of the last versions to improve usability. If you’re going to work with NN’s, start with learning Keras.You only need to bother with TensorFlow directly if you’re going to... | 1,760,374,872.101564 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/a-tiny-bench-power-supply/ | A Tiny Bench Power Supply | Brian Benchoff | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"linear power supply",
"power supply"
] | One of the more popular projects for beginners in electronics is a power supply. Yes, you can always go to Amazon and buy a nice power supply, but unfortunately, we haven’t set up our Amazon affiliate links yet. Instead, we’ll have to go with the next best thing and check out
[Tron900]’s mini bench power supply build
.... | 22 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3522082",
"author": "Nick",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T11:45:15",
"content": "“cute as a button” – did you do what I think you did there?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3522228",
"author": "richfiles",
"timestam... | 1,760,374,872.162518 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/11/esp32-wifi-hits-10km-with-a-little-help/ | ESP32 WiFi Hits 10km With A Little Help | Al Williams | [
"Slider",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"antenna",
"decibels",
"ESP32",
"friis equation",
"long range wifi",
"wifi"
] | [Jeija] was playing with some ESP32s and in true hacker fashion, he wondered how far he could pull them apart and still get data flowing. His
video answer
to that question covers the Friis equation and has a lot of good examples of using the equation, decibels, and even a practical example that covers about 10km. You c... | 32 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3521613",
"author": "BOMBOVA",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T08:38:42",
"content": "rite on, , i have done 1 Km. not quite the antenna you have, but i will make one. cheers, very good video",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id":... | 1,760,374,872.315062 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/radiantbee-is-a-flying-microwave-antenna-calibration-system/ | RadiantBee Is A Flying Microwave Antenna Calibration System | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"10GHz",
"antenna",
"antenna testing",
"radio"
] | Many of the projects we link to here at Hackaday have extensive write-ups, pages of all the detail you could need. Sometimes though we happen upon a project with only a terse description to go on, but whose tech makes it one worth stopping for and unpicking the web of information around it.
Such a project is [F4GKR] an... | 4 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3521048",
"author": "M",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T05:06:27",
"content": "“…grasp it with both hands. You’ll learn a lot”“Is that so? Well, here goes nothi-BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3521895",
"aut... | 1,760,374,872.199124 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/8-bit-breadboard-computer-is-up-to-8-hours/ | 8-Bit Breadboard Computer Is Up To 8 Hours | Al Williams | [
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"breadboard",
"cpu",
"CPU architecture",
"custom cpu"
] | [Ben Eater] posted some videos of an 8-bit computer with no CPU chip that he built completely on a breadboard a few years ago. After being asked for schematics, he finally admitted that he didn’t have any. So, instead, he decided to rebuild it and keep a video log of each step in the process. You can see his kickoff vi... | 13 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3520800",
"author": "Stéphane Tremblay",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T02:52:40",
"content": "That is sure a clean breadboard.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3521057",
"author": "movax",
"timestamp": "2017-04-11T05:37:54",
... | 1,760,374,872.24976 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/wireless-nunchuck-rc-remote/ | Wireless Nunchuck R/C Remote! | James Hobson | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"Aurel",
"controlled",
"i2c",
"mecrisp-stellaris",
"nunchuck",
"remote",
"Son",
"stellaris",
"transceiver",
"wiimote"
] | [Dan], admirably rose to the occasion when his son wanted a new toy. Being a dedicated father — and instead of buying something new — he took the opportunity to abscond to his workbench to convert a
Wiimote Nunchuck into a fully wireless controller
for his son’s old r/c car — itself, gutted and rebuilt some years earli... | 5 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "3520720",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.2",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T23:51:50",
"content": "Now all it needs is traction.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3520723",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.2",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T23:... | 1,760,374,872.353971 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/wirelessly-charge-your-phone-from-high-voltage-power-lines/ | Wirelessly Charge Your Phone From High Voltage Power Lines | Jack Laidlaw | [
"how-to"
] | [
"cell phones",
"dangerous experiments",
"flyback transformer",
"high voltage",
"induction charger",
"inductive charging",
"insane",
"kreosan",
"wireless charging",
"wireless charging hack"
] | Using nothing more than an antenna, a spark plug, a flyback transformer, a diode, and a car phone charger, [Kreosan] have implemented the world’s most dangerous cell-phone charger: wirelessly
charging their phone from high voltage power lines
. This is a demonstration of a hack that we thought was just an urban legend,... | 103 | 27 | [
{
"comment_id": "3520574",
"author": "bruceperens",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T20:09:39",
"content": "I know someone who wanted to take the tube from a microwave oven and use it for comminications…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3520629",
... | 1,760,374,872.580058 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/13/apparently-time-is-money/ | Apparently Time IS Money | Al Williams | [
"Network Hacks"
] | [
"gps",
"gpsdo",
"network time protocol",
"ntp",
"odroid c3"
] | Some people like to tweak cars. Some like to overclock PCs. Then there are the guys like [Jack Zimmermann] who are obsessed with accurate time. He’s working on a project that will deploy NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers in different African countries and needed small, cheap, energy-efficient, and accurate servers. W... | 25 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3525205",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-04-14T02:21:59",
"content": "One day… one day I’ll get that GPS NTP server set up. One day.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3525219",
"author": "meh",
"timesta... | 1,760,374,872.642872 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/13/daedalus-jet-suit-takes-to-the-skies/ | Daedalus Jet Suit Takes To The Skies | Adam Fabio | [
"News",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"Daedalus",
"flight",
"Gas turbine",
"iron man",
"jet engine",
"jet pack",
"turbine"
] | [Richard Browning] wants to fly like Daedalus. To us, it looks a bit more like Iron Man. [Browning] is working on project Daedalus, a flight suit powered by six jet engines. These turbines are exactly the type one would find on large, fast, and expensive R/C planes. Some of this is documented on his YouTube channel,
Gr... | 38 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "3525135",
"author": "Somun",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T23:16:40",
"content": "The video is posted on March 31st. Looks like a nicely done BS.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3525138",
"author": "Stickben",
"timestamp": "2... | 1,760,374,872.898663 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/13/measuring-tiny-masses-acoustically/ | Measuring Tiny Masses Acoustically | Dan Maloney | [
"chemistry hacks",
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"MEMS",
"photointerrupter",
"piezoelectric",
"SMR",
"zebrafish"
] | How do you measure the mass of something really, really tiny? Like fish-embryo tiny. There aren’t many scales with the sensitivity and the resolution to make meaningful measurements in the nanogram range, so you’ve got to turn to other methods, like
measuring changes in the resonant frequency of a glass tube
. And that... | 11 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3525066",
"author": "Moryc",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T20:28:30",
"content": "There was an article in Scientific American in 1990’s about using an analog meter as scale. Meter was on its side and pointer was extended (IIRC). Sample was placed at its end, then current (or voltage) was... | 1,760,374,872.734714 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/13/hackaday-prize-entry-zappotron-super-sequencer/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Zappotron Super Sequencer | Jenny List | [
"Musical Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"circuit bending",
"Hackaday Prize",
"NES lightgun",
"sequencer"
] | If you fancy a go at circuit bending, where do you start? Perhaps you find a discarded musical toy at a junk sale and have a poke around, maybe you find the timing circuit and pull it a little to produce a pitch bend. Add a few wires, see what interesting things you can do connecting point A to point B, that kind of th... | 7 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3525088",
"author": "Jamie Seager",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T21:03:15",
"content": "He put all the time and effort into building that and didn’t build a turntable to rotate it on display? pshh Fantastic build work and really quite genius in my opinion, mad props!",
"parent_id":... | 1,760,374,872.685545 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/13/heat-shrink-tubing-and-the-chemistry-behind-its-magic/ | Heat Shrink Tubing And The Chemistry Behind Its Magic | Dan Maloney | [
"chemistry hacks",
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"heat shrink",
"Paul Cook",
"radiation",
"radiochemistry",
"shrink tubing"
] | There’s a lot to be said in favor of getting kids involved in hacking as young as possible, but there is one thing about working in electronics that I believe is best left as a mystery until at least the teenage years — hide the shrink tube. Teach them to breadboard, have them learn resistor color codes and Ohm’s Law, ... | 70 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "3524849",
