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https://hackaday.com/2024/08/06/creating-1%c2%b5m-features-the-hacker-way/ | Creating 1 Um Features The Hacker Way | Julian Scheffers | [
"chemistry hacks"
] | [
"chip manufacturing",
"photolithography",
"semiconductor fab"
] | [Breaking Taps] has done some lithography experiments in the past, including some test patterns and a rudimentary camera sensor. But now, it’s time to turn it up a notch with
1µm garage semiconductor ambitions
.
The
e-beam lithography
he’s done in the past can achieve some impressive resolutions, but they aren’t very f... | 9 | 7 | [
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"comment_id": "6783205",
"author": "smellsofbikes",
"timestamp": "2024-08-06T15:24:49",
"content": "The engineering and design effort he puts in to solve his problems, and the thought that goes into debugging the new problems that arise, always impress me about his work.",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,371,833.979786 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/06/a-look-inside-the-space-shuttles-first-printer/ | A Look Inside The Space Shuttle’s First Printer | Dan Maloney | [
"Retrocomputing",
"Space"
] | [
"AN/UG-74C",
"FSK",
"impact",
"printer",
"reverse engineering",
"Space Shuttle",
"teleprinter"
] | There was even a day not too long ago when printers appeared to be going the way of the dodo; remember the “paperless office” craze? But then, printer manufacturers invented printers so cheap they could give them away while charging $12,000 a gallon for the ink, and the paperless office suddenly suffered an extinction-... | 23 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6783137",
"author": "Mr Name Required",
"timestamp": "2024-08-06T08:14:02",
"content": "Fascinating article, Ken never ever disappoints!As for airborne data printers, I think the germans did it first in WW2 with the luftwaffe using the FuG 120 ‘Bernhardine’ miniature version of the... | 1,760,371,833.427151 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/05/the-555-as-a-mosfet-driver/ | The 555 As A MOSFET Driver | Jenny List | [
"Parts"
] | [
"555",
"mosfet",
"mosfet driver"
] | To drive a MOSFET requires more than merely a logic level output, there’s a requirement to charge the device’s gate which necessitates a suitable buffer amplifier. A variety of different approaches can be taken, from a bunch of logic buffers in parallel to a specialised MOSFET driver, but [Mr. T’s Design Graveyard] is ... | 27 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6783098",
"author": "spiritplumber",
"timestamp": "2024-08-06T02:07:22",
"content": "will this work for high-side drivers as well? it should…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "7043540",
"author": "Cosmin",
"times... | 1,760,371,833.929368 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/05/cisco-ball-is-the-tumbleweed-opposite-of-a-disco-ball/ | Cisco Ball Is The Tumbleweed Opposite Of A Disco Ball | Navarre Bartz | [
"Art"
] | [
"calm",
"disco ball",
"kinetic art",
"Laura Kampf",
"silence",
"tumbleweed"
] | Inspiration can strike a maker at any moment. For [Laura Kampf], it happened in the desert when
she saw a tumbleweed
.
Tumbleweeds roll through the western United States, hitting cars on the interstate and providing some background motion for westerns. [Kampf] found the plant’s intricate, prickly structure mesmerizing,... | 8 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6783076",
"author": "fiddlingjunky",
"timestamp": "2024-08-05T23:24:36",
"content": "“through the western United States”This is likely a Salsola tumbleweed, which was introduced from the Eurasia. It’s interesting that it’s become so iconic over here, I’ve had to clear paths on highw... | 1,760,371,833.365761 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/04/the-ultimate-seed-vault-backup-how-about-the-moon/ | The Ultimate Seed Vault Backup? How About The Moon | Donald Papp | [
"green hacks",
"News"
] | [] | A safe haven to preserve samples of biodiversity from climate change, habitat loss, natural disaster, and other threats is recognized as a worthwhile endeavor. Everyone knows good backup practice involves a copy of critical elements at a remote location, leading some to ask:
why not the moon
?
Not even the
Svalbard glo... | 44 | 14 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782840",
"author": "Mr.Seed",
"timestamp": "2024-08-05T05:30:52",
"content": "That seed vault is used many times a year to retrieve seeds. Moon is extreamly stupid idea because retrieving the seeds would not be practical.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
... | 1,760,371,833.862389 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/04/apollo-computer-the-forgotten-workstations/ | Apollo Computer: The Forgotten Workstations | Donald Papp | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"80's",
"apollo computer",
"vintage"
] | Ever heard of Apollo Computer, Inc.? They were one of the first graphical workstation vendors in the 1980s, and at the time were competitors to Sun Microsystems.
But that’s enough dry historical context. Feast your eyes on this
full-color, 26-page product brochure straight from 1988
for the Series 10000 “Personal Super... | 27 | 19 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782835",
"author": "Andrew",
"timestamp": "2024-08-05T04:13:10",
"content": "I remember these. I did some rudimentary chip design on one for a course I did. Nice hardware.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6782837",
"au... | 1,760,371,833.77481 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/04/hackaday-links-august-4-2024/ | Hackaday Links: August 4, 2024 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"CME",
"fcc",
"fiber optic",
"flare",
"flight tracking",
"gmrs",
"hackaday links",
"nasa",
"NASA TV",
"sabotage",
"satellite",
"solar",
"space junk",
"sun",
"sunspot"
] | Good news, bad news for Sun watchers this week, as
our star launched a solar flare even bigger than the one back in May
that gave us an amazing display of aurora that dipped down into pretty low latitudes. This was a big one; where the earlier outburst was only an X8.9 class, the one on July 23 was X14. That sure sound... | 8 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782818",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2024-08-05T01:20:14",
"content": "I’ve missed several aurora possibilities recently due to cloud cover.B^(",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6782849",
... | 1,760,371,833.535937 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/04/your-esp32-as-a-usb-bluetooth-dongle/ | Your ESP32 As A USB Bluetooth Dongle | Jenny List | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"bluetooth",
"ESP32",
"hci"
] | Using Bluetooth on a desktop computer is now such a seamless process; it’s something built-in and just
works
. Behind that ubiquity is a protocol layer called HCI, or Host Controller Interface, a set of commands allowing a host computer to talk to a Bluetooth interface. That interface doesn’t have to be special, and [... | 9 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782701",
"author": "GabyPCgeeK",
"timestamp": "2024-08-04T19:11:27",
"content": "It says USB but it’s UART to USB and newer ESP32s only have BLE capabilities so I think it’s for the original ESP32.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id"... | 1,760,371,833.317299 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/04/all-the-air-ducting-parts-you-could-ever-need/ | All The Air Ducting Parts You Could Ever Need | Jenny List | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"air ducting",
"fume extraction",
"ventilation"
] | If you have ever planned an air duct or dust extraction system for your shop, you’ll know just how difficult it can be to accommodate all but the simplest of arrangements. Off the shelf systems are intended for use in home heating or other domestic systems, and offer little flexibility of choice. Of course you could 3D... | 49 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782607",
"author": "Termm",
"timestamp": "2024-08-04T14:11:09",
"content": "We are close to the day where 3D printers will be fast, reliable and autonomous enough (think filament loading, part unloading) to be used and replace going to buy cheap hardware at the store.If a company p... | 1,760,371,833.705007 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/04/pc-9800-boot-sounds-for-modern-computers/ | PC-9800 Boot Sounds For Modern Computers! | Alexander Rowsell | [
"computer hacks",
"laptops hacks",
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"boot jingle",
"M.2",
"PC-9800"
] | There have been many computers that played a little jingle to greet you upon booting. The NEC PC-9800 is a famous example, though almost all the Macintosh computers played either the soothing “booting” chord or sometimes the Sad Mac “error” chord. And of course, consoles have long played music on startup, with the orig... | 24 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782558",
"author": "PinheadBE",
"timestamp": "2024-08-04T11:22:00",
"content": "Isn’t this the perfect example of “A 556 could have done this” ?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6782568",
"author": "pelrun",
"t... | 1,760,371,833.485353 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/04/detecting-faster-than-light-travel-by-extraterrestrials/ | Detecting Faster Than Light Travel By Extraterrestrials | Maya Posch | [
"Space"
] | [
"faster than light",
"gravitational waves",
"warp drive"
] | The idea of traveling faster than the speed of light (FTL) has been a popular idea long before [Alcubierre] came up with the first plausible theoretical underpinnings for such a technology. Yet even if such an FTL drive is possible, it may be hundreds of years before humanity manages to develop its first prototype. Thi... | 73 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782583",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2024-08-04T12:34:07",
"content": "Well, now I wonder if there’s some interstellar signpost somewhere:“Entering a no-wake zone. Sub-light beyond this point.”",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_... | 1,760,371,834.095653 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/03/bringing-the-umpcs-back-with-a-pi-zero/ | Bringing The UMPCs Back With A Pi Zero | Arya Voronova | [
"handhelds hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"diy handheld",
"handheld",
"pda",
"physical keyboard",
"pi zero",
"qwerty",
"raspberry pi",
"RPi",
"umpc"
] | Miss PDAs and UMPCs? You wouldn’t be the only one, and it’s a joy to see someone take the future into their own hands. [Icepat]’s dream is reviving UMPCs as a concept, and he’s bringing forth a pretty convincing hardware-backed argument in form of
the Pocket Z project.