"author": "John Phillips",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T17:22:47",
"content": "I just assumed te price had increased somewhat since I last bought some.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3525059",
"author": "Andrew ... | 1,760,374,873.138501 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/13/fpga-emulates-nes-cart-prototype-so-cyberpunk/ | FPGA Emulates NES Cart; Prototype So Cyberpunk | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Nintendo Hacks"
] | [
"cartridge",
"emulator",
"famicom",
"microcontroller",
"nes",
"nintendo",
"Pegasus",
"rom"
] | By now, most of us have had some experience getting ROMs from classic video games to run on new hardware. Whether that’s just on a personal computer with the keyboard as a controller, or if it’s a more refined RetrioPie in a custom-built cabinet, it has become relatively mainstream. What isn’t mainstream, however, is b... | 25 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3524786",
"author": "Generic Human",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T15:53:29",
"content": "Nice project but that is the ugliest soldering job I have ever seen.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3524789",
"author": "Camilopiro"... | 1,760,374,872.966384 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/13/say-it-with-me-root-mean-square/ | Say It With Me: Root-Mean-Square | Elliot Williams | [
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider"
] | [
"peak to peak",
"rms",
"root mean square",
"Say it with Me",
"voltage",
"What is RMS"
] | If you measure a DC voltage, and want to get some idea of how “big” it is over time, it’s pretty easy: just take a number of measurements and take the average. If you’re interested in the average power over the same timeframe, it’s likely to be pretty close (though not identical) to the same answer you’d get if you cal... | 23 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3524836",
"author": "forthprgrmr",
"timestamp": "2017-04-13T17:10:10",
"content": "In the 70’s there was an interesting “battle” between dbx and Dolby.Dolby’s system had problems with compression/expansion on tape because the low frequencies would get shifted in phase by the recordi... | 1,760,374,873.207472 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/hackaday-prize-entry-detecting-adulterated-food-using-ai/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Detecting Adulterated Food Using AI | Steven Dufresne | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"ai",
"food",
"raspberry pi",
"Raspberry pi camera"
] | Adulterated food is food that has a substance added to it to save on manufacturing costs. It can have a negative effect, it can reduce the food’s potency or it can have no effect at all. In many cases it’s done illegally. It’s also a widespread problem, one which [G. Vignesh] has decided to take on as his entry for the... | 17 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3520388",
"author": "Zeon",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T18:47:14",
"content": "At first i thought this was a project aimed at detecting the sort of contaminants that might be added to food by disgruntled fast foox workers. That would make for a very usefull phone app!",
"parent_id"... | 1,760,374,873.023345 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/hackaday-trims-its-own-resistors/ | Hackaday Trims Its Own Resistors | Elliot Williams | [
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns",
"hardware",
"Slider"
] | [
"alcatraz",
"dac",
"file",
"precision",
"r-2r",
"r2r",
"resistor"
] | There are times when you might want an odd-value resistor. Rather than run out to the store to buy a 3,140 Ω resistor, you can get there with a good ohmmeter and a willingness to solder things in series and parallel. But when you want a
precise
resistor value, and you want many of them, Frankensteining many resistors t... | 95 | 30 | [
{
"comment_id": "3520158",
"author": "Artenz",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T17:14:42",
"content": "Often you don’t want a precise value, but a constant value, so you need an expensive resistor with very low temperature coefficient.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,374,873.344311 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/souped-up-next-gen-wearables/ | Souped-Up, Next Gen Wearables | Kristina Panos | [
"chemistry hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"Bao Lab",
"biowearables",
"soup thickener",
"space-age polymers",
"stanford",
"Wearables"
] | The biggest hurdle to great advances in wearable technology is the human body itself. For starters, there isn’t a single straight line on the thing. Add in all the flexing and sweating, and you have a pretty difficult platform for
innovation. Well, times are changing for wearables. While there is no stock answer,
there... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3520046",
"author": "Matt Cramer",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T15:41:46",
"content": "“Get this: the material conducts even better when stretched.” Looks like it may have some interesting strain gauge uses too…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"... | 1,760,374,873.394371 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/lights-out-in-quebec-the-1989-geomagnetic-storm/ | Lights Out In Québec: The 1989 Geomagnetic Storm | Dan Maloney | [
"Curated",
"Featured",
"History",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"astronomy",
"geomagnetic",
"geomagnetic observatory",
"power grid",
"weather"
] | I found myself staring up at the sky on the night of March 13, 1989, with my girlfriend and her parents in the backyard of their house. The sky was on fire, almost literally. Red and pink sheets of plasma streamed out in a circle from directly overhead, with blue-white streaks like xenon flashes occasionally strobing a... | 56 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3519925",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T14:25:35",
"content": "“Most of the province of Québec sits atop a massive insulating sheet of igneous rock called the Canadian Shield, and the thin layer of soil stretched over it was soon conducting massive amounts of curren... | 1,760,374,873.491371 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/submersible-robots-hunt-lice-with-lasers/ | Submersible Robots Hunt Lice With Lasers | James Hobson | [
"drone hacks",
"Laser Hacks",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"agriculture",
"autonomous",
"drone",
"farming",
"Lasesr",
"livestock",
"robot",
"Salmon",
"submersible",
"underwater"
] | De-lousing is a trying agricultural process. It becomes a major problem in pens which contain the hundreds of thousands of salmon farmed by Norwegians — the world’s largest salmon exporter — an environment which allows the parasite to flourish. To tackle the problem, the Stingray, developed by [Stingray Marine Solution... | 54 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3519627",
"author": "Lars L.",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T11:11:36",
"content": "This won´t save extensive farming. it´s just a flight forward, and a denial of the causes of a problem.As usual with agro-industry….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,374,873.580683 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/10/pc-in-a-mouse/ | PC In A Mouse | Steven Dufresne | [
"computer hacks",
"Raspberry Pi",
"Slider"
] | [
"logitech",
"mouse",
"Orange Pi Zero"
] | [Slider2732] got his Orange Pi Zero working with a 3 watt amplifier, wireless keyboard (with built-in mouse), and car reversing monitor. But he needed a case to house it in. He remembered that he used to make parameters for ghost hunting by filling PC mouse cases with all sorts of electronics. So why not
put the Orange... | 37 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3518895",
"author": "richard",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T08:09:56",
"content": "What’s a “parameter for ghost hunting” and how do you make one?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3519797",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.2",
... | 1,760,374,873.910839 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/09/custom-media-center-maintains-look-of-70s-audio-components/ | Custom Media Center Maintains Look Of 70s Audio Components | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks",
"digital audio hacks"
] | [
"audiophile",
"Braun",
"component audio",
"hi-fi",
"mac mini",
"media center"
] | Slotting a modern media center into an old stereo usually means adding Bluetooth and a Raspberry Pi to an amp or receiver, and maybe adding a few discrete connectors on the back panel. But
this media center for a late-70s Braun hi-fi
(
translated
) goes many steps beyond that — it fabricates a component that never exis... | 20 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3518729",
"author": "richfiles",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T05:49:41",
"content": "At first, I was like “Where’s the add on?” Didn’t even realize one of the units wasn’t stock.Then I thought… Dang, that’s 1970s!? Where’s the faux wood grain? The giant chrome knobs? That thing looks se... | 1,760,374,873.634718 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/08/freertos-gets-class/ | FreeRTOS Gets Class | Al Williams | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Software Development"
] | [
"c++",
"FreeRTOS"
] | [Michael Becker] has been using FreeRTOS for about seven years. He decided to start adding some features and has a very interesting
C++ class wrapper for the OS
available.
Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) add functionality for single-thread microcontrollers to run multiple programs at the same time without threatenin... | 56 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3515665",
"author": "jouni",
"timestamp": "2017-04-09T05:09:44",
"content": "what is wrong using c++ in embedded? the cpus arent 8bit 4mhz anymore..",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3515682",
"author": "Vitaly",
... | 1,760,374,873.729364 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/08/a-grenade-launcher-named-rambo/ | A Grenade Launcher Named RAMBO | James Hobson | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Weapons Hacks"
] | [
"Additive",
"grenade",
"gun",
"launcher",
"manufacturing",
"RAMBo",
"U.S. Army"
] | Always one to push the envelope, U.S. Army researchers from the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) have been successfully experimenting with 3D printing for one of their latest technologies. The result?
RAMBO
— Rapid Additively Manufactured Ballistic Ordinance — a 40mm grenade launc... | 81 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3515474",
"author": "Eric",
"timestamp": "2017-04-09T02:14:56",
"content": "I’ve always found it juvenile how the US military names everything “Rambo,” “Predator,” “Reaper,” etc. It makes it seem like the people making these weapons live in a fantasy world where they don’t give any ... | 1,760,374,874.040934 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/08/brickerbot-takes-down-your-iot-devices-permanently/ | BrickerBot Takes Down Your IoT Devices Permanently | Adam Fabio | [
"News",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"BrickerBot",
"hackers",
"IoT",
"security"
] | There is a new class of virii in town, specifically targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. BrickerBot and its variants do exactly as their name says, turning your smart devices into bricks. Someone out there has gotten tired of all the IoT security flaws and has undertaken extreme (and illegal) measures to fix the... | 69 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3515398",
"author": "some guy",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T23:21:08",
"content": ">a system taken down like this can be recovered by re-flashingif you can get the firmware/memory-image somewhere…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "... | 1,760,374,874.200144 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/08/hackaday-prize-entry-an-electric-longboard/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: An Electric Longboard | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"electric longboard",
"longboard"
] | The Hackaday Prize is in full swing, and that means we’re starting to see all the builds a few select people have been saving up for the past few months. [yowhwui] has been working on
a 3D printed electric longboard
for a while now, and this build is really solid. He already has over 150km on the odometer, and the 3D p... | 15 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3515319",
"author": "ShRT",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T20:30:31",
"content": "Anyone know of an alternative to the RC controller? I’ve been searching with the plan of making a scooter version of these but no Search so far has turned up anything. Had been thinking around using the thro... | 1,760,374,874.093357 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/08/8-3d-printed-photo-turntable-uses-upcycled-parts/ | $8 3D Printed Photo Turntable Uses Upcycled Parts | Adam Fabio | [
"classic hacks",
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"camera",
"photography",
"turntable",
"videography"
] | Whether you’re selling a product or just showing off your latest project, a photo turntable makes video shots a lot easier. 360° turntables allow the viewer to see every side of the object being photographed, while the camera stays locked down. Motorized turntables are available as commercial products costing anywhere... | 14 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3514941",
"author": "PWalsh",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T17:30:30",
"content": "Damn! Those are some nice projects!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3514965",
"author": "Larry Schremp",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T18:04:09",
... | 1,760,374,874.308258 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/08/everyone-loves-faster-esp8266-tft-libs/ | Everyone Loves Faster ESP8266 TFT Libs | Elliot Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"Microcontrollers"
] | [
"arduino",
"ESP8266",
"ILI9341",
"TFT display",
"TFT LCD"
] | Reader [Jasper] writes in with glowing praise for the
TFT_eSPI library
for the ESP8266 and the various cheap 480×320 TFT displays (ILI9341, ILI9163, ST7735, S6D02A1, etc.) that support SPI mode. It’s a drop-in replacement for the Adafruit GFX and driver libraries, so you don’t need to rework your code to take advantage... | 24 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3514718",
"author": "CMH62",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T14:44:33",
"content": "Software infrastructure isn’t sexy? Please say it isn’t so! ;-)Very useful article, Elliot. Thank you. I’ve tweeted out a link on it as well.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
... | 1,760,374,874.261518 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/08/puffer-a-smartphone-sized-planetary-explorer/ | PUFFER: A Smartphone-Sized Planetary Explorer | James Hobson | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"Europa",
"exploration",
"instruments",
"mars",
"nasa",
"science"
] | Is there room on Mars and Europa for cute robots? [NASA] — collaborating with [UC Berkley] and [Distant Focus Corporation] — have the answer:
PUFFER, a robot inspired by origami
.
PUFFER — which stands for Pop-Up Flat-Folding Explorer Robot — is able to sense objects and adjust its profile accordingly by ‘folding’ itse... | 13 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3514621",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T11:31:40",
"content": "A robot that can do the limbo.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3514627",
"author": "yeti",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T11:48:14",
... | 1,760,374,874.362877 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/09/generator-monitor-gives-the-phone-company-the-boot/ | Generator Monitor Gives The Phone Company The Boot | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Wireless Hacks"
] | [
"controller",
"generac evolution",
"generator",
"python",
"raspberry pi"
] | Part of the problem with having an alarm system is its reliance on land line telephone service. Some of them are getting away from this practice, but there are still many legacy systems out there that require a check to be sent in to Ma Bell every month in addition to the alarm system fees. Like these antiquated system... | 23 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3518606",
"author": "TheRegnirps.",
"timestamp": "2017-04-10T04:03:29",
"content": "I think the reason for using a cell modem is that the cell system stays up when the wired systems go down in storm, earthquake, flood, etc. I don’t see how connecting to the serial port of a Pi does ... | 1,760,374,874.423928 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/09/hackaday-links-april-9-2017/ | Hackaday Links: April 9, 2017 | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"alcohol",
"bar",
"Captain Crunch",
"foundry",
"libreboot",
"tinnitus"
] | [Federico Musto], one of the Arduinos in the
Arduino vs. Arduino saga
(which finally
came to an end last September
) may have fabricated his academic record.
This news comes from Wired
, providing documents from the registrars at MIT and NYU stating [Musto] never attended these institutions. Since this story came out, ... | 35 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3518475",
"author": "???? ????",
"timestamp": "2017-04-09T23:06:55",
"content": "Captain Crunch knows Woz et al, right? Woz is worth $100 million. Need I point out the obvious?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3518476",
... | 1,760,374,874.54204 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/09/hackaday-prize-entry-obsolete-time-lite/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Obsolete Time Lite | Jenny List | [
"clock hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"altoids tin",
"Hackaday Prize",
"nixie",
"nixie clock"
] | There are very few constants in the world of home-made electronics. Things that you might have found on the bench of a mid-1960s engineer working with germanium PNP transistors just as much as you might find on the bench of one in 2017 working on 32-bit microcontrollers. One of these constants is the humble Altoids tin... | 13 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3518388",
"author": "Saabman",
"timestamp": "2017-04-09T20:14:45",
"content": "I’ve scored a couple of altoid tins from globe trotting relatives. but alas, the altoid form factor largely eludes the Australian constructor.We used to have Strepsil throat lozenges in a similarly sized... | 1,760,374,874.471346 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/09/industrial-indicator-makes-the-move-from-plc-to-fpga/ | Industrial Indicator Makes The Move From PLC To FPGA | Dan Maloney | [
"hardware"
] | [
"cluster",
"Halloween props",
"incandescent",
"indicator",
"industrial",
"led",
"plc"
] | Industrial controls are fun to use in a build because they’re just so — well, industrial. They’re chunky and built to take a beating, both from the operating environment and the users. They’re often power guzzlers, though, so knowing
how to convert an industrial indicator for microcontroller use
might be a handy skill ... | 8 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3518105",
"author": "SebiR",
"timestamp": "2017-04-09T17:54:34",
"content": "Simon Says, anyone?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3518112",
"author": "colinstu",
"timestamp": "2017-04-09T18:03:43",
"cont... | 1,760,374,874.58613 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/09/the-cubic-cyphercon-badge/ | The Cubic Cyphercon Badge | Brian Benchoff | [
"cons"
] | [
"badge",
"conference badges",
"cube",
"Cyphercon",
"Electronic badges",
"pcb"
] | Last week in Milwaukee was Cyphercon, Wisconsin’s premier hacker conference. You can’t do a hacker con without either an electronic conference badge or a 45 hanging off a lanyard, and the Cyphercon 2017 badge doesn’t disappoint.