For the hardware design, he’s hired two engineers,... | 12 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782521",
"author": "alanrcam",
"timestamp": "2024-08-04T08:12:55",
"content": "When someone mentions “pocket size” I wonder: which pocket? Cargo pants, for example, can carry some hefty items.For designs, I’m reminded of the 701 “Butterfly” keyboard: when you opened it, the pieces ... | 1,760,371,834.141987 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/03/pixel-art-and-the-myth-of-the-crt-effect/ | Pixel Art And The Myth Of The CRT Effect | Maya Posch | [
"Art",
"Games",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"crt",
"pixel art"
] | The ‘CRT Effect’ myth says that the reason why pixel art of old games looked so much better is due to the smoothing and blending effects of cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays, which were everywhere until the early 2000s. In fits of mistaken nostalgia this has led both to modern-day extreme cubism pixel art and video game ... | 61 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782493",
"author": "LordNothing",
"timestamp": "2024-08-04T03:57:33",
"content": "i retired my last crt some 10-15 years ago. i was only using it for stereo vision because lcds werent up to 120hz yet. at least none that i could afford. i eventually retired it when the stereo enable... | 1,760,371,834.295236 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/03/need-a-usb-sniffer-use-your-pico/ | Need A USB Sniffer? Use Your Pico! | Arya Voronova | [
"Raspberry Pi",
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"Raspberry Pi Pico",
"rp2040",
"sniffer",
"usb sniffer"
] | Ever wanted to sniff USB device communications? The usual path was buying an expensive metal box with USB connectors, using logic analyzers, or wiring devboards together and hacking some software to make them forward USB data.
Now,
thanks to [ataradov]’s work,
you can simply use a Pi Pico – you only need to tap the D+ ... | 24 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782473",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timestamp": "2024-08-03T23:58:01",
"content": "Small correction: Low-speed USB is 1.5Mbps, not 1.2Mbps.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#USB_1.xSeveral years ago I also did a short experiment with Sigrok / Pulseview and the USD 5 Saleaeae clone and ca... | 1,760,371,834.36538 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/03/steam-deck-or-single-board-computer/ | Steam Deck, Or Single Board Computer? | Arya Voronova | [
"computer hacks",
"handhelds hacks"
] | [
"mainboard",
"motherboard",
"steam deck",
"steamdeck"
] | With a number of repair-friendly companies entering the scene, we have gained motivation to dig deeper into devices they build, repurpose them in ways yet unseen, and uncover their secrets. One such secret was recently
discovered by [Ayeitsyaboii] on Reddit
– turns out, you can use the Steam Deck mainboard as a standal... | 9 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782438",
"author": "fuzzyfuzzyfungus",
"timestamp": "2024-08-03T20:17:24",
"content": "Not a huge surprise that it works; but nice that Valve didn’t make the BIOS really touchy. You can typically just pull a laptop board and have it work; but the exceptions that have a battery aler... | 1,760,371,834.189163 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/03/homebrew-relay-computer-features-motorized-clock/ | Homebrew Relay Computer Features Motorized Clock | Tom Nardi | [
"classic hacks",
"computer hacks"
] | [
"clock generator",
"clock source",
"relay computer",
"woodworking"
] | Before today, we probably would have said that scratch-built relay computers were the sole domain of only the most wizardly of graybeards. But this
impressive build sent in by [Will Dana]
shows that not only are there young hardware hackers out there that are still bold enough to leave the transistor behind, but that t... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782409",
"author": "WillsBuilds",
"timestamp": "2024-08-03T17:23:56",
"content": "Thanks so much for featuring this! It took a ton of effort but it was worth it :)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6782463",
"author": "... | 1,760,371,834.75571 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/03/how-about-privacy-and-hackability/ | How About PrivacyandHackability? | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Slider"
] | [
"hackability",
"newsletter",
"privacy"
] | Many smart electric meters in the US use the 900 MHz band to broadcast their usage out to meter readers as they walk the neighborhood. [Jeff Sandberg] used an RTL-SDR dongle and some software to
integrate this data into his own home automation system
, which lets him keep track of his home’s power usage.
Half of the co... | 32 | 17 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782375",
"author": "clancydaenlightened",
"timestamp": "2024-08-03T14:11:17",
"content": "Simple fixUse NFC so you have to have a reader in close range, and NFC/RFID works just as goof to tell how many kilowatts in a month you they charging youAnd you can just add some overly stron... | 1,760,371,834.614381 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/03/get-your-glitch-on-with-a-picoemp-and-a-3d-printer/ | Get Your Glitch On With A PicoEMP And A 3D Printer | Dan Maloney | [
"Reverse Engineering"
] | [
"ChipWhisperer",
"EMFI",
"fault injection",
"glitch",
"PicoEMP",
"reverse engineering"
] | We’re not sure what [Aaron Christophel] calls
his automated chip glitching setup built from a 3D printer
, but we’re going to go ahead and dub it the “Glitch-o-Matic 9000.” Has a nice ring to it.
Of course, this isn’t a commercial product, or even a rig that’s necessarily intended for repeated use. It’s more of a tacti... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782346",
"author": "Cricri",
"timestamp": "2024-08-03T11:56:49",
"content": "I had no idea you could laser glitch without having to decap the chip’s epoxy.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6782354",
"author": "Halogene... | 1,760,371,834.543529 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/03/linux-handheld-packs-dual-batteries-so-its-never-out-of-juice/ | Linux Handheld Packs Dual Batteries So It’s Never Out Of Juice | Al Williams | [
"Linux Hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"blackberry",
"cyberdeck",
"handheld terminal"
] | There was a time — not so long ago — when a handheld terminal would have been an expensive and exotic piece of kit. Now, all it takes is a Raspberry Pi and an off-the-shelf TFT display, as
[ZitaoTech] shows us
.
The resemblance to a Blackberry isn’t a coincidence
Admittedly, we are now seeing these all over the place, ... | 23 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782299",
"author": "Misterlaneous",
"timestamp": "2024-08-03T08:43:43",
"content": "11 being louder than 10 not withstanding, why not just have a larger battery?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6782311",
"author": "Ho... | 1,760,371,834.822787 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/better-battery-design-through-science/ | Better Battery Design Through Science | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Battery Hacks"
] | [
"battery",
"design",
"dimensions",
"lithium",
"modeling",
"performance",
"python",
"simulation",
"troubleshooting"
] | Before the age of lithium batteries, any project needing to carry its own power had to rely on batteries that were much less energy-dense and affordable. In many ways, we take modern lithium technology for granted, and can easily put massive batteries in our projects by the standards of just a few decades ago. While th... | 6 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782283",
"author": "El Gru",
"timestamp": "2024-08-03T05:52:59",
"content": "It’s the old “Pick 2 out of 3” game.Spoiler alert: it’s everywhere.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6782423",
"author": "PPJ",
"time... | 1,760,371,834.496495 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/taco-bell-to-bring-voice-ai-ordering-to-hundreds-of-us-drive-throughs/ | Taco Bell To Bring Voice AI Ordering To Hundreds Of US Drive-Throughs | Maya Posch | [
"Artificial Intelligence",
"News"
] | [
"voice assistant",
"voice recognition"
] | Drive-throughs are a popular feature at fast-food places, where you can get some fast grub without even leaving your car. For the fast-food companies running them they are also a big focus of automation, with the ideal being a voice assistant that can take orders and pass them on to the (still human) staff. This probab... | 41 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782249",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2024-08-03T02:32:05",
"content": "Taco Bell?The Mexican phone company?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6782252",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2024... | 1,760,371,834.964186 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/sliding-shelves-supersize-storage/ | Sliding Shelves Supersize Storage | Navarre Bartz | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"furniture",
"furniture slider",
"garage",
"Interactive Furniture",
"organizing",
"shelving",
"storage",
"transforming furniture",
"workshop"
] | Organizing things in your home or workshop is a constant battle for some of us. Until we have access to a Tardis or bag of holding, maybe the next best thing is a
sliding shelf system
.
[HAXMAN] found a great set of sliding shelves online, but after recovering from sticker shock decided he could build something similar... | 23 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782219",
"author": "Dave",
"timestamp": "2024-08-02T23:17:38",
"content": "That looks great!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6782224",
"author": "paulvdh",
"timestamp": "2024-08-02T23:46:11",
"content": "I stopped t... | 1,760,371,834.881738 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/custom-hat-gives-vintage-mitutoyo-calipers-a-new-lease-on-life/ | Custom Hat Gives Vintage Mitutoyo Calipers A New Lease On Life | Dan Maloney | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"attiny85",
"caliper",
"digital",
"hat",
"metrology",
"Mitutoyo",
"oled",
"Vernier"
] | Metrology fans are usually at least a little bit in love with Mitutoyo, and rightfully so. The Japanese company has been making precision measuring instruments for the better part of 100 years, and users appreciate their precision almost as much as the silky smooth feel of their tools. If you can afford it, a Mitutoyo ... | 16 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782179",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2024-08-02T20:16:20",
"content": "I’n not sure if this hack will fix my broken Mitutoyo, as its pcb appears to be corroded, I only get a brief flash on the LCD when power is applied. But I’ll follow the link(s... | 1,760,371,835.106931 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/over-molding-wires-with-hot-glue-and-3d-printed-molds/ | Over-molding Wires With Hot Glue And 3D Printed Molds | Dan Maloney | [
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"EVA",
"hot glue",
"injection",
"molding",
"overmold",
"release agent",
"splice",
"strain relief",
"wire"
] | We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: water always finds a way in. That’s particularly problematic for things like wire splices in damp environments, something that no amount of electrical tape is going to help. Heat shrink tubing might be your friend here, but for an electrically isolated and mechanically suppo... | 50 | 24 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782159",
"author": "Harvie.CZ",
"timestamp": "2024-08-02T18:40:59",
"content": "Why don’t you just 3d print mold to make the mold and cast silicone in it? that way you’ll never have to worry about hotglue sticking to it, since it does not stick to silicone…",
"parent_id": null,... | 1,760,371,835.052158 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/hackaday-podcast-episode-282-saildrones-a-new-classic-laptop-and-snes-cartridges-are-more-than-you-think/ | Hackaday Podcast Episode 282: Saildrones, A New Classic Laptop, And SNES Cartridges Are More Than You Think | Tom Nardi | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts",
"Slider"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | In this episode, the CrowdStrike fiasco has Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi pondering the fragility of our modern infrastructure. From there the discussion moves on to robotic sailboats, the evolving state of bespoke computers, and the unique capabilities of the Super Nintendo cartridge. You’ll also hear... | 1 | 1 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782368",
"author": "nottinghamcitytraveller",
"timestamp": "2024-08-03T13:28:15",
"content": "I’m impressed that Tom recognised David Tennant’s voice if he hadn’t seen Doctor Who. In that he speaks with an RP accent, and in pretty much everything else he uses his own west of Scotla... | 1,760,371,835.14844 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/solar-fountain-aerates-garden-pond/ | Solar Fountain Aerates Garden Pond | Navarre Bartz | [
"Arduino Hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"aeration",
"fish pond",
"garden",
"pond"
] | Sometimes off-the-shelf solutions to a problem don’t meet your expectations. That’s what led [TomGoff] to build his own
solar pond fountain
.