It’s an electronic cube
, lovingly designed by the folks at tymkrs. It’s also a puzzle box ... | 21 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3517711",
"author": "Oliver",
"timestamp": "2017-04-09T15:03:04",
"content": "Thats a sexy badge!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3517964",
"author": "dave",
"timestamp": "2017-04-09T16:05:35",
"content": "There is n... | 1,760,374,874.864517 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/09/shoelace-locks-keep-your-fancy-footwear-firmly-attached/ | Shoelace Locks Keep Your Fancy Footwear Firmly Attached | Adam Fabio | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Wearable Hacks"
] | [
"shoelace locks",
"shoes",
"sneakers",
"velcro"
] | Remember the 1980s, when velcro sneakers were the hip new thing? (Incidentally, VELCRO® is a registered trademark for VELCRO® brank hook-and-loop fasteners but we use it here as a general term for the fastening technology). Only the coolest kids in school had a fresh pair of Zips. Velcro left a bit to be desired though... | 25 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "3516856",
"author": "Dave Davidson",
"timestamp": "2017-04-09T11:27:17",
"content": "This was not designed around the game of Roshambo.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3516881",
"author": "lawrencesroberts",
"timestamp":... | 1,760,374,874.812149 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/09/how-to-hack-your-own-password/ | How To Hack Your Own Password | Brian Benchoff | [
"internet hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"I did nazi that coming",
"lel",
"memes",
"reddit"
] | [Haseeb] failed the marshmallow test as a kid. He has no self-control. He wastes a lot of time on reddit. There is a solution to this problem — simply lock yourself out of your account. The process is simple, and all you need to do is change your password to something random, change the recovery email address, and clic... | 10 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3516240",
"author": "fest",
"timestamp": "2017-04-09T08:47:06",
"content": "I __solved__ a similar problem by generating random password, placing that in clipboard and printing MD5 hash of the password. I then used the clipboard contents to change the password on sites I wanted to l... | 1,760,374,875.633933 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/08/getting-a-measure-on-particulates-in-stuttgart/ | Getting A Measure On Particulates In Stuttgart | Elliot Williams | [
"green hacks"
] | [
"citizen science",
"distributed",
"environment",
"Monitoring",
"network",
"pollution"
] | There’s a big to-do going on right now in Germany over particulate-matter air pollution. Stuttgart, Germany’s “motor city” and one of Dante’s seven circles of Hell during rush hour, had the nation’s first-ever air pollution alert last year. Cities are considering banning older diesel cars outright. So far, Stuttgart’s ... | 37 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "3514351",
"author": "Afonso Duarte",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T08:44:53",
"content": "I don’t do German well and google translate doesn’t help. Am i missing the source code? Only saw the .bin.There are clients here –https://github.com/opendata-stuttgart– but not for the ESP8266.",
... | 1,760,374,877.557109 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/07/easy-free-piston-stirling-engine/ | Easy Free Piston Stirling Engine | Manuel Rodriguez-Achach | [
"classic hacks",
"Engine Hacks"
] | [
"engine",
"free piston",
"stirling engine"
] | Stirling engines are really cool machines, invented by
Reverend Dr. Robert Stirling
in 1816 to rival the steam engine, they are one of the most efficient engines ever conceived. Building one is a very rewarding experience, but it has a certain level of difficulty. However, [Attila Blade]’s version of a
free-piston typ... | 22 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3514623",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T11:34:07",
"content": "“Dr. Robert Stirling in 1816 to rival the steam engine, they are one of the most efficient engines ever conceived.”I’m sure there are reasons this “efficient” engine isn’t more widespread.",
"parent_... | 1,760,374,877.941114 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/07/build-your-own-high-power-air-cannon-out-of-pvc/ | Build Your Own High Power Air Cannon Out Of PVC | Brian Benchoff | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"High power pvc air cannon",
"PVC",
"PVC air cannon"
] | [NightHawkInLight] a.k.a. [Ben]
recently built an awesome high power air cannon out of PVC pipe
. PVC air cannons are great, and everyone should build one of these at some point in their life, but what really makes this build exceptional is the valve. [Ben] created a piston valve for this cannon that can be built with ... | 41 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3513718",
"author": "Jeff",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T02:04:33",
"content": "meh, when you can shoot a golf ball through a car door, come see me :P",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3513721",
"author": "Pirate Tom",
... | 1,760,374,877.440057 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/07/star-trek-desktop-viewer-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/ | Star Trek Desktop Viewer In The Palm Of Your Hand! | James Hobson | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"beetle",
"Desktop Viewer",
"display",
"mini",
"oled",
"star",
"trek"
] | There’s building small computers — like the Raspberry Pi — and then there’s building small computers — like this
Desktop Viewer from Star Trek
.
[Monta Elkins] is using a Beetle for this project; it’s an Arduino clone, hosting the ATMega32U4 microcontroller, with a unique feature that allows you to twist connecting wir... | 8 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3513878",
"author": "notarealemail",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T06:12:17",
"content": "LOL, Robot Chicken on HaD!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3514066",
"author": "BrightBlueJim",
"timestamp": "2017-04-08T07:52:16",
... | 1,760,374,877.481766 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/07/popping-the-top-of-a-ceramic-ic/ | Popping The Top Of A Ceramic IC | Al Williams | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"ceramic",
"decapsulation",
"ic",
"map gas",
"map gas torch",
"map torch",
"passivation"
] | If you’ve ever wanted to open up an IC to see what’s inside it, you have a few options. The ceramic packages with a metal lid will succumb to a hobby knife. That’s easy. The common epoxy packages are harder, and usually require a mix of mechanical milling and the use of an acid (like fuming nitric, for example). [Rober... | 31 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "3513465",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2017-04-07T20:12:07",
"content": "Did anyone else read that as “Pooping on Top of A Ceramic IC” ;)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3513550",
"author": "meh",
"timesta... | 1,760,374,877.626928 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/07/hackaday-prize-entry-wifi-in-wall-switches/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: WiFi In Wall Switches | Brian Benchoff | [
"home hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize"
] | The Internet of Things and Home Automation are the next big thing, even though we’ve had X10 switches and controllers for forty years. Why the sudden interest in home automation? Cheap microcontrollers with WiFi, ZigBee, and Z-wave, apparently. For this Hackaday Prize entry, [Knudt]
is building a WiFi switch
, meant to... | 28 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3513251",
"author": "drburkstrom",
"timestamp": "2017-04-07T18:46:58",
"content": "It’s odd no-one thinks there’s a market for ready made, open source, hackable IoT devices. Something like this, for example, but with all the documentation and everything needed to re-program it yours... | 1,760,374,877.887972 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/07/platformio-and-visual-studio-take-over-the-world/ | PlatformIO And Visual Studio Take Over The World | Al Williams | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"ARM",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Reviews",
"Skills"
] | [
"arduino",
"atom ide",
"ide",
"Integrated development environment",
"platformio",
"stm32",
"stm32duino",
"visual studio code"
] | In
a recent post
, I talked about using the “Blue Pill” STM32 module with the Arduino IDE. I’m not a big fan of the Arduino IDE, but I will admit it is simple to use which makes it good for simple things.
I’m not a big fan of integrated development environments (IDE), in general. I’ve used plenty of them, especially wh... | 40 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "3513059",
"author": "Mik",
"timestamp": "2017-04-07T17:28:44",
"content": "Typo: “mBed libraries _are_ written”Thanks for the article!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3513560",
"author": "Al Williams",
"timesta... | 1,760,374,877.824036 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/retrotechtacular-a-walk-in-broadcast-transmitter/ | A Walk-In Broadcast Transmitter | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks",
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"am",
"broadcast",
"studio",
"transmitter",
"tube"
] | [Mr. Carlson] likes electronics gear. Mostly old gear. The grayer the case, the greener the phosphors, and the more hammertone, the better. That’s why we’re not surprised to see him with a mammoth AM radio station transmitter in his shop. That it’s
a transmitter that you can walk into while it’s energized
was a bit of ... | 20 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3508128",
"author": "werecatf",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T06:34:09",
"content": "“once the plate power supply is shut down, of course” — Pfft, weakling!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3508528",
"author": "richfiles",
"ti... | 1,760,374,877.741375 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/flux-capacitor-prop-with-christopher-lloyds-stamp-of-approval/ | Flux Capacitor Prop With Christopher Lloyd’s Stamp Of Approval | James Hobson | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"back to the future",
"capacitor",
"flux",
"led",
"motion sensor",
"prop",
"replica"
] | We love our props here at Hackaday, and whenever we come across a piece from the Back To The Future fandom, it’s hard to resist showcasing it. In this case, [Xyster101] is showing of his build of Doc Brown’s
Flux Capacitor
.
[Xyster101] opted for a plywood case — much more economical than the $125 it would have cost hi... | 20 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3507442",
"author": "macona",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T02:18:56",
"content": "The glass tubes and the cylindrical parts that make up the flux capacitor are actually vacuum relays from Torr Industries, I think. Got a bunch of them a couple years ago in a power supply I bought for par... | 1,760,374,877.682879 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/vcf-popular-electronics-and-southwest-technical-products-corporation/ | VCF: Popular Electronics And Southwest Technical Products Corporation | Brian Benchoff | [
"classic hacks",
"cons"
] | [
"popular electronics",
"SWTPC",
"VCF",
"VCF East",
"Vintage Computer Festival"
] | Hackaday owes a lot to the hobbyist electronics magazines of yesteryear. Back in the day,
Popular Electronics
and
Radio-Electronics
would publish projects and articles about DIY electronics – more or less the same editorial purview we hold today. Some of these projects would become full-fledged products, and you need o... | 35 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "3507392",
"author": "forthprgrmr",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T00:35:45",
"content": "And don’t forget the power amps from SWTP.I’ve still got my Tiger.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3507409",
"author": "dcfusor2015",
... | 1,760,374,878.020861 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/iot-startup-bricks-customers-garage-door-intentionally/ | IOT Startup Bricks Customers Garage Door Intentionally | Jack Laidlaw | [
"News",
"Slider"
] | [
"automatic garage door opener",
"bricked",
"Crowd Funding",
"fail",
"home automation",
"internet of things",
"IoT",
"remote access",
"server"
] | Internet of Things startup Garadget
remotely bricked
an unhappy customer’s WiFi garage door for giving a bad Amazon review and being rude to company reps. Garadget device owner [Robert Martin] found out the hard way how quickly the device can turn a door into a wall. After leaving a negative
Amazon review
, and
startin... | 202 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "3507191",
"author": "daqq",
"timestamp": "2017-04-05T20:08:50",
"content": "The internet of things that worked perfectly fine (possibly even better) without internet. Seriously, why would someone install an IoT garage door?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,374,878.614163 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/hackaday-prize-entry-modular-instrumentation-for-aircraft/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Modular Instrumentation For Aircraft | Brian Benchoff | [
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"aviation",
"experimental aircraft",
"light sport aircraft",
"microlight",
"ultralight"
] | Parts, tools, and components for aviation and aerospace are sold in ‘Aviation Monetary Units’ (AMU). Right now, the conversion factor from USD to AMU is about 1000 to 1. This stuff is expensive, but there is a small portion of the flying community that prides itself on not breaking the bank every time something needs t... | 18 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3507152",
"author": "FirmwareHacker",
"timestamp": "2017-04-05T18:59:37",
"content": "The picture at the top is not really an aircraft. It is better described as “flying lawn furniture”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3507156... | 1,760,374,878.242896 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/world-create-day-the-hackaday-event-in-your-town/ | World Create Day: The Hackaday Event In Your Town | Mike Szczys | [
"cons",
"Featured",
"Slider",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"WDC17",
"World Create Day"
] | It’s official,
World Create Day is on April 22nd
. Get together with hackers in your area and create something! This is best way to meet all the Hackaday readers in your area, and a great excuse to carve out a few hours of your busy life to have fun working on a project.
These are really easy to organize, but we can’t ... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3507339",
"author": "Haydn Jones",
"timestamp": "2017-04-05T22:56:45",
"content": "Anyone in south Wales or west of England interested?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3509680",
"author": "Dylan",
"timestamp": "2017-04-0... | 1,760,374,878.290172 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/friday-hack-chat-breaking-security-with-samy-kamkar/ | Friday Hack Chat: Breaking Security With Samy Kamkar | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"Hack Chat",
"Samy",
"samy kamkar",
"security"
] | [Samy Kamkar] is a hardware hacker extraordinaire. This week, he’s joining us on Hackaday.io
for this week’s Hack Chat
.
Every week, we find someone interesting that makes or breaks the electronic paraphernalia all around us. We sit them down, and get them to spill the beans on how this stuff works, and how we can get ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3506852",
"author": "Matt Cramer",
"timestamp": "2017-04-05T16:16:14",
"content": "You need to mark that bitmap with “If this were a virus, you’d be dead by now. Fortunately, it’s not. How’s your security? Contact Samy Kamkar and Associates today!”",
"parent_id": null,
"dept... | 1,760,374,878.661487 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/06/remotely-get-root-on-most-smart-tvs-with-radio-signals/ | Remotely Get Root On Most Smart TVs With Radio Signals | Jack Laidlaw | [
"Network Hacks",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"DVB-T",
"get root",
"IOT hack",
"iot security",
"rooted",
"smart tv",
"smart tv hack",
"ssh",
"tv exploit"
] | [Rafael Scheel] a security consultant has found that
hacking smart TVs
takes nothing much more than an inexpensive DVB-T transmitter, The transmitter has to be in range of the target TV and some malicious signals. The hack works by exploiting
hybrid broadcast broadband TV
signals and widely known about bugs in web brow... | 58 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "3509879",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.2",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T20:34:49",
"content": "Well at least you can do something with them when they’re a couple of years old and youtube and netflix change their API and you can’t update the onboard apps.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1... | 1,760,374,878.932473 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/06/hackaday-prize-entry-pocket-serial-terminal/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Pocket Serial Terminal | Jenny List | [
"ARM",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"DEC VT100",
"terminal",
"vt100"
] | When you have a microcontroller or other microcomputer on the bench in front of you and it lacks the familiar keyboard and display of a modern desktop computer, what do you do when you wish to program it or otherwise issue commands? Unless you are a retro computer enthusiast who longs for a set of Altair-style toggle s... | 37 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3509808",
"author": "jeppedy",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T18:37:16",
"content": "This got me thinking.I don’t need much more than something that reads a serial port and prints the output. I could hook it up to all my Arduinos as needed to do portable debugging.Has anyone done this yet... | 1,760,374,878.838075 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/06/the-best-of-vcf-east/ | The Best Of VCF East | Brian Benchoff | [
"classic hacks",
"cons",
"Featured",
"Roundup"
] | [
"VCF",
"VCF East",
"Vintage Computer Festival"
] | Last weekend was the Vintage Computer Festival East in Wall, New Jersey. While this yearly gathering of nerds nerding out on old computers might be a bit too obscure for some, there are always amazing exhibits of actual historical importance.
A few Enigma machines showed up
, and the
rarest Commodore goodies made an ap... | 21 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3509858",
"author": "Dumb cheesemo miner",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T20:04:04",
"content": "I saw a springboard style circuit ala the radio shack xxx-in-1 kits, clicked this page and was rewarded with nothing of the sort. Total click bait Brian. Good read though, the link collection ... | 1,760,374,879.097058 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/06/hacking-a-vintage-tv-into-an-oscilloscope/ | Hacking A Vintage TV Into An Oscilloscope | Manuel Rodriguez-Achach | [
"classic hacks",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"analog tv",
"crt hacks",
"oscilloscope"
] | Do you still have an old analog CRT television lying around? With the advent of digital signals, analog TV´s are going to the dumpster or the recycling center. But you can still put them to good use, just as [GreatScott!] did, by
converting the TV into a crude oscilloscope
.