This build features a lot of creative reuse of materials [TomGoff] already had on hand, like the end of a cable reel for the platform and a wheelbarrow inner tube for flotation. ... | 8 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782141",
"author": "Jan",
"timestamp": "2024-08-02T17:33:05",
"content": "For real?What kind of pump is that only sprinkling with a 20W solarpanel?And 30s on/3min off?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6782144",
"author... | 1,760,371,835.196268 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/this-week-in-security-echospoofing-ransomware-records-and-github-attestations/ | This Week In Security: Echospoofing, Ransomware Records, And Github Attestations | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"News",
"Security Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"Attestation",
"ransomware",
"spam",
"This Week in Security"
] | It’s a bit of bitter irony, when a security product gets used maliciously, to pull off the exact attack it was designed to prevent. Enter
Proofpoint, and the EchoSpoofing attack
. Proofpoint offers an email security product, filtering spam and malicious incoming emails, and also handling SPF, DKIM, and DMARC headers on... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782114",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known as Ren",
"timestamp": "2024-08-02T15:58:03",
"content": "The Internet isn’t broken, but it ran into a ditch and rolled over a couple of times!(sigh!)",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_... | 1,760,371,835.244163 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/getting-a-laser-eye-injury-and-how-to-avoid-it/ | Getting A Laser Eye Injury And How To Avoid It | Maya Posch | [
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"laser safety"
] | Most people love lasers, because they can make cats chase, read music from a shiny disc, etch and cut materials, and be very shiny in Hollywood blockbusters, even when their presence makes zero sense. That said, lasers are also extremely dangerous, as their highly focused nature and wide range of power levels can leave... | 28 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782011",
"author": "WonkoTheSaneUK",
"timestamp": "2024-08-02T11:32:57",
"content": "TL;DR – DO NOT LOOK INTO LASER BEAM WITH REMAINING EYE!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6782035",
"author": "Dan",
"timestam... | 1,760,371,835.311989 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/02/rube-goldberg-floppy-disk-cleaner/ | Rube Goldberg Floppy Disk Cleaner | Navarre Bartz | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"3.5\" floppy disk",
"amiga floppy",
"archival",
"linear rail",
"retrocomputing"
] | Floppies were once the standard method of information exchange, but decades of storage can render them unreadable, especially if mold sets in. [Rob Smith] wanted to clean some floppies in style and made a
Disco Rube Goldberg-Style device
for the job.
Starting with a disk caddy on linear rails, [Smith] has a track for t... | 5 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782040",
"author": "Gravis",
"timestamp": "2024-08-02T12:42:22",
"content": "The name seems off because this is a practical device that directly performs a task. The crux of a Rube Goldberg device isn’t it’s complexity. Wikipedia describes these devices as “a chain reaction–type ma... | 1,760,371,835.405145 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/01/altermagnetism-in-manganese-telluride-and-others-the-future-of-spintronics/ | Altermagnetism In Manganese Telluride And Others: The Future Of Spintronics? | Maya Posch | [
"Science"
] | [
"altermagnetism",
"magnetism"
] | Magnetic materials are typically divided into ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic types, depending on their magnetic moments (electron spins), resulting in either macroscopic (net) magnetism or not. Altermagnetism is however a recently
experimentally confirmed
third type that as the name suggests alternates effectively... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6782006",
"author": "Macten",
"timestamp": "2024-08-02T11:15:39",
"content": "Thanks Maya, I enjoy your content a lot!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6782961",
"author": "Fredz",
"timestamp": "2024-08-05T15:17... | 1,760,371,835.358361 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/01/what-are-photons-anyway/ | What Are Photons, Anyway? | Navarre Bartz | [
"Science"
] | [
"particle",
"photon",
"photonics",
"physics",
"quantum physics",
"wave",
"wave particle duality",
"wavicles"
] | Photons are particles of light, or waves, or something like that, right? [
Mithuna Yoganathan
]
explains this conundrum in more detail
than you probably got in your high school physics class.
While quantum physics has been around for over a century, it can still be a bit tricky to wrap one’s head around since some of t... | 33 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781918",
"author": "Chris Maple",
"timestamp": "2024-08-02T05:06:19",
"content": "How is a visible light photon inside inside a sealed iron box going to be infinite in extent?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6781941",
... | 1,760,371,835.679633 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/01/getting-an-old-hvac-system-online/ | Getting An Old HVAC System Online | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Arduino Hacks"
] | [
"air conditioning",
"arduino",
"automation",
"hvac",
"nano matter",
"remote control"
] | Standardization might sound boring, but it’s really a great underlying strength of modern society. Everyone agreeing on a way that a certain task should be done saves a lot of time, energy, and money. But it does take a certain amount of consensus-building, and at the time [JC]’s HVAC system was built the manufacturers... | 14 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781868",
"author": "Egghead. Larsen",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T23:34:24",
"content": "Mitsubishi! The Tri-Diamond! We had some rebranded 286s sold by Burroghs/UniSys but the name and emblem were all over the inside – same as the Leading Edge Model D2. Sturdy and reliable! Which was... | 1,760,371,835.783447 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/31/a-new-era-for-us-passenger-rail/ | A New Era For US Passenger Rail? | Navarre Bartz | [
"News",
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"Amtrak",
"Federal Railroad Administration",
"FRA",
"passenger rail",
"rail travel",
"railroad",
"train",
"trains"
] | Here in the United States, we’re lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to shiny new passenger rail, despite being leaders in previous centuries. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has
just released a story map
of how the US could close the gap (a little).
The Corridor Identification and Development ... | 115 | 26 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781393",
"author": "PWalsh",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T02:25:31",
"content": "Shipping by water is cheaper than by rail, rail is cheaper than truck.The US has a fair amount of inland waterways that *could* be used for cheap shipping.The Jones Act in the US prevents most cargo transp... | 1,760,371,836.030752 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/31/diy-off-grid-battery-pack-from-ev-battery/ | DIY Off Grid Battery Pack From EV Battery | Navarre Bartz | [
"Battery Hacks"
] | [
"battery pack",
"inverter",
"off grid"
] | Car camping gets you out in the great outdoors, but sometimes it’s nice to bring a few comforts from home. [Ed’s Garage] has taken a module from a salvaged EV and turned it into a
handy portable power station
.
With 2.3 kWh of storage from the
single Spark EV module
, the battery pack can power [Ed]’s hotplate, lights,... | 15 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781417",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T03:39:19",
"content": "This is honestly really cool. It’s lithium-ion, so I might want to weatherproof it and keep it somewhere outside.. or at least in the garage.-T somebody who has had a battery fire",
"parent_id": null,
... | 1,760,371,835.733469 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/31/lightburn-turns-back-the-clock-bails-on-linux-users/ | LightBurn Turns Back The Clock, Bails On Linux Users | Tom Nardi | [
"Featured",
"Linux Hacks",
"News",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"compatibility",
"laser cutter",
"LightBurn",
"linux"
] | Angry Birds
, flash mobs, Russell Brand, fidget spinners. All of these were virtually unavoidable in the previous decade, and yet, like so many popular trends, have now largely faded into obscurity. But in a recent announcement, the developers of LightBurn have brought back a relic of the past that we thought was all b... | 219 | 50 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781318",
"author": "anonymous",
"timestamp": "2024-07-31T20:06:31",
"content": "I just want to know: why is the move sunsetting linux support rather than doing a flatpak?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6781326",
"aut... | 1,760,371,836.437099 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/31/floss-weekly-episode-794-release-them-all-with-jreleaser/ | FLOSS Weekly Episode 794: Release Them All With JReleaser | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts",
"Software Development"
] | [
"FLOSS Weekly",
"JReleaser"
] | This week
Jonathan Bennett
and
Katherine Druckman
chat with
Andres Almiray
about JReleaser, the Java release automation tool that’s for more than just Java, and more than just releases. What was the original inspiration for the tool? And how does JReleaser help avoid a string of commits trying to fix GitHub Actions? Li... | 0 | 0 | [] | 1,760,371,836.117502 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/31/reverse-engineering-a-soundsystems-api/ | Reverse Engineering A Soundsystem’s API | Bryan Cockfield | [
"home entertainment hacks",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"api",
"HTTP",
"internet of things",
"soundsystem",
"speakers",
"web api",
"web interface",
"web server"
] | We’ve all been stymied by a smart thermostat, coffee maker, or other device which would work fine on its own but ultimately seems to be worse off for having an Internet connection — so when something actually pulls off this feat it’s quite noteworthy. [James] has a powerful set of connected speakers and while they don... | 12 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781234",
"author": "Zoe Nagy",
"timestamp": "2024-07-31T15:33:08",
"content": "Since when coding is easier than a voltage divider?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6781240",
"author": "LookAtDaShinyShiny",
"tim... | 1,760,371,836.077735 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/31/polaroid-in-an-instant/ | Polaroid In An Instant | Al Williams | [
"Featured",
"History",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"edwin land",
"polarizing film",
"polaroid"
] | Edwin Land, were he alive, would hate this post. He wanted to be known for this scientific work and not for his personal life. In fact, upon his death, he ordered the destruction of all his personal papers. However, Land was, by our definition, a hacker, and while you probably correctly associate him with the Polaroid ... | 23 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781198",
"author": "Chr E",
"timestamp": "2024-07-31T14:29:45",
"content": "The SX-70 system, both the camera (folding SLR with an incredible optics design, and sophisticated electronic autoexposure system powered by the film cartridge) and the film (an entire automated darkroom in... | 1,760,371,836.507976 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/31/climate-change-may-make-days-longer/ | Climate Change May Make Days Longer | Navarre Bartz | [
"clock hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"climate change",
"Clocks",
"horology",
"tides",
"time"
] | For those who say there’s never enough time in a day, your wish for more time is getting granted, if ever so slightly. Scientists have now found a
new source of our days getting longer
— climate change.
You may have already been aware that the length of the day on Earth has been getting longer over time due to the drag... | 31 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781126",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2024-07-31T11:10:29",
"content": "I cared about climate change and environmentalism before it was mainstream. I eventually stopped caring.I cared about social moral decay before it was mainstream. I eventually stopped caring.I cared abo... | 1,760,371,836.188719 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/01/cardboard-r-c-plane-actually-flies/ | Cardboard R/C Plane Actually Flies | Navarre Bartz | [
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"cardboard",
"flight",
"plane",
"rc plane"
] | Many makers start by building mock-ups from cardboard, but [Alex-08] has managed to build an
R/C plane that actually flies, out of cardboard
.
If you’ve been thinking of building an R/C plane from scratch yourself, this guide is an excellent place to start. [Alex-08] goes through excruciating detail on how he designed ... | 19 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781819",
"author": "Jon Mayo",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T20:19:53",
"content": "My first custom RC plane was made from cardboard and a lot of tape for the seams and hinges. It was a glider though. I didn’t have the kind of money to put a valuable glow engine in something that needed... | 1,760,371,836.56026 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/01/2024-tiny-games-contest-pi-o-scope-pong/ | 2024 Tiny Games Contest: Pi-O-Scope-Pong | Donald Papp | [
"contests",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"2024 Tiny Games Challenge",
"oscilloscope",
"pong",
"raspberry pi",
"xbox controller"
] | [Aaron Lager]’s
Pi-O-Scope-Pong
project takes a minimal approach to
Pong
by drawing on an oscilloscope to generate crisp paddles and ball. A Raspberry Pi takes care of the grunt work of signal generation, and even uses the two joysticks of an Xbox controller (connected to the Pi over Bluetooth) for inputs.
Originally, ... | 3 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781860",
"author": "Mike Bradley",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T23:13:33",
"content": "Interesting, I wonder how it would do with a Bournes 4116R-R2R-503LF R/2R for under $2 versus that $27 DAC?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "67... | 1,760,371,836.719116 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/01/the-atomic-gardener-of-eastbourne/ | The Atomic Gardener Of Eastbourne | Jenny List | [
"cons",
"green hacks"
] | [
"atomic gardening",
"citizen science",
"irradiated seeds"
] | Pity the video team at a large hacker camp, because they have a huge pile of interesting talks in the can but only the limited resources of volunteers to put them online. Thus we often see talks appearing from past camps, and
such it is with one from Electromagnetic Field 2022
. It’s from [Sarah Angliss], and as its su... | 7 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781719",
"author": "Tom",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T16:49:03",
"content": "https://www.atomicgardening.com/triggers my Avast antivirus… Hm….",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6781886",
"author": "Thelinkisglowing",
... | 1,760,371,836.607909 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/01/programming-ada-implementing-the-lock-free-ring-buffer/ | Programming Ada: Implementing The Lock-Free Ring Buffer | Maya Posch | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Software Development"
] | [
"ada",
"software development"
] | In the
previous article
we looked at designing a lock-free ring buffer (LFRB) in Ada, contrasting and comparing it with the C++-based version which it is based on, and highlighting the Ada way of doing things. In this article we’ll cover implementing the LFRB, including the data request task that the LFRB will be using... | 20 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781711",
"author": "William Payne",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T16:25:44",
"content": "Market share: \tAda\t1.08%.https://www.google.com/search?q=percent+of+programmers+using+ada%3F&sca_esv=de3e428f524f6eaa&sca_upv=1&rlz=1C1QCTP_enUS1084US1084&sxsrf=ADLYWIKIO8UT_1lklAWTuqlbzaY0CHg-Iw%... | 1,760,371,836.675701 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/01/programming-tiny-blinkenlight-projects-with-light/ | Programming Tiny Blinkenlight Projects With Light | Dan Maloney | [
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"CH32V003",
"differential",
"led",
"matrix",
"op-amp",
"sensor",
"transimpedance",
"wearable"
] | [mitxela] has a tiny problem, literally: some of his projects are so small as to defy easy programming. While most of us would probably solve the problem of having no physical space on a board to mount a connector with WiFi or Bluetooth, he took a different path and gave
this clever light-based programming interface
a ... | 18 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781560",
"author": "ono",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T11:07:56",
"content": "Nice job [mitxela]. Now implement that to give a sync ability to your blinky Fibonacci earrings, and to reflash / configure them",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comme... | 1,760,371,836.848383 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/08/01/secret-messages-on-plastic-just-add-tesla-coil/ | Secret Messages On Plastic, Just Add Tesla Coil | Donald Papp | [
"High Voltage",
"Science"
] | [
"corona treatment",
"hydroglyphics",
"hydrophilic",
"hydrophobic",
"tesla coil"
] | Here’s
a short research paper
from 2013 that explains how to create “hydroglyphics”, or writing with selecting surface wetting. In it, an apparently normal-looking petri dish is treated so as to reveal a message when wetted with water vapor. The contrast between hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces, which is not visibl... | 15 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781478",
"author": "Zoe Nagy",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T08:22:05",
"content": "Doesn’t beat microdots, or Tor",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6781519",
"author": "elmesito",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T09:20:21",
"cont... | 1,760,371,836.79261 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/31/spin-your-own-passive-cooling-fibres/ | Spin Your Own Passive Cooling Fibres | Jenny List | [
"chemistry hacks",
"green hacks"
] | [
"passive cooling",
"PLA",
"radiative cooling"
] | When the temperature climbs, it’s an eternal problem: how to stay cool. An exciting field of materials science lies in radiative cooling materials, things which reflect so much incoming heat that they can cool down from their own radiation rather than heating up in the sun. It’s something [NightHawkInLight] has been wo... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781495",
"author": "Zoe Nagy",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T08:48:53",
"content": "Try those road mark reflective particles",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6781760",
"author": "psyke",
"timestamp": "2024-08-01T18:... | 1,760,371,837.002131 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/31/a-look-inside-the-super-nintendo-cartridges-and-video-system/ | A Look Inside The Super Nintendo Cartridges And Video System | Maya Posch | [
"Games",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"cartridge",
"snes",
"super nintendo entertainment system"
] | Despite being effectively sold as a toy in the 1990s, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) was pretty bleeding-edge as far its computing chops were concerned. This was especially apparent with its cartridges, such as in this
excellent summary article
by [Fabien Sanglard].
In addition to the mask ROM that stor... | 22 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781093",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2024-07-31T08:33:30",
"content": "I yearn for a future where sillicon fabs are so ubiquitous and common that unity and other game engines have an “export to HDL” option along with the usual “export for windows” or whateverImagine never ... | 1,760,371,837.246016 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/ai-image-generator-twists-in-response-to-midi-dials-in-real-time/ | AI Image Generator Twists In Response To MIDI Dials, In Real-time | Donald Papp | [
"Art",
"Artificial Intelligence"
] | [
"ai",
"art",
"dials",
"midi",
"stable diffusion"
] | MIDI isn’t just about music, as [Johannes Stelzer] shows by
using dials to adjust AI-generated imagery in real-time
. The results are wild, with an interactivity to them that we don’t normally see in such things.
[Johannes] uses
Stable Diffusion
‘s SDXL Turbo to create a baseline image of “photo of a red brick house, b... | 29 | 12 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781074",
"author": "Cad the Mad",
"timestamp": "2024-07-31T05:13:01",
"content": "In before people lose it over AI image generation.Very cool project. Visually fascinating and highly polished with the minimal processing time.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": ... | 1,760,371,837.321398 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/overhauling-subway-cars-is-a-big-job/ | Overhauling Subway Cars Is A Big Job | Navarre Bartz | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"maintenance",
"railyard",
"rebuild",
"subway",
"trains"
] | Subway cars have a tough life. Moving people through a city efficiently underground every day and night takes a toll on the hardware. To keep things running efficiently, NYC
rebuilds its cars every six years.