The trick is to take control of the two def... | 15 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3509605",
"author": "Dave",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T16:15:13",
"content": "My understanding has always been that magnetic deflection is too slow versus the electrostatic deflection used in CRT ‘scopes.I’d be interested in knowing what sort of bandwidth can be realized here… just to... | 1,760,374,878.763249 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/06/tracking-index-test/ | Tracking Index Test | Anool Mahidharia | [
"Curated",
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns"
] | [
"ASTM",
"Comparative Tracking Index",
"CTI",
"IEC",
"PTI",
"Safety Testing",
"Tracking Index",
"UL"
] | In an earlier article, I covered
Fire Hazard Tests
that form an important part of safety testing for electronic/electrical products. We looked at the standards and equipment used for abnormal heat, glowing wire and flame tests. A typical compliance test report for an appliance, such as a toaster, will be a fairly long ... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "3509807",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.2",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T18:35:51",
"content": "We don’t do boring old toasters. Article fails to relate this to an application “we” may be interested in, like ensuring your homebrew supercaps don’t short or something. Touch base with us, this was... | 1,760,374,878.715064 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/06/3d-printed-key-code-is-plastic-digital-logic/ | 3D Printed Key-Code Is Plastic Digital Logic | James Hobson | [
"3d Printer hacks",
"computer hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"Bistable",
"code",
"door",
"key",
"lock",
"mechanism",
"Metamaterial",
"spring"
] | 3D printers are great for creating static objects, but if you’re clever, it’s possible to print functional devices. If you’re absolutely brilliant you can go far beyond that, which is the case here. This door handle with a key-code lock does it all with 3D printing using mechanism designs that look like alien technolog... | 31 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3509186",
"author": "wartoaster",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T12:00:41",
"content": "How long until we see a turing-complete machine with this technology?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3509437",
"author": "Haneef Mubara... | 1,760,374,879.005479 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/06/build-your-own-in-fridge-soda-fountain/ | Build Your Own In-Fridge Soda Fountain | Lewin Day | [
"cooking hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"aquarium pump",
"food safe",
"fridge",
"pump",
"pumps",
"soda",
"soda fountain"
] | Who doesn’t love an ice cold soda? Lots of people, probably. This one’s not for them. It’s for those of us that are tired of having to go through the arduous process of manually opening a bottle and pouring a drink. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could have your own soda fountain at home?
[Kedar Nimbalkar] thought so, and ... | 88 | 21 | [
{
"comment_id": "3508549",
"author": "Jouni",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T08:10:38",
"content": "No.And please just stop drinking sugar water.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3508654",
"author": "Artenz",
"timestamp": "2017-04-06T... | 1,760,374,879.222742 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/04/gigabytes-the-dust-with-uefi-vulnerabilities/ | Gigabytes The Dust With UEFI Vulnerabilities | Jack Laidlaw | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"bios",
"blackhat",
"Brix",
"cryptography",
"fail",
"Gigabyte",
"malware",
"ransomware",
"UEFI",
"vulnerabilities",
"vulnerability"
] | At this year’s BlackHat Asia security conference, researchers from
Cylance
disclosed two potentially fatal flaws in the UEFI firmware of Gigabyte BRIX small computers which allow a would-be attacker unfettered low-level access to the computer.
Gigabyte has been working on a fix since the start of 2017. Gigabyte are pre... | 46 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "3503851",
"author": "Yann Guidon / YGDES",
"timestamp": "2017-04-04T20:06:20",
"content": "There can be no free software without free hardware…Just saying.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3503868",
"author": "RW ver 0.... | 1,760,374,879.30448 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/04/hackaday-prize-entry-micro-matrix-charlieplexed-displays/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Micro Matrix Charlieplexed Displays | Brian Benchoff | [
"LED Hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"charlieplexed",
"charlieplexing",
"led"
] | If you need a very thin, low power display that doesn’t use a whole bunch of pins on your microcontroller, [bobricius] has just the thing for you. His entry to the Hackaday Prize this year is a
Charlieplexed LED display
. With this board, you can drive 110 LEDs using only 11 GPIO pins.
Charlieplexing is a bit of a dark... | 9 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "3503816",
"author": "Absolutelyautomation",
"timestamp": "2017-04-04T19:10:34",
"content": "Remember some years ago hackaday featured a theardown and reverse engineer of a chinese led badge signhttp://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/NZBmYjEthat is powered by 3v coin cell. Havn’t reversed e... | 1,760,374,879.349488 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/04/the-shocking-truth-about-transformerless-power-supplies/ | The Shocking Truth About Transformerless Power Supplies | Elliot Williams | [
"Engineering",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Slider",
"Teardown"
] | [
"Galvanic Isolation",
"Isolation Transformer",
"power supply",
"safety",
"teardown",
"transformerless"
] | Transformerless power supplies are showing up a lot here on Hackaday, especially in inexpensive products where the cost of a transformer would add significantly to the BOM. But transformerless power supplies are a double-edged sword. That title? Not clickbait. Poking around in a transformerless-powered device can turn ... | 114 | 40 | [
{
"comment_id": "3503526",
"author": "Reg",
"timestamp": "2017-04-04T17:11:19",
"content": "Ah, yes. AC/DC radios. I’ll never forget them. At age 12 or so I decided the radio I was using for broadcast bad DXing needed a ground for better reception. I *did* get better reception. After I replaced... | 1,760,374,879.851525 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/04/canary-for-usb-ports/ | Canary For USB Ports | Michael Uttmark | [
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"bad usb",
"canary",
"free software",
"usb"
] | If you’re a paranoid system admin, [errbufferoverfl] has your back with software that keeps track of whenever someone plugs in or disconnects an USB-based device from a workstation.
Christened USB Canary
, [errbufferoverfl’s] tool is written in Python. However, even though Python is cross-platform, USB Canary only work... | 12 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3503444",
"author": "Myrddin",
"timestamp": "2017-04-04T15:44:24",
"content": "So this is for the people that fall somewhere between “Oh, I wonder what is on this random USB drive I found in the Parking Lot” and “All my USB ports are filled with Binary Epoxy” on the paranoid scale?"... | 1,760,374,879.507913 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/04/how-many-parts-in-a-triumph-herald-heater/ | How Many Parts In A Triumph Herald Heater? | Jenny List | [
"car hacks",
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"History",
"Slider"
] | [
"automobile",
"car",
"car heater",
"heater",
"manufacturing",
"mass production",
"triumph herald"
] | This Herald is in much better condition than my 12/50 was.
Philafrenzy
[CC BY-SA 4.0]
What was your first car? Mine was a 1965 Triumph Herald 12/50 in conifer green, and to be frank, it was a bit of a dog.
The Triumph Herald is a small saloon car manufactured between about 1959 and 1971. If you are British your grandpa... | 67 | 23 | [
{
"comment_id": "3503363",
"author": "DainBramage",
"timestamp": "2017-04-04T14:22:00",
"content": "Interesting comparisons in this article, Jenny. Thanks for sharing it!And despite being an American, I have indeed heard of the Triumph Herald. Probably due to spending years and years watching Britis... | 1,760,374,879.689065 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/04/how-to-find-a-twitter-account/ | How To Find A Twitter Account | Michael Uttmark | [
"internet hacks"
] | [
"fbi",
"instagram",
"james comey",
"twitter"
] | [Ashley Feinberg] is not one to say no to a challenge. When James Comey (the current Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the United States of America) let slip that he has a secret Twitter and Instagram account,
[Ashley] knew what she had to do.
At the beginning, [Ashley] knew only a few things: (1) Com... | 35 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3502891",
"author": "lvta1027",
"timestamp": "2017-04-04T11:07:19",
"content": "Tweets are now protected and only confirmed followers can see them.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3503368",
"author": "DainBramage",
... | 1,760,374,879.580605 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/04/hackaday-io-user-reviews-six-stm32-ides/ | Hackaday.io User Reviews Six STM32 IDEs | Al Williams | [
"ARM",
"Software Development"
] | [
"arm",
"bluepill",
"hackaday.io",
"ide",
"stm32"
] | One of the issues with getting started with any Arm-based project is picking a toolset. Some of us here just use the command line with our favorite editor, but we know that doesn’t suit many people–they want a modern IDE. But which one to choose? User [Wassim] faced this problem, evaluated six different options for STM... | 52 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "3502053",
"author": "Squonk42",
"timestamp": "2017-04-04T08:48:09",
"content": "It should also include the Arduino IDE!Certainly not the best in the world and without debug facility, but the easiest to handle for a novice in software development, and probably he most documented one ... | 1,760,374,879.946285 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/chess-ai-old-school/ | Chess AI, Old School | Al Williams | [
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"ai",
"chess",
"game tree",
"javascript",
"minmax"
] | People have been interested in chess-playing computers before there were any chess-playing computers. In a 1950 paper, [Claude Shannon] defined two major chess-playing strategies. Apparently, practical chess programs still use the techniques he outlined. If you’ve ever wondered how to make a computer play chess [FreeCo... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3500881",
"author": "jwrm22",
"timestamp": "2017-04-04T05:32:03",
"content": "I became interested in chess programming a few years ago.The old 80’s chess computers are realy interesting. Mainly with a 8bit micro controller and little memory.I’ve still haven’t programmed my own chess... | 1,760,374,879.987965 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/stereo-microscope-teardown/ | Stereo Microscope Teardown | Anool Mahidharia | [
"LED Hacks",
"Teardown"
] | [] | Stereo microscopes are very handy tools, especially for a lot of hackers who now regularly assemble, test and debug SMD circuits using parts as small as grains of sand. We have seen a lot of stereo microscope hacks here at Hackaday, so it helps to take a look inside one to understand how they work. Thanks to [noq2]’s
t... | 19 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3500726",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.2",
"timestamp": "2017-04-04T02:04:01",
"content": "You won’t be too impressed with lack of plastics in some older optical instruments that have pot metal parts and appear to be gettinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_pestor similar.",
"parent_i... | 1,760,374,880.042776 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/have-you-ever-tried-desoldering-needles/ | Have You Ever Tried Desoldering Needles? | Jenny List | [
"Slider",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"desoldering",
"desoldering needles",
"desoldering tools",
"through hole"
] | If you are an electronics enthusiast who has a tendency to hoard junk because it Might Be Useful Someday, you may well have a significant experience when it comes to desoldering. Why order that component, when you’ve got one on this old board?
So we’ve become experts in removing old components from dead PCBs, so when i... | 58 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "3500620",
"author": "CRImier",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T23:14:05",
"content": "Finally somebody said this; desoldering needles are one of those things that are irreplaceable in certain types of rework. For example, there are LCD monitor inverter boards with transformers, and those a... | 1,760,374,880.13354 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/california-looks-to-compel-iot-security/ | California Looks To Compel IoT Security | Charles Alexanian | [
"News",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"california",
"internet of things",
"iot security",
"law",
"legislation",
"SB 327"
] | There is a bill going through committee in the state of California which, if passed, would require a minium level of security for Internet of Things devices and then some.
California SB 327
Information privacy: connected devices
in its original form calls for connected device manufacturers to secure their devices, prot... | 32 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "3500506",
"author": "Ren",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T20:08:23",
"content": "It sounds like a good idea, but if/when it makes it to the Governor’s desk, it just may make IoT less secure.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "3500511",
... | 1,760,374,880.275555 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/hackaday-prize-entry-electric-variable-pitch-props/ | Hackaday Prize Entry: Electric Variable Pitch Props | Brian Benchoff | [
"drone hacks",
"The Hackaday Prize"
] | [
"2017 Hackaday Prize",
"drone",
"quadcopter",
"variable pitch"
] | Barring the smallest manned airplanes, most aircraft that are pulled around by a prop have variable pitch propellers. The reason for this is simple efficiency. Internal combustion engines are most efficient at a specific RPM, and instead of giving the engine more gas to speed up, pilots can simply change the pitch of a... | 39 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "3500457",
"author": "Ross Reed",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T18:44:48",
"content": "It seems like it would take more torque than wireless power could provide.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3500465",
"author": "plouc",
... | 1,760,374,880.208714 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/lego-liquid-handler-and-big-biology/ | LEGO Liquid Handler And Big Biology | Dan Maloney | [
"chemistry hacks",
"Hackaday Columns",
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"automation",
"laboratory",
"lego",
"liquid handler",
"mindstorms",
"pipette",
"stem",
"syringe"
] | A career as a lab biologist can take many forms, but the general public seems to see it as a lone, lab-coated researcher sitting at a bench, setting up a series of in vitro experiments by hand in small tubes or streaking out a little yeast on an agar plate. That’s not inaccurate at all – all of us lab rats have done ti... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3500414",
"author": "David",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T17:53:55",
"content": "Nice! I coach a FIRST Lego League team, definitely need to show them this the next time we meet. I bet they’ll get a kick out of seeing the robotics kit they’ve been using all year, being used for real scie... | 1,760,374,880.319324 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/vcf-east-enigma-machines-in-the-flesh/ | VCF East: Enigma Machines In The Flesh | Brian Benchoff | [
"classic hacks",
"cons"
] | [
"Cipher",
"cipher machine",
"codebreaking",
"enigma",
"enigma machine",
"VCF",
"VCF East"
] | At the end of World War II, the Germans ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed. Around the same time, Churchill ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed. Add a few decades, neglect the efforts of Polish codebreakers, and make a movie about Alan Turing and an offensively historically incorrect love interest, a... | 13 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3500327",
"author": "mkomarinski",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T15:39:55",
"content": "The MIT Flea Market has had an Enigma display for years. I remember one of the first years it was on display and it was in pretty decent shape but missing a rotor wheel. I don’t think it’s been arou... | 1,760,374,880.533864 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/the-other-way-to-brick-a-mac-classic/ | The Other Way To Brick A Mac Classic | Dan Maloney | [
"classic hacks",
"Mac Hacks"
] | [
"e-paper",
"lego",
"LEGO Digital Designer",
"mac",
"mac Classic",
"macintosh",
"Raspberry Pi Zero"
] | Why would you build
a mini Mac Classic using LEGO and a Raspberry Pi?
Well, why wouldn’t you?
[Jannis Hermanns] couldn’t find a reason to control this outburst of nostalgia for the good old days of small, expensive computers and long hours spent clawing through the LEGO bin to find The Perfect Piece to finish a build. ... | 7 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "3506782",
"author": "thel3l",
"timestamp": "2017-04-05T15:48:35",
"content": "sees ‘LEGO’sees ‘mac classic’get excited.sees ‘dremel’cries himself to sleep.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3506915",
"author": "localhost... | 1,760,374,880.47406 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/introducing-the-mensch-microcomputer/ | Introducing The MENSCH Microcomputer | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Reviews"
] | [
"6502",
"65816",
"65c265",
"WDC",
"Western Design Center"
] | A few weeks ago, I was browsing Tindie on one of my daily trawls for something interesting to write about. I came across something I hadn’t seen before.
The Mensch Microcomputer
is a product from Western Design Center (WDC) that puts a microcontroller based on the 65xx core on a small breakout board.
I’ve played around... | 62 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3506699",
"author": "RW ver 0.0.2",
"timestamp": "2017-04-05T14:19:37",
"content": "BRB, this and SID reloaded, off to Kickstart a handheld C64…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3518625",
"author": "Nitori",
"ti... | 1,760,374,880.644536 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/landscape-to-portrait-at-the-click-of-a-mouse/ | Landscape To Portrait At The Click Of A Mouse | Dan Maloney | [
"Misc Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"landscape",
"monitor",
"portrait",
"stand",
"stepper",
"swivel"
] | Modern 16:9 aspect ratio monitors may be great for watching a widescreen movie on Netflix, but for most PDFs, Word documents, and certain web pages, landscape just won’t do. But if you’re not writing the next great American novel and aren’t willing to commit to portrait mode, don’t — build
an auto-rotating monitor
to s... | 40 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "3506253",
"author": "rasz_pl",
"timestamp": "2017-04-05T11:57:59",
"content": "was expecting something useful, but this is grannys stairlift, almost comical how useless this is compared to just moving your arm that excruciating 30cm up",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"r... | 1,760,374,880.828342 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/05/learn-neural-network-and-evolution-theory-fast/ | Learn Neural Network And Evolution Theory Fast | Jack Laidlaw | [
"how-to",
"Slider",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"evolution",
"neural net",
"neural network",
"neural networks",
"not a hack",
"simulation",
"software"
] | [carykh] has a really interesting video series which can give a beginner or a pro a
great insight into how neural networks operate
and at the same time how evolution works. You may remember his work creating a Bach audio producing
neural network
, and this series again shows his talent at explaining the complex topic s... | 32 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3505309",
"author": "Erik Christiansen",
"timestamp": "2017-04-05T08:45:54",
"content": "Given “surviving creatures reproduce asexually”, I wonder what would be the mechanism through which “evolution slows down as the gene pool begins to get very similar”? Isn’t gene mixing required... | 1,760,374,880.751514 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/04/project-5474-maps-out-logic-ics/ | Project 54/74 Maps Out Logic ICs | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"chip decapping",
"decap",
"decapping",
"decapsulation",
"ics",
"integrated circuit",
"integrated circuits",
"reverse engineering"
] | Integrated circuits are a fundamental part of almost all modern electronics, yet they closely resemble the proverbial “black box” – we may understand the inputs and outputs, but how many of us truly understand what goes on inside? Over the years, the process of decapping ICs has become popular – the removal of the pack... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "3504428",
"author": "Eric Chapin",
"timestamp": "2017-04-05T05:18:16",
"content": "Don’t forget the 4000 series CMOS. Same concept, different pinout, different voltage range.I don’t have EE degree but I have a couple hundred different 74xx chips around and have been using them for ... | 1,760,374,880.685338 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/04/edm-for-the-cheap-and-adventurous/ | EDM For The Cheap And Adventurous | Dan Maloney | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"EDM",
"electric discharge machining",
"etching",
"machining",
"metal working",
"notching"
] | Laser cutters, waterjets, plasma cutters, CNC routers – most hackerspaces and even many dedicated home-gamers seem to have some kind of fancy tool for cutting sheet goods into intricate shapes. But with no access to a CNC machine and a need to cut a complex shape from sheet metal, [AlchemistDagger] cooked up
this bare-... | 24 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3504111",
"author": "t-bone",
"timestamp": "2017-04-05T02:20:00",
"content": "I was reading the manual for our Charmilles the other week. Apparently, EDM has been around commercially since the early 50’s. (!)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"... | 1,760,374,880.889667 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/04/how-to-trick-your-electrical-meter-by-saving-power/ | How To Trick Your Electrical Meter By Saving Power | Michael Uttmark | [
"News",
"Slider"
] | [] | A group of Dutch scientists have been testing out some of today’s “smart” electrical meters to check their accuracy, among other things. Not ones to disappoint, the scientists have found consistently
false readings that in some cases are 582% higher than actual energy consumption.