The enormous job of refurbing a subway car back to factory spec happens in one of two yards, either in Brooklyn... | 6 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781162",
"author": "Davin Peterson",
"timestamp": "2024-07-31T12:58:48",
"content": "Wow, 6 years seems a little soon to rebuilt subway cars.The Washington DC Metro had its subway cars overhauled when they get 20 years old to give them another 20 years. They retire the railcars whe... | 1,760,371,837.107561 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/making-an-aluminum-foil-glider-to-prototype-hydroforming/ | Making An Aluminium Foil Glider To Prototype Hydroforming | Maya Posch | [
"drone hacks"
] | [
"glider",
"hydroforming"
] | Hydroforming is a very effective way to turn a ductile metal like aluminium or stainless steel into a specific shape, either using a die or by creating a closed envelope in which the hydraulic fluid is injected. While trying to think of ways to create a hydroformed airplane without spending big bucks on having it done ... | 13 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781035",
"author": "Bear Naff",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T23:44:03",
"content": "Looking at this guy’s other videos, he’s either burning through a huge backlog of projects, or he’s another Robert Murray-Smith and is going to be an endless font of interesting, if less than practical,... | 1,760,371,837.180021 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/the-last-instrument-to-get-auto-tuned/ | The Last Instrument To Get Auto-Tuned | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"auto tune",
"autotune",
"esp-32-s3",
"ESP32",
"fundamental frequency algorithm",
"kazoo",
"midi",
"synth",
"synthesizer",
"yin"
] | Various decades have their musical signature, like the excessive use of synthesizers and hairspray in the 1980s pop music scene. Likewise, the early 2010s was marked by a fairly extreme use of autotune, a technology that allows sounds, especially vocals, to be shifted to precise pitches regardless of the pitch of the o... | 14 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6781005",
"author": "makefu",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T20:37:21",
"content": "Next please auto-tune for vuvuzela.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6781025",
"author": "Garth",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T22:31:42",... | 1,760,371,839.15945 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/this-home-made-mac-has-a-real-crt/ | This Home Made Mac Has A Real CRT | Jenny List | [
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"crt",
"mac",
"mac Classic"
] | Cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions may no longer be in production, but its last bastion came in the form of extremely cheap little Chinese portable sets with a black-and-white tube. They’re now useless for broadcast TV, so can often be had for next-to-nothing. [Action Retro]
has a video showing a Mac Classic clone usin... | 15 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780980",
"author": "Garth",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T18:53:35",
"content": "Wow, that is so cool. I have seen many of these old portable TVs at flea markets and thought that they would make a cool retro-pi enclosure. Too bad there wasn’t any way to adjust the CRT yoke better with t... | 1,760,371,839.46944 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/programming-ada-designing-a-lock-free-ring-buffer/ | Programming Ada: Designing A Lock-Free Ring Buffer | Maya Posch | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Software Development"
] | [
"ada",
"software development"
] | Ring buffers are incredibly useful data structures that allow for data to be written and read continuously without having to worry about where the data is being written to or read from. Although they present a continuous (ring) buffer via their API, internally a definitely finite buffer is being maintained. This makes ... | 7 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780961",
"author": "beadon",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T17:59:49",
"content": "I’ve used this great little guide on a similar lock-free implementation for single-producer / single-consumer in C –https://embedjournal.com/implementing-circular-buffer-embedded-c/thought I might share he... | 1,760,371,839.278837 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/foliodeck-squeezes-a-writerdeck-into-a-planner/ | Foliodeck Squeezes A Writerdeck Into A Planner | Navarre Bartz | [
"Cyberdecks"
] | [
"cyberdeck",
"distraction free",
"eink",
"writerdeck"
] | When it comes to writing, sometimes a computer or smartphone is just too distracting to keep on task. [vagabondvivant] found this to be the case and rolled their own distraction-free writing tool, the
Foliodeck
.
With the increasing availability of parts for cyberdecks, it’s not too surprising to see we’re seeing the e... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780829",
"author": "Joe Jansen",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T12:14:17",
"content": "My 50+ year old fingers hurt just watching the video…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6780861",
"author": "Egghead Larsen",
"timestamp": "... | 1,760,371,838.932053 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/a-brief-history-of-alphasmart/ | A Brief History Of AlphaSmart | Navarre Bartz | [
"Peripherals Hacks"
] | [
"AlphaSmart",
"AlphaSmart NEO",
"education",
"history",
"portable computer",
"word processor"
] | There are a handful of gadgets that do one thing so well that they become cult classics long after the company that made them has moved on or closed up shop. [This Does Not Compute] takes us through the history of the AlphaSmart word processor which started as an educational tool, but finds itself in many a writer’s ba... | 18 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780670",
"author": "D",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T20:05:21",
"content": "A 68000-style CPU running at 33mhz is more horsepower than I expected. That potentially exceeds the (desktop) Mac LC II that they were competing against in my public school. But they presumably don’t play Orego... | 1,760,371,839.039782 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/hacker-tactic-multi-design-panels/ | Hacker Tactic: Multi-Design Panels | Arya Voronova | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"how-to",
"PCB Hacks",
"Slider"
] | [
"panel",
"PCB design"
] | Last time,
we talked about single-PCB-design panels
, all the cool aspects of it, including some cost savings and handling convenience. Naturally, you might wonder, and many did – can you put multiple different PCBs on a single panel? The answer is “yes, without a doubt!” The tool we used last time, KiKit, will not be ... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780602",
"author": "Cheburashka",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T17:16:56",
"content": "Thanks for the tip about Dirtypcbs!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780608",
"author": "Kirby",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T17:32... | 1,760,371,839.416296 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/a-soviet-cassette-recorder-receiving-some-love/ | A Soviet Cassette Recorder Receiving Some Love | Jenny List | [
"History",
"Repair Hacks"
] | [
"cassette deck",
"repair",
"USSR"
] | For those of us who lived in the capitalist west during the Cold War, there remains a fascination to this day about the Other Side. The propaganda we were fed as kids matched theirs in describing the awful things on the other side of the wall, something that wasn’t borne out when a decade or so later in the 1990s we me... | 40 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780575",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T15:52:59",
"content": "The icons on the “Play” and “Record” buttons are interesting!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780603",
"author... | 1,760,371,839.356925 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/an-antenna-to-throw-you-for-a-loop/ | An Antenna To Throw You For A Loop | Al Williams | [
"Featured",
"Radio Hacks",
"Reviews",
"Slider"
] | [
"antenna",
"loop antenna",
"shortwave"
] | It is one of Murphy’s laws, we think, that you can’t get great things when you need them. Back in the heyday of shortwave broadcasting, any of us would have given a week’s pay for even a low-end receiver today. Digital display? Memory? Digital filtering? These days, you have radios, and they aren’t terribly expensive, ... | 27 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780548",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T14:42:53",
"content": "I love all these colorful little loopholes designed to trick God on the shabbat, there’s so many of them. I wonder if using it as part of a radio would in any way violate its purpose. I’d have to consult a rab... | 1,760,371,839.230903 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/a-look-at-the-intel-n100-radxa-x4-sbc/ | A Look At The Intel N100 Radxa X4 SBC | Maya Posch | [
"Reviews"
] | [
"intel",
"intel N100",
"radxa",
"rp2040"
] | Recently Radxa released the X4, which is an SBC containing not only an N100 x86_64 SoC but also an RP2040 MCU connected to a Raspberry Pi-style double pin header. The Intel N100 is one of a range of Alder Lake-N SoCs which are based on a highly optimized version of the Skylake core, first released in 2015. These cores... | 19 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780501",
"author": "Djfjwhdg",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T11:56:37",
"content": "The spec sheet is…lacking. No specific chipsets. Why is that a potential issue? Because for something like nearly a decade Intel hasn’t been able to make a 2.5G ethernet card that works properly. They ke... | 1,760,371,839.104421 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/making-usb-blaster-clones-work-for-linux/ | Making USB Blaster Clones Work For Linux | Al Williams | [
"FPGA"
] | [
"altera blaster",
"cpld",
"fpga",
"vhdl"
] | The last time we checked in with [Downtown Doug Brown], he had some cheap Altera USB Blaster clones that didn’t want to work under Linux. The trick at that time was to change the device’s 24 MHz clock to 12 MHz. This month,
he’s found some different ones that don’t work
, but now the clock change doesn’t work. What’s t... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780616",
"author": "Charles Springer",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T17:48:59",
"content": "What is a USB Blaster? Aside from a sidearm in Galactic Patrol generally called a DeLameter.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780641",
... | 1,760,371,838.97415 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/re-imagining-telepresence-with-humanoid-robots-and-vr-headsets/ | Re-imagining Telepresence With Humanoid Robots And VR Headsets | Donald Papp | [
"Robots Hacks",
"Virtual Reality"
] | [
"humanoid robot",
"robotics",
"stereo camera",
"Teleoperation",
"telepresence",
"vr"
] | Don’t let the name of the
Open-TeleVision
project fool you; it’s a framework for improving telepresence and making robotic teleoperation far more intuitive than it otherwise would be. It accomplishes this in part by taking advantage of the remarkable technology packed into modern VR headsets like the Apple Vision Pro a... | 20 | 10 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780915",
"author": "eswan",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T16:00:30",
"content": "Okay. Now put one on the moon.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6781008",
"author": "ono",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T20:46:28",
... | 1,760,371,839.713496 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/undersea-cable-repair/ | Undersea Cable Repair | Dan Maloney | [
"Engineering",
"Featured",
"Original Art",
"Slider"
] | [
"boat",
"cable",
"internet",
"ocean",
"splicing",
"underwater"
] | The bottom of the sea is a mysterious and inaccessible place, and anything unfortunate enough to slip beneath the waves and into the briny depths might as well be on the Moon. But the bottom of the sea really isn’t all that far away. The average depth of the ocean is only about 3,600 meters, and even at its deepest, th... | 6 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780899",
"author": "Beowulf Shaeffer",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T15:21:22",
"content": "All those metal componentsandhigh voltage power? No wonder sharks bite them…Very interesting article!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "678108... | 1,760,371,839.553221 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/read-utility-meters-via-sdr-to-fill-out-smart-home-stats/ | Read Utility Meters Via SDR To Fill Out Smart Home Stats | Donald Papp | [
"green hacks",
"home hacks"
] | [
"home automation",
"homeassistant",
"RTL-SDR",
"smart meter",
"solar"
] | [Jeff Sandberg] has put a fair bit of effort into adding solar and battery storage with associated smarts to his home, but his energy usage statistics were incomplete. His solution was to
read data from the utility meter using RTL-SDR
to fill in the blanks. The results are good so far, and there’s no reason similar rea... | 21 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780815",
"author": "pigster6",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T11:18:13",
"content": "For those in Europe:https://github.com/wmbusmeters/wmbusmeters",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780820",
"author": "Iván Stepaniuk",
... | 1,760,371,839.772807 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/30/junk-bin-build-lets-you-test-fuel-injectors-on-the-cheap/ | Junk Bin Build Lets You Test Fuel Injectors On The Cheap | Dan Maloney | [
"Transportation Hacks"
] | [
"automotive",
"fuel",
"ice",
"injector",
"manifold",
"pump",
"rail",
"test stand"
] | Fiddle around with cars long enough and you’ll realize two things: first, anything beyond the simplest repairs will probably require some kind of specialized tool, and second, those tools can be prohibitively expensive. That doesn’t mean you’re out of luck, though, especially if you’ve got scrap galore and a DIY spirit... | 32 | 15 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780788",
"author": "Johnu",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T08:35:54",
"content": "I’ve built something very similar – TBH the injector driver can be a good old 555 in a variable pulsewidth configuration and a decent FET that can deal with the inductive kick, although Infineon do some nic... | 1,760,371,840.250483 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/building-the-unreleased-lemmings-arcade-cabinet-from-1991/ | Building The UnreleasedLemmingsArcade Cabinet From 1991 | Maya Posch | [
"Games",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"arcade",
"arcade cabinet",
"lemmings"
] | Back in the early 90s the world was almost graced with an arcade version of
Lemmings
, but after a few board revisions it was abandoned in 1991. Now the folk over at UK-based [RMC – The Cave] on YouTube have managed to not only get their mitts on a nearly finished
prototype board
, but have
also designed and built
a pe... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780799",
"author": "Rpol_404",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T09:44:53",
"content": "Let’s go!",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780853",
"author": "CJay",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T13:15:58",
"content": "Oh n... | 1,760,371,840.401723 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/saildrones-searching-the-sea-for-clues-to-hurricane-behavior/ | Saildrones Searching The Sea For Clues To Hurricane Behavior | Navarre Bartz | [
"drone hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"autonomous saiboat",
"hurricane",
"sail",
"sail wing",
"sailboat",
"sailing",
"sails",
"weather forecast",
"wing sail"
] | Hurricanes can cause widespread destruction, so early forecasting of their strength is important to protect people and their homes. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is using
saildrones to get better data
from inside these monster storms.
Rising ocean temperatures due to climate change are c... | 26 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780744",
"author": "irox",
"timestamp": "2024-07-30T02:29:06",
"content": "Great to sea SailDrone getting attention (and ocean tech in general).",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6780767",
"author": "TG",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,371,840.176322 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/getting-linux-process-list-without-forking-using-just-a-bash-script/ | Getting Linux Process List Without Forking Using Just A Bash Script | Maya Posch | [
"how-to",
"Software Hacks"
] | [
"bash",
"shell script"
] | The
ps
command is extremely useful when you want to get some quick information on active system processes (hence the name), especially followed by piping it into grep and kin for some filtering. One gotcha is of course that
ps
doesn’t run in the current shell process, but is forked off into its own process, so what if ... | 16 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780721",
"author": "Christian",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T23:34:05",
"content": "Also applies to Android.ps on Android comes in via toybox and the output is not universal or even 100% parseable (good luck separating the columns for all cases). Going directly to /proc/{pid}/cmdline a... | 1,760,371,839.995744 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/28/amd-returns-to-1996-with-zen-5s-two-block-ahead-branch-predictor/ | AMD Returns To 1996 With Zen 5’s Two-Block Ahead Branch Predictor | Maya Posch | [
"Engineering"
] | [
"amd",
"branch prediction"
] | An interesting finding in fields like computer science is that much of what is advertised as new and innovative was actually pilfered from old research papers submitted to ACM and others. Which is not to say that this is necessarily a bad thing, as many of such ideas were not practical at the time. Case in point the ne... | 14 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780233",
"author": "Dan",
"timestamp": "2024-07-28T08:45:18",
"content": "More importantly, have they thought about how to protect it against speculative execution attacks?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780237",
"a... | 1,760,371,840.113407 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/27/print-your-own-magnetic-connector/ | Print Your Own Magnetic Connector | Al Williams | [
"Parts"
] | [
"3d print",
"magnet"
] | If you have a late-model laptop, you’ve probably seen how the chargers magnetically snap into place. In theory, this should be easy to recreate for your own purposes. But why reinvent the wheel when [DarthKaker] has already
done the work for you
— assuming you only need two conductors.
The 3D-printed shells take the us... | 22 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780214",
"author": "Alyx",
"timestamp": "2024-07-28T05:49:18",
"content": "Late-model laptops use USB-C (the good ones TB4)…",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780238",
"author": "Ewald",
"timestamp": "2024-07-2... | 1,760,371,840.309493 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/27/the-bappr-keeps-your-addressable-led-system-cool/ | The BAPPR Keeps Your Addressable LED System Cool | Alexander Rowsell | [
"hardware",
"LED Hacks"
] | [
"addressable leds",
"buck converter",
"led strip",
"Neopixels",
"rgb",
"switching power supply"
] | We all love a nice strip or grid of addressable LEDs. It can add flair or an artistic touch to many projects, and it can make gaming computers look extra 1337. However, providing enough current to a long strip of addressable LEDs can sometimes be difficult. Often a separate voltage rail is needed to supply enough juice... | 17 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780194",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2024-07-28T03:27:04",
"content": "Is BAPPR an acronym?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780218",
"author": "The Mariday",
"timestamp": "2... | 1,760,371,840.059132 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/27/midi-controller-in-a-cubic-inch/ | MIDI Controller In A Cubic Inch | Bryan Cockfield | [
"Musical Hacks"
] | [
"arduino",
"attiny85",
"controller",
"midi",
"music",
"smallest",
"synthesizer"
] | MIDI as a standard has opened up a huge world to any musician willing to use a computer to generate or enhance their playing and recording. Since the 80s, it has it has revolutionized the way music is produced and performed, allowing for seamless integration of digital instruments, automation of complex sequences, and ... | 3 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780158",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"timestamp": "2024-07-27T23:19:14",
"content": "Nice!Add a couple of antennas to make it a theremin.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6780735",
"author": "shod",
... | 1,760,371,840.350852 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/27/need-many-thin-parts-try-multi-material-stack-printing/ | Need Many Thin Parts? Try Multi-material Stack Printing | Elliot Williams | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d printing",
"layers",
"multimaterial",
"stack printing"
] | Admittedly it’s a bit of a niche application, but if you need lots of flat 3D printed objects, one way to go about it is to print them in a stack and separate them somehow. An old(er) solution is to use a non-extruding “ironing” step between each layer, which makes them easier to pull apart. But another trick is to use... | 9 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780259",
"author": "Brant Wedel",
"timestamp": "2024-07-28T10:04:44",
"content": "Oh! This could also be used for better bed adhesion and part removal.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6780270",
"author": "elwing",
"time... | 1,760,371,840.51804 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/27/a-history-of-internet-outages/ | A History Of Internet Outages | Al Williams | [
"History",
"internet hacks"
] | [
"CrowdStrike",
"internet outages",
"submarine cables"
] | We heard a story that after the recent hurricane, a man noted that while the house was sweltering hot because the power was still out, his kids were more anxious for the internet to come back online. The Internet is practically a basic necessity for most people, but as you may have noticed with the recent CrowdStrike d... | 31 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780070",
"author": "make piece not war",
"timestamp": "2024-07-27T17:09:11",
"content": "Perhaps he’s flossing.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780078",
"author": "The Commenter Formerly Known As Ren",
"times... | 1,760,371,840.471142 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/27/hacker-olympics/ | Hacker Olympics | Elliot Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Rants",
"Slider"
] | [
"newsletter",
"olympics",
"Rant"
] | The opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics is going on today. It’s an over-the-top presentation meant to draw people into sport. And for the next few weeks, we’ll be seeing people from all across the world competing in their chosen physical activities. There will be triumph and defeat, front-runners who nonetheless la... | 26 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780048",
"author": "Alphatek",
"timestamp": "2024-07-27T15:09:36",
"content": "Isn’t leet coding the equivalent of the Olympics? Specialisation in one pointless activity, achievement purely by repetition, and not being able to apply the skills to other areas.",
"parent_id": nul... | 1,760,371,840.660303 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/28/the-bivacor-total-artificial-heart-a-maglev-bridge-to-life/ | The BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart: A Maglev Bridge To Life | Maya Posch | [
"Lifehacks",
"Medical Hacks"
] | [
"artificial heart",
"total artificial heart"
] | The BiVACOR THA hooked up with the CTO Dianiel Timms in the background. (Credit: BiVACOR)
Outside of the brain, the heart is probably the organ that you miss the most when it ceases to function correctly. Unfortunately, as we cannot grow custom replacement hearts yet, we have to keep heart patients alive long enough fo... | 28 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780452",
"author": "DocB",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T05:14:30",
"content": "This is cool but it reminds me how much I want them to make artificial joints that don’t try to 1:1 copy natural joints. Artificial knees still use a metal ball on a plastic disk, from what I understand, wea... | 1,760,371,840.736006 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/28/youve-got-the-portable-radio-now-what-about-the-antenna/ | You’ve Got The Portable Radio, Now What About The Antenna? | Jenny List | [
"Radio Hacks"
] | [
"antenna",
"end fed half wave",
"QRP"
] | There’s an old saying in the amateur radio community that when it comes to antennas all you need is a piece of wet string. This may be a little fanciful, but it’s certainly true that an effective antenna can be made with surprisingly little in the way of conductor. It’s something [Evan Pratten VZ3ZZA] demonstrates ampl... | 10 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780448",
"author": "Bruce Perens K6BP",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T04:00:51",
"content": "Hey, I haven’t measured it. But I would imagine that the capacitance between those two wires is really high at RF. It might be that just one wire at the longer length works as well.",
"paren... | 1,760,371,841.063547 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/28/hackaday-links-july-28-2024/ | Hackaday Links: July 28, 2024 | Dan Maloney | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Hackaday links",