With experiments lasting for six month... | 95 | 25 | [
{
"comment_id": "3503988",
"author": "rallen",
"timestamp": "2017-04-04T23:10:46",
"content": "Sure, the device that sets your bill is correct! Trust me!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3503997",
"author": "Internet",
"timestam... | 1,760,374,881.199863 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/when-the-grid-goes-dark/ | When The Grid Goes Dark | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Featured",
"Interest",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"blackout",
"breaker",
"california",
"crisis",
"electricity",
"enron",
"failure",
"grid",
"infrastructure",
"outages",
"power",
"recloser"
] | If you lived through the Y2K fiasco, you might remember a lot of hype with almost zero real-world ramifications in the end. As the calendar year flipped from 1999 to 2000 many forecast disastrous software bugs in machines controlling our banking and infrastructure. While this potential disaster didn’t quite live up to ... | 92 | 22 | [
{
"comment_id": "3500174",
"author": "Nitpicker Smartyass",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T14:13:48",
"content": "Well … it was a rough time getting hundreds or thousands of scripts and hardcoded stuff up to 4-digit-year abilities for sure. And there have been failures afterwards, luckily none were life-t... | 1,760,374,881.069694 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/revealing-capcoms-custom-silicon-security/ | Revealing Capcom’s Custom Silicon Security | Mike Szczys | [
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"arcade",
"Capcom",
"coin-op",
"desuicide",
"mame",
"reverse engineering",
"suicide"
] | Ask any security professional and they’ll tell you, when an attacker has hardware access it’s game over. You would think this easily applies to arcade games too — the very nature of placing the hardware in the wild means you’ve let all your secrets out. Capcom is the exception to this scenario. They developed their arc... | 52 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "3499916",
"author": "oodain",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T11:11:21",
"content": "there is something oddly charming about the suicide system, despite being inherently greedy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3499942",
"auth... | 1,760,374,881.281629 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/03/recover-your-selfies-by-your-selfie/ | Recover Your Broken SD Card Selfies By Your Selfie | Jack Laidlaw | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"dead bug soldering",
"flash memory",
"Micro Sd Card",
"NAND flash",
"Nand Revovery",
"sd card",
"SD Recovery"
] | You may still have some luck getting those selfies off of your SD card, even if it will no longer mount on your computer. [HDD Recovery Services] shows us a process to
directly access the NAND memory of a faulty micro SD card
to recover those precious files you thought about backing up but never got around to.
On a Mic... | 33 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "3499526",
"author": "sjaak",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T08:26:06",
"content": "Nice soldering!Is there a common pinout for the flash used or is there information about this? I love to try it myself with a burner sd card",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
... | 1,760,374,881.505723 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/02/command-alexa-with-a-completely-mechanical-vintage-remote-control/ | Command Alexa With A Completely Mechanical Vintage Remote Control | Cameron Coward | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"control",
"remote",
"retro",
"television",
"tv",
"ultrasonic",
"vintage"
] | Anyone with grandparents already knows that in ye olden days, televisions did not have remote control. Your parents probably still complain about how, as children, they were forced to physically walk over to the TV in order to switch between the three available channels. In these modern times of technological wonder, w... | 10 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "3499339",
"author": "???? ????",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T05:31:17",
"content": "Oh, very nice hack, but can you get all 7 combinations decoded? And yeah you can still get 4 button ones, even if they are a bit crusty so that would be 15 different outputs if you treat it like a chord... | 1,760,374,881.324395 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/02/vcf-the-guys-keeping-up-with-commodore/ | VCF: The Guys Keeping Up With Commodore | Brian Benchoff | [
"classic hacks",
"cons"
] | [
"commodore",
"Commodore 65",
"VCF",
"VCF East",
"West Chester"
] | This year at the Vintage Computer Festival, war was beginning. The organizers of the con pulled a coup this year, and instead of giving individual exhibitors a space dedicated to their wares, various factions in the war of the 8-bitters were encouraged to pool their resources and create the best exhibit for their parti... | 33 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "3499287",
"author": "Ross Potts",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T02:23:26",
"content": "God, I miss my 128D",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "3499323",
"author": "rasz_pl",
"timestamp": "2017-04-03T04:49:32",
"... | 1,760,374,881.586754 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/02/hackaday-links-april-2-2017/ | Hackaday Links: April 2, 2017 | Brian Benchoff | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links"
] | [
"facebook",
"Kniterate",
"Knitic",
"knitting",
"mac",
"macintosh",
"minivmac",
"prusa",
"slic3r",
"swamp cooler",
"toorcamp"
] | Toorcamp registration is open
. It’s June 20-24th on Orcas Island, Washington.
Hey, you. The guy still using Mentor Graphics. Yeah, you.
Siemens has acquired Mentor Graphics
.
CNC knitting machines are incredibly complicated but exceptionally cool. Until now, most CNC knitting machines are actually conversions of comme... | 25 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "3499193",
"author": "haydn jones",
"timestamp": "2017-04-02T23:22:21",
"content": "Prusa slic3r is compatible will all printers, not prusa exclusive, and your old slicer profiles load automatically.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_i... | 1,760,374,881.65576 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/02/the-35-year-music-synthesizer-that-spawned-chiptune/ | The 35 Year Music Synthesizer That Spawned Chiptune | Al Williams | [
"classic hacks"
] | [
"commodore 64",
"mos6581",
"music synthesis",
"synthesizer"
] | If you are a certain age, MOS6581 either means nothing to you, or it is a track from Carbon Based Lifeforms. However, if you were a Commodore computer fan 35 years ago, it was a MOS Technologies SID (Sound Interface Device). Think of it as a sound “card” for the computers of the day. Some would say that the chip — the ... | 37 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "3499100",
"author": "Akir Ikasu",
"timestamp": "2017-04-02T20:41:25",
"content": "Ah, the SID chip. The reason why Commodore 64s are the world’s best selling computer and yet are still difficult to find today.I seriously don’t understand why people take perfectly fixable C64s and th... | 1,760,374,881.731682 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2017/04/02/easy-peasy-heart-monitor/ | Easy-Peasy Heart Monitor | Elliot Williams | [
"Medical Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"heart rate",
"heart rate monitor",
"new",
"spi"
] | If you’re at all into medical hacks, you’ve doubtless noticed that the medical industry provides us with all manner of shiny toys to play with. Case in point is a heart-monitoring IC that’s so brand new, it’s not even available in all of the usual distributors yet. [Ashwin], who runs a small prototyping-supplies compan... | 33 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "3498574",
"author": "Brendan Sleight",
"timestamp": "2017-04-02T17:31:14",
"content": "OMG – Not opto-isolated. Quite unsafe if used carelessly.Nice to have it all in one chip and a breakout board, but this is reckless, especially presenting it as a kit. If you going to lower the sk... | 1,760,374,881.800201 |
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