"Slider"
] | [
"alexa",
"amazon",
"boston dynamics",
"cloud",
"community college",
"ddos",
"dog",
"google",
"hackaday links",
"IoT",
"license plates",
"mit",
"robot",
"technican",
"tower climbing",
"Wind turbine",
"wiz"
] | What is this dystopia coming to when one of the world’s largest tech companies can’t find a way to sufficiently monetize a nearly endless stream of personal data coming from its army of high-tech privacy-invading robots? To the surprise of almost nobody,
Amazon is rolling out a paid tier to their Alexa service
in an at... | 14 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780399",
"author": "Zai1208",
"timestamp": "2024-07-28T23:03:18",
"content": "I saw DDDoS and then saw dog, and thought DDoS through computers on dogs? My prediction was accurate enough, albeit they are robot dogs",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
... | 1,760,371,840.825045 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/28/an-rc-tracked-robot-without-the-pain/ | An RC Tracked Robot, Without The Pain | Jenny List | [
"Robots Hacks"
] | [
"3D printed robot",
"raspberry pi",
"robot"
] | Small robots can be found at all levels from STEM toys for kids all the way through to complex hacker projects. Somewhere along that line between easy enough for anyone to build and interesting enough for hackers lies
the PlayCar
, from [ComfySpace]. It’s a small build-it-yourself tracked robot that’s controlled from y... | 13 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780371",
"author": "GarberPark",
"timestamp": "2024-07-28T20:38:27",
"content": "Very nice but for educational expandablity its hard to beathttps://hackaday.com/2024/03/06/the-16-pcb-robot/",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "678... | 1,760,371,840.873997 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/28/a-demo-party-on-a-chip/ | A Demo Party On A Chip | Jenny List | [
"Art",
"hardware"
] | [
"ASIC",
"demoscene",
"tiny tapeout"
] | The demoscene has provided our community with its artistic outlet since the first computers which could handle graphics, and has stayed at the forefront of technology all the way. For all that though, there’s a frontier it hasn’t yet entirely conquered, which exists in the realm of silicon. To address this cones the ev... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780359",
"author": "DerAxeman",
"timestamp": "2024-07-28T19:33:40",
"content": "About time hardware hackers get to show off.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6780379",
"author": "lol",
"timestamp": "2024-07-28T20:57:29",... | 1,760,371,841.019286 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/28/printed-portable-computer-inspired-by-the-classics/ | Printed Portable Computer Inspired By The Classics | Tom Nardi | [
"computer hacks",
"Raspberry Pi"
] | [
"40% keyboard",
"luggable",
"ortholinear keyboard",
"portable computer"
] | These days, laptop computers are all more or less the same, at least externally. Some are thicker than others, they might come in different colors, or with a 360° hinge that lets you flip the screen around the back and use it as a tablet, but overall they’ve all got the same shape and proportions. The industry, and ind... | 4 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780445",
"author": "Mr Name Required",
"timestamp": "2024-07-29T03:01:45",
"content": "Nice project but it would only have taken a little extra effort to put rounded corners on the case housings.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id"... | 1,760,371,841.116264 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/28/low-gravity-playground-looks-highly-entertaining-and-useful/ | Low-Gravity Playground Looks Highly Entertaining (and Useful) | Kristina Panos | [
"Art"
] | [
"anti-gravity",
"counterweight"
] | With US astronauts scheduled to return to the Moon in 2026, it might be nice for them to really and truly know ahead of time what the gravity situation is going to be like. At 1/6th Earth’s gravity, the difference can be difficult to simulate.
But not anymore. French acrobatic artist [Bastien Dausse] has created
a cont... | 22 | 13 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780281",
"author": "Mikeselectricstuff",
"timestamp": "2024-07-28T12:00:50",
"content": "Colin Furze did something similar a while ago, without the arty-ness",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780375",
"author": "aki009... | 1,760,371,841.396307 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/27/oshw-model-rocket-kit-embraces-the-hexagon/ | OSHW Model Rocket Kit Embraces The Hexagon | Tom Nardi | [
"hardware",
"Toy Hacks"
] | [
"model",
"Open Hardware Certification",
"OSHWA",
"rocket"
] | If you’ve ever built a model rocket, you’ll know there’s not a whole lot to them. Essentially it’s a cardboard tube, a plastic nosecone, some fins, and a little clip that will keep it riding the launch rail as it accelerates off the pad. Extra points awarded if you add in a parachute, but strictly speaking, even that’s... | 22 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6780027",
"author": "Clara",
"timestamp": "2024-07-27T12:50:21",
"content": "Is this the pencil rocket from the Mother series?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780056",
"author": "concretedog",
"timestamp": "20... | 1,760,371,841.183622 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/27/george-washington-gets-cleaned-up-with-a-laser/ | George Washington Gets Cleaned Up With A Laser | Tom Nardi | [
"Art",
"Laser Hacks"
] | [
"art",
"laser",
"restoration",
"varnish"
] | Now, we wouldn’t necessarily call ourselves connoisseurs of fine art here at Hackaday. But we do enjoy watching [Julian Baumgartner]’s YouTube channel, where he documents the projects that he takes on as a professional conservator. Folks send in their dirty or damaged paintings, [Julian] works his magic, and the end re... | 5 | 3 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779962",
"author": "natuk",
"timestamp": "2024-07-27T08:41:01",
"content": "Great to see conservation articles here. The term used is often “conservator” instead of “conservationist”.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6780020",... | 1,760,371,841.228307 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/26/vintage-ribbon-cable-repair-saves-poqet-pc/ | Vintage Ribbon Cable Repair Saves Poqet PC | Jenny List | [
"Repair Hacks",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"poqet pc",
"repair",
"ribbon cable"
] | It sometimes seems as though computing power in your pocket is a relatively new phenomenon, but in fact there have been ultraportable computers since the 8-bit era. They started to become useful around the end of the 1980s though as enterprising manufacturers started cramming full-fat PC XTs into pocket form factors. O... | 19 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779952",
"author": "heastgun",
"timestamp": "2024-07-27T08:03:36",
"content": "*cable replacement",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6779965",
"author": "NFM",
"timestamp": "2024-07-27T08:44:58",
"content": "I did a si... | 1,760,371,841.289664 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/26/analyzing-feature-learning-in-artificial-neural-networks-and-neural-collapse/ | Analyzing Feature Learning In Artificial Neural Networks And Neural Collapse | Maya Posch | [
"Artificial Intelligence"
] | [
"artificial intelligence",
"machine vision"
] | Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are commonly used for machine vision purposes, where they are tasked with object recognition. This is accomplished by taking a multi-layer network and using a training data set to configure the weights associated with each ‘neuron’. Due to the complexity of these ANNs for non-trivial d... | 9 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779922",
"author": "Chris",
"timestamp": "2024-07-27T04:10:09",
"content": "I’ve been really fascinated with understanding how different parts of a neutral network contribute to a network as a whole. In my opinion the easiest way to start to understand the different parts of a netw... | 1,760,371,841.338629 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/26/your-quicktake-camera-and-your-modern-pc/ | Your QuickTake Camera And Your Modern PC | Jenny List | [
"digital cameras hacks"
] | [
"apple",
"java",
"quicktake"
] | An object of desire back in the mid-1990s might have been Apple’s QuickTake camera. In a form factor not unlike a monocular it packed a 640×480 digital camera, the images from which could be downloaded to a computer via a serial cable. A quarter century later it’s a great retro camera for the enthusiast, but both the s... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779892",
"author": "UT",
"timestamp": "2024-07-27T01:51:34",
"content": "So the Java app only works on Mac or Windows, it doesn’t work on Linux?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6779924",
"author": "Sunoo",
"ti... | 1,760,371,841.44944 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/26/electromagnetic-actuator-mimics-muscle/ | Electromagnetic Actuator Mimics Muscle | Lewin Day | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"3d print",
"3d printed",
"actuator",
"electromagnet",
"electromagnetic",
"magnet",
"magnetic actuator"
] | Most electromagnetic actuators are rotating motors, or some variation on the theme, like servos. However, it’s possible to do linear actuation with electomagnetics, too. [Adrian Perez] demonstrates this with Linette,
his design of a linear actuator that he was inspired to build by the structure of our own muscles
.
The... | 11 | 6 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779833",
"author": "Paul",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T20:49:54",
"content": "“… linear actuator that he was inspired to build by the structure of our own muscles.”If it was truly inspired by muscles, it would be much more like a linear stepper motor than the solenoid it is.The video ... | 1,760,371,841.499569 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/26/ask-hackaday-is-shortwave-on-life-support/ | Ask Hackaday: Is Shortwave On Life Support? | Al Williams | [
"Featured",
"Radio Hacks",
"Rants",
"Slider"
] | [
"shortwave"
] | A QSL Card from Radio Moscow probably got many 14-year-olds on government watch lists. (Public domain)
Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple receiver, you could listen to the world. Some of it, of course, was entertainment, and much of it was propaganda of one sort or a... | 123 | 45 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779776",
"author": "scott_tx",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T17:19:02",
"content": "That’s the price of progress",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6779787",
"author": "Joshua",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T17:57:41",
... | 1,760,371,842.272517 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/26/hackaday-podcast-episode-281-metal-clay-desiccants-silica-gel-and-keeping-filament-dry/ | Hackaday Podcast Episode 281: Metal Clay, Desiccants, Silica Gel, And Keeping Filament Dry | Kristina Panos | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Podcasts"
] | [
"Hackaday Podcast"
] | This week on the Podcast, it’s Kristina’s turn to bloviate alongside Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams. First up in the news: our fresh new contest has drawn three entries already! That’s right,
the 2024 Tiny Games Challenge is underway
. You have until September 10th to show us your best tiny game, whether that means ti... | 2 | 2 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779821",
"author": "JMR",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T20:06:42",
"content": "You didn’t talk about the best part of the Big Clive desiccant video. The comments! Excellent conversation about zeolite their and how it can outperform silica gel.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
... | 1,760,371,841.598377 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/26/you-can-program-avrs-from-the-commodore-64/ | You Can Program AVRs From The Commodore 64 | Lewin Day | [
"Microcontrollers",
"Retrocomputing"
] | [
"AVR",
"c64",
"commodore 64",
"microcontroller"
] | These days, most of our microcontroller boards come with bootloaders so you can squirt hex into them straight over USB. However, you don’t
need
to do things this way. If you’re more old school, you can program your AVRs right from a Commodore 64.
[Linus Akesson] shows us how.
Programming an AVR isn’t that hard. By hold... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779766",
"author": "PPJ",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T16:30:47",
"content": "If you consider this could be done much easier and faster with modern SBC that he surely had at hand this challenge is even more impressive.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
... | 1,760,371,841.661256 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/26/this-week-in-security-evilvideo-crowdstrike-and-insecure-boot/ | This Week In Security: EvilVideo, Crowdstrike, And InSecure Boot | Jonathan Bennett | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Security Hacks"
] | [
"CrowdStrike",
"EvilVideo",
"This Week in Security"
] | First up this week is the story of
EvilVideo
, a clever telegram exploit that disguises an APK as a video file. The earliest record we have of this exploit is
on June 6th when it was advertised on a hacking forum
.
Researchers at ESET discovered a demo of the exploit, and were able to disclose it to Telegram on June 26... | 12 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779739",
"author": "Aeiou",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T14:55:00",
"content": "Isn’t the ‘MSFT retiree’ featured video a scammer?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6779760",
"author": "Dingbat",
"timestamp": "2024-... | 1,760,371,841.81457 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/26/building-a-keychain-wii-looks-possible/ | Building A Keychain Wii Looks Possible | Lewin Day | [
"Nintendo Wii Hacks"
] | [
"console",
"nintendo wii",
"portable console",
"trimmed",
"wii",
"wii hacks"
] | The original Nintendo Wii was not a
big
console, per se, but you could never hope to fit one in your pocket. Or…could you? As it turns out, console modders [Wesk] and [Yveltal] reckon they have found a way to
make a functional Wii at the keychain scale!
The concept is called the Kawaii, and as you might expect, some sa... | 10 | 5 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779694",
"author": "clancydaenlightened",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T11:34:11",
"content": "You could make it fit in a smartphone if you just made a custom motherboardAnd add a video digitizer for LCDOr just run a 64bit emulator on octacore with 4GB and a better gpu",
"parent_id"... | 1,760,371,841.75524 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/26/can-cats-solve-puzzles/ | Can Cats Solve Puzzles? | Jenny List | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"animal behaviour",
"cat",
"cat toy"
] | Cats, to those of us who appreciate their company, are fascinating creatures, with their infinite curiosity and playfulness. [Makers Muse] has a pair of half-grown-up kittens, and set out to provide them with a plaything far better than those the market could offer.
The result is the Snak Attak
, a gravity puzzle maze ... | 29 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779671",
"author": "Marco",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T08:54:01",
"content": "Cats can solve any puzzle that can easily be solved by liberal application of violence.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6779677",
"author": "Zoe Na... | 1,760,371,842.023426 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/25/car-becomes-a-massive-bubble-machine/ | Car Becomes A Massive Bubble Machine | Lewin Day | [
"car hacks"
] | [
"bubble",
"bubble fluid",
"bubble machine",
"bubble wand",
"bubbles",
"car",
"soap bubble",
"soap bubbles"
] | You’ve probably seen street performers or family members making giant bubbles at some point in your life. But what if you could go ever bigger…even approaching a bubble of infinite length?
That’s precisely what [Engineezy] tried to do.
The common technique behind blowing big bubbles involves attaching a thick rope to t... | 13 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779670",
"author": "Bubbles",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T08:40:47",
"content": "I’ve been using this recipe for monster bubbles. I’m wondering if there has been any improvements? It’s pretty good though.1440 g water120 g fairy liquid soap60 g cornflour1 tbsp baking powder",
"pare... | 1,760,371,841.957865 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/25/a-robot-face-with-human-skin/ | A Robot Face With Human Skin | Navarre Bartz | [
"Robots Hacks",
"Science"
] | [
"biomimetic",
"biomimicry",
"biorobotics",
"humanoid",
"robot",
"soft robotics"
] | Many scifi robots have taken the form of their creators. In the increasingly blurry space between the biological and the mechanical, researchers have found a way to
affix human skin to robot faces
. [via
NewScientist
]
Previous attempts at affixing skin equivalent, “a living skin model composed of cells and extracellul... | 30 | 16 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779604",
"author": "Ostracus",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T02:53:56",
"content": "Fembots from the Six Million Dollar Man.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6779605",
"author": "Garth",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T02:... | 1,760,371,842.345186 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/25/cutting-an-iot-fan-free-of-the-cloud/ | Cutting An IoT Fan Free Of The Cloud | Lewin Day | [
"home hacks"
] | [
"cloud",
"dreo",
"fan",
"IoT"
] | The cloud is supposed
to make everything better.
You can control things remotely, with the aid of a benevolent corporation and their totally friendly servers. However, you might not
like
those servers, and you might prefer to take personal control of your hardware. If that’s the case, you might like to follow
the story... | 22 | 11 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779600",
"author": "Alan Sailer",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T01:18:33",
"content": "Sigh.The amount of brilliant work required to free this fan from the cloud is awesome. I mean this without irony.It also makes me really, really happy that I own fan that has an on/off switch. If I’m ... | 1,760,371,842.41052 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/25/3d-printed-rc-drift-car-comes-with-smoke-effects/ | 3D-Printed RC Drift Car Comes With Smoke Effects | Lewin Day | [
"3d Printer hacks"
] | [
"car",
"drift car",
"humidifier",
"humidifier module",
"R/C car"
] | Drift cars are cool, but they’re also expensive. If you don’t have money for endless tires, fuel, and engine rebuilds, you might like to get involved at the RC scale instead.
[Max Imagination] has just the build to get you started.
The design uses 3D printing for the majority of the chassis. Rigidity is front of mind, ... | 7 | 4 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779590",
"author": "PEBKAC",
"timestamp": "2024-07-26T00:43:22",
"content": "Is this an ad? Because that guy wants me to *buy* his 3d models.Not open source hardware… and that makes it substantially less interesting as an HAD article.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"r... | 1,760,371,842.457798 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/25/usb-c-powered-hotplate-is-not-for-food/ | USB-C Powered Hotplate Is Not For Food | Lewin Day | [
"Tool Hacks"
] | [
"hotplate",
"power",
"reflow",
"USB C"
] | Once upon a time, it was deemed mostly silly to try and schlep power from a computer’s ports. Then it was kind of amusing to do so with USB, and before you knew it, we were running whole laptops off what started out as a data connector. These days, it’s not unusual to run a soldering iron off USB-C, or, as [MarkTheQuas... | 18 | 8 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779515",
"author": "Piotrsko",
"timestamp": "2024-07-25T18:40:13",
"content": "It strikes me that back in the day, parallel ports and possibly serial also had access to a goodly amount of watts on one of the mostly un used pins.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replie... | 1,760,371,842.569819 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/25/linux-fu-failing-pipelines/ | Linux Fu: Failing Pipelines | Al Williams | [
"Hackaday Columns",
"Linux Hacks"
] | [
"bash",
"linux"
] | Bash is great for automating little tasks, but sometimes a little script you think will take a minute to write turns into a half hour or more. This is the story of one of those half-hour scripts.
I have too many 3D printers. In particular, I have three that are almost — but not exactly — the same, so each one has a sli... | 16 | 9 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779547",
"author": "Cyna",
"timestamp": "2024-07-25T20:29:18",
"content": "So, stop using Marlin?",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": [
{
"comment_id": "6779558",
"author": "Al Williams",
"timestamp": "2024-07-25T21:55:58",
... | 1,760,371,842.51139 | ||
https://hackaday.com/2024/07/25/a-simple-liquid-level-indicator-with-a-single-ic/ | A Simple Liquid Level Indicator With A Single IC | Lewin Day | [
"classic hacks",
"Parts"
] | [
"liquid level indicator",
"transistor",
"uln2003",
"water level indicator"
] | Often, the only liquid level indicator you need is your eyes, such as when looking at your cold beverage on a summer’s day. Other times, though, it’s useful to have some kind of indicator light that can tell you the same. [Hulk] shows us how to build one for a water tank
using a single IC and some cheap supporting comp... | 15 | 7 | [
{
"comment_id": "6779477",
"author": "shinsukke",
"timestamp": "2024-07-25T15:54:46",
"content": "Cool project, great if it solves a real problem at home.But yeah nah, this has been done to death.",
"parent_id": null,
"depth": 1,
"replies": []
},
{
"comment_id": "6779481",
"a... | 1,760,371,842.631351 |
